FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Other Sciences Ethics and the Human Body 20 min
discover: Micah 6:8 offers a concise and powerful statement of the human calling before God: “What does the Lord require? Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly with God” (emphasis ...
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....
Relationships Labs and Community 12 min
discover: The following brainstorming activity requires students to think deeply about a topic or concept, rather than just skimming the surface, as a preparation for delving into a ...
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 ...
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 ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 15 min
discover: This activity raises the question for students of what virtues have to do with chemistry, making their assumptions explicit as a basis for further learning....
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 15 min
debrief: This repeats the initial activity to allow students to see whether their assumptions have shifted during their work on the activity map. ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 25 min
discover: This introductory activity guides students to consider what shalom is and how it may be related to studying chemistry. ...
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 ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 45 min
delve: This activity focuses on the virtues needed for collaborative scientific work. As students interact within collaborative processes, they will also learn the key concepts that are necessary ...
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 ...
Relationships Homework
discover: This homework activity can be used to support work in class on the nature of science. It engages students in discussion with an adult about changes in ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 90 min
delve: This activity engages students in examining the history and drama surrounding DNA's discovery. It gives them the opportunity to analyze the motives of scientists, observe and critique ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 30 min
delve: High school is a perfect time to talk about driving safety as many students are just learning to drive and/or getting their license. How does an ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 35 min
delve: This activity engages students in considering how our knowledge about the EM spectrum is connected to promoting or eroding shalom. ...
Bible God and Natural Causes
debrief: This activity provides a substantial assessment of learning from the previous activities in the "God and Natural Causes" Activity Map while fostering family conversation about faith and ...
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 ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 20 min
discover: This activity introduces a basic concept of ecological science through a physical representation of how ecosystems are related. It introduces the ideas of interconnectedness and care, helping ...
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 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 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 ...
Relationships Labs and Community
delve: These activities can be completed by individual lab groups or as whole class challenges. These challenges can be guided or very open-ended depending on the level of ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in a practical, experiential introduction to the concept of a watershed, and to how pollutants can travel within a watershed. It also helps ...
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 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 Science, Technology, and Service 25 min
discover: This activity engages students in reflecting on reasons for seeking knowledge. It invites students to see compassion and reconciliation as possible goals for learning that relate to ...
Relationships Labs and Community 20 min
discover: Forming lab groups that work together for an extended period of time can help build community within a science class and also provide a context within which ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: Students conduct a lab and then are asked to see it differently in terms of the resources used and the implications for how we think about chemistry ...
Chemistry Chemistry, Resources, and Faith 60 min
delve: This activity engages students in working with limited resources during lab work and exploring the connections between choices of resources and character....
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. ...
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 uncovers how students see divine action in both the laws of nature and in God’s more surprising activities. It engages students in articulating and ...
Physics Newton’s Laws 10 min
debrief: This is a follow-up to Activity 1: Pre-Test. It uses a repeat of the survey from that activity to gather information on how students see divine action and ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Relationships Labs and Community
delve: This semester-long assignment prompts students to see how the concepts of a science course connect to their everyday life, to reflect on their own learning, and to ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This semester-long assignment prompts students to see how the concepts of a science course connect to their everyday life, to reflect on their own learning, and to ...
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 25 min
discover: This introductory activity guides students to consider what shalom is and how it may be related to science....
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 5 min
debrief: In this activity, students show their progress in seeing how learning physics relates to shalom and discernment by sharing their thinking with others throughout the year....
Physics Science, Technology, and Service HW + 90 min
debrief: This concluding activity allows students to reflect on what they have learned as it relates to shalom and love for others and to demonstrate their understanding. ...
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
debrief: This activity is designed to help students connect what they have learned about stewardship with their own sphere of influence....
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 ...
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 ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors
delve: This is a major project activity to be conducted over a period of time. It engages your students with students in another school upstream or downstream from ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 God and Natural Causes 10 min
discover: This short introductory activity aims to get students thinking about the relationship between the scientific language used to describe natural processes, and other kinds of language, including ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...