FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 30 min
delve: This more academically challenging activity looks at differences in the early church concerning the best way to interpret the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis 1. It ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
delve: This activity actively engages students in considering different perspectives on a biblical text by having them interview readers with different training and interests. It aims to help ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: The goal of this activity is to have students read and respond to a variety of Bible passages that talk about our physical bodies, understanding that they ...
Bible Resurrection 30 min
delve: This is the first of a pair of activities focusing on the beliefs of ancient Jews regarding what happens after death. It aims to help students see ...
Bible Resurrection 30 min
delve: This activity continues Activity 4: The Bible and the Afterlife, Part 1, by focusing on the deuterocanonical writings and the New Testament. It helps students to see the range ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 10 min
discover: This is a short starter activity intended to get students thinking about whether events can have multiple causes. Using the example of boiling water, you will encourage ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 20 min
delve: This activity is intended to get students thinking about how multiple levels of description, scientific and non-scientific, can coexist....
Physics Newton’s Laws 15 min
debrief: The word "law" implies a rule that cannot be broken. What do we mean when we refer to a pattern in nature, such as inertia, as a ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 60 min
delve: The relationship between faith and science is not just about evaluating scientific and theological claims. Another connection happens when the language of faith draws imagery from the ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 25 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the structure of Psalm 113 and considering how its picture of God relates to the expansion of our picture of the universe ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 30 min
delve: This activity focuses on the Bible’s teaching of a new creation in which the wounds of the old creation are healed, and asks students to see ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 15 min
discover: The three-word summary "creation, fall, redemption" is one way among many to capture the overall narrative movement of the Bible. Although limited, it succinctly captures a key ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 40 min
delve: When did death enter the world? How does the theological claim that death is part of the fall relate to the scientific claim that death has been ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 30-45 min
delve: Students will each design their own plot of land and then connect their plots to make up a watershed. This leads to a definition of “watershed” and ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 20 min
debrief: This short concluding exercise engages students in actively reviewing the exploration of creation as a drama. It creates an opportunity to assess students’ understanding and also invites ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: This activity engages students in reflection on the roles of scientific knowledge, ethical reflection, and empathy in decision making when our decisions affect the bodily well-being of ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
debrief: This activity provides a substantial assessment of learning from the previous activities in this map that also fosters family conversation about faith and science questions....
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 40 min
delve: This activity engages students in exploring the concept of cultural accommodation and its relevance to understanding how the Bible speaks about the natural world....
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 30 min
delve: This activity engages students in exploring a series of connections between the creation passages in Genesis and the descriptions of the tabernacle, helping them see how a ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 40 min
delve: Sometimes we read Genesis 1-2 and conclude this is “THE creation account” of the Bible. A look at other creation accounts in Scripture suggests otherwise. Comparisons with ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 10 min
discover: This short introductory activity engages students in reflecting on the differences between metaphorical, literal, and scientific descriptions of the same events, and on how these differences inform ...
Bible Resurrection 45 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the four Gospel writers’ stories of the resurrection of Jesus and considering whether the differences between them undermine their trustworthiness. It ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 40 min
delve: This activity helps students see that “Word of God” refers to a range of things in Scripture, including God’s sustaining the processes of the natural world. ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 20 min
discover: This is a starter activity to introduce the Bible’s language of stewardship. It helps students see how faith, stewardship, and science can connect....
Bible Resurrection 10 min
discover: This first activity engages students in considering how important the resurrection really is to the Christian faith. It invites them to view their own assumptions in comparison ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 10 min
discover: What if we started our discussion of creation with John 1 instead of Genesis 1? This activity helps students to see that theological conversations about origins need not focus ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 15 min
debrief: This activity asks whether students’ understanding of creation and the centrality of Christ has expanded. Students will discuss how their thinking has grown as a result of ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 20 min
debrief: This activity offers a briefer assessment of students’ understanding of the idea of multiple causality in biblical narrative explored in the activity Why Not Both?. It asks ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 5 min
delve: This activity focuses on the early church's decision to welcome Gentiles into "the Way" of Christ without demanding either circumcision or strict Torah observance, resulting in diversity ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 10 min
discover: This is a short introductory activity designed to help students identify what they already know about the relationship of the Bible to discussions of faith and science. ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 15 min
debrief: This activity revisits the introductory activity A Map in order to assess student learning and make students’ learning visible to them....
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 35 min
debrief: This activity is a follow-up to Activity 3: Bodies and Callings. It asks students to reflect back on their earlier ideas and to write an essay connecting Micah 6:8 ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 10 min
discover: This activity explores why we think of various events in terms of God's participation in creation rather than in the two opposing categories of miracles and natural ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 50 min
delve: This activity focuses on the question of how Moabites are viewed by Israel in the Bible — are they enemies only, or can they become part of God's ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 20 min
discover: Christian theology teaches that God is responsible for all that happens in the created order, whether God's role is obvious or veiled. Contrary to the common assumption ...
Bible Unity and Diversity
delve: This activity asks students to investigate one of Paul’s missionary journeys. There are several possible approaches, such as designing a poster or display or video, constructing ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 25 min
discover: The story of Pentecost helps us see that diversity is central to the gospel and its proclamation and prompts us to ask what diversity is for. This ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 45 min
delve: This activity engages students in thinking about how biblical language relates to scientific language. It asks them to think about why the use of language in the ...
Physics Newton’s Laws
discover: This brief, repeated activity seeks to engage students in thinking about how the regularity of natural processes reflects God's consistent, gracious governance of creation rather than God's ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 45 min
delve: This activity explores in more detail the biblical picture of humanity’s relationship to the natural world and of the call to stewardship. It engages students in ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in an analysis of the changing relationship in the early church between both Jews and Samaritans, and Eunuchs and Gentiles. It focuses on ...
Bible The Drama of Creation and Evolution 20 min
delve: This activity explores the question of whether the idea of evolution necessarily implies that God could not be involved in the universe. It helps students see that ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in learning about one community’s efforts to bring science, education, faith, and action together to improve conditions in a watershed. It encourages ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith
delve: This activity can be used as a continuation of and to augment the learning in Hebrew in Science Class?. It invites students to see the interconnections between ...
Bible Resurrection 35 min
delve: This lesson explores the apostles’ reactions to hearing about the resurrection, and how their responses developed into a certainty that hold firm even in the face of ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith
debrief: This activity builds upon the Fruits of Stewardship activity and can also draw from various other activities in this Activity Map. It requires that students reflect on ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom
discover: This activity introduces the idea that there are connections linking careful observation of the natural world, science learning, and the biblical call to wisdom and worship. It ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 30 min
discover: This activity is about the meaning of giving names to things, which is a basic human impulse, as well as a part of scientific inquiry. It uses ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 30 min
delve: This activity engages students in comparing current cultural images of wise people with the concept of wisdom presented in Proverbs 8. It also invites them to see how ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 15 min
discover: This is a quick introductory activity intended to get students thinking about whether events can have multiple causes. It uses the story of a game-winning free kick ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 45 min
delve: This activity introduces students to the concept of multiple causality. It is relevant when thinking about faith and science because of its connection to the question of ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 35 min
debrief: This activity engages students in composing a psalm in light of what they have been learning about the relationship of biblical and scientific language. It offers an ...