FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
Bible Resurrection 15 min
discover: This lesson attempts to raise students’ awareness of the controversial nature of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. For reasons that often claim to be grounded in science, ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 40 min
delve: This activity introduces Newton's third law of motion, action - reaction, and considers how this law shows God's care. It engages students in learning through examples and ...
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 ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 40 min
debrief: This activity can be used as a test essay or take-home assignment to follow up and assess learning from Activity 4: The DNA Drama. Students engage in critical ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity engages students in lab work to help them connect the idea of a closed system to analysis of chemical reactions. It also raises the question ...
Bible Resurrection HW + 30 min
delve: This activity allows students to engage in more detail with some of the key arguments advanced in favor of the resurrection and to consider the kinds of ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 20 min
discover: This activity for science or Bible class engages students in thinking about what makes us accept things as true. What constitutes evidence for us? Students will consider ...
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 ...
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 ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity focuses on the virtues needed for collaborative scientific work and offers practice in cooperation and team-building. As students interact within collaborative processes, they also learn ...
Physics Newton’s Laws HW + 30 min
debrief: This activity draws together more than one dimension of teaching FASTly by asking students to consider the relationship of faith to both scientific ideas and collaborative practice ...
Bible Unity and Diversity 25 min
debrief: This activity connects what students learned about differences and unity from previous activities to a contemporary faith and science controversy. It engages students in actively thinking outside ...
Bible God and Natural Causes 35 min
debrief: This activity uses two New Testament passages to engage students in exploring Christian virtues and their relevance to the practice of science. It encourages them to see ...
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 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 ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body
debrief: This activity involves a cumulative or final project that allows students to use what they have been learning to investigate an ethical issue of their own choice ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 60 min
delve: The Discover activities started students thinking about the role of science, faith, and ethics in relation to the human body. This activity engages students in working with ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 30 min
delve: Newton believed that the mathematical patterns he saw in nature showed God's greatness, but atheists later claimed those patterns made God unnecessary. This activity introduces Newton's second ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity looks at some of the complexities of species interactions and the effect they have on the environment, using the example of wolf populations at Yellowstone ...
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. ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 10 min
delve: Learning more about how faith relates to science is not just a cognitive task; teaching and learning FASTly can affect important relationships. Students may be concerned about ...
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 ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 30 min
delve: This activity introduces Newton's first law of motion, inertia, and connects it with the question of whether God is only active when miracles happen. It goes a ...
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 Resurrection 25 min
delve: This activity engages students in considering how we know things and form beliefs in multiple ways. It aims to help students see how our way of knowing ...
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 ...
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 ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 30 min
debrief: In this activity students create a short podcast to share with parents and relatives. The podcast is intended to invite the wider community into faith-affirming science learning ...
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 ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 20 min
debrief: Conversations with parents at parent-teacher conferences provide an opportunity to communicate the educational vision of your program and help parents see in new ways how their son ...
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 ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
discover: This activity (which also appears in the Activity Map on Science, Technology, and Service) introduces distinctions between basic science, applied science, and technology, and engages students in ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
discover: This activity introduces distinctions between basic science, applied science, and technology, and engages students in exploring how these relate to faith-informed motivations. Goals Students will understand the ...
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 ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 40 min
discover: This activity involves using a survey tool to elicit the views of both students and parents about faith and science questions. It will help you and your ...
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 ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith
delve: Students analyze the trash from a class party and consider how trash accumulation relates to the idea of a closed system. They also step back to reflect ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 60 min
delve: The Discover activities started students thinking about the role of science, faith, and ethics in relation to the human body. This activity engages students in working with ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in generating examples of how the study of the human body relates to ethics, faith, and science. The activity helps students see that ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 20 min
delve: This activity engages students in learning about the concept of a closed system in the context of a laboratory experiment and helps them see how this concept ...
Bible Unity and Diversity
debrief: This concluding activity engages students in applying their learning to other contemporary disagreements, including other faith and science questions. It asks them to see such disagreements not ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 0:35
discover: This activity aims to engage students in thinking critically about why science is done, why people enjoy science, how it should be done, and the limitations of ...