FASTLY - Faith & Science Teaching
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 ...
Bible Stewardship, Science, and Faith 15 min
discover: This activity is designed to get students talking to their parents or another adult about the topic of stewardship....
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 ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity engages students in visually representing scientific information, and in imparting it to an adult conversation partner with an emphasis on both clarity and respectful, supportive ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 40 min
debrief: This review activity is appropriate for the end of a semester or a longer teaching sequence. It provides a communal way of reviewing material that creates interactions ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors
debrief: This activity engages students in visually representing scientific information, and teaching it to an adult conversation partner with an emphasis on both clarity, and respectful and supportive ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 15 min
delve: People disagree about some of the biggest questions connecting faith and science. Teaching and learning FASTly involves seeing these disagreements not just as a chance to win ...
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 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 ...
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 Unity and Diversity 25 min
discover: Students debate a random topic together and then step back to consider how we engage with one another about areas of disagreement....
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 Homework
debrief: This activity reviews in-class science learning and invests in strengthening relationships between students and a parent or another adult. It engages students in conducting demonstrations at home ...
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 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 Stewardship, Science, and Faith
debrief: This activity has students collaborate to create media content that informs viewers about stewardship problems and suggests changes in attitude and/or behavior....
Relationships Homework
debrief: This is a short homework activity for use at the beginning and end of a unit or topic in the science classroom. It engages students in observing ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community 120 min
delve: Homework, especially at the secondary level, can isolate students from parents and family, or involve parents mainly in the role of taskmaster or source of moral support. ...
Relationships Labs and Community
debrief: This activity provides a way of communally reviewing material in order to sustain the intensity of engagement longer than working in small groups and create interactions between ...
Relationships Labs and Community
debrief: This is an alternate version of Activity 7 that requires less movement but sustains intensity of engagement longer than working in small groups. It creates interactions between different ...
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 ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This activity engages individual students in investigating articles from online science news reporting, conducting a basic audit for initial signs of validity, and discussing with an adult ...
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 ...
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....
Relationships Labs and Community 30 min
discover: This quick, fun, and engaging activity is based on Tom Wujec's TED Talk Build a Tower, Build a Team. The focus here is not on learning science ...
School Context Engaging Parents and the Wider Community
discover: This activity engages students in sharing what they are learning with members of their family and asks them to consider how to communicate a sense of wonder. ...