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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Relationships Labs and Community 5 min
debrief: This brief closing activity allows students to reflect on the virtues and scientific concepts covered during a class period. Engaging students in brief reflection, both on the ...
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 Stewardship, Science, and Faith
delve: This activity seeks to engage students in reflection on their enjoyment of the creation, in order to forge a bond that leads to a desire to explore, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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....
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 ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 10 min
discover: This activity engages students in thinking about their earliest memories of water. It offers a brief introduction to learning about water, grounding the topic in students’ personal ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 45 min
delve: This activity engages students in physically exploring the path taken by rainwater as it travels across school property, and asks them to consider the pollutants it gathers ...
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 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 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....
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 ...
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....
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 ...
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 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 ...
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. ...
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....
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 ...
Relationships Water, Ecology, and Neighbors 20 min
discover: This introductory activity uses a gallon bucket to help students to see water as a rare and precious resource. It engages students in the early stages of ...
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 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 ...
Relationships Labs and Community 15 min
debrief: This brief activity offers a way to wrap up a unit, semester, or the entire year by reflecting on how virtue has been present or absent in ...
Physics Science, Technology, and Service 30 min
delve: After solving projectile motion problems using kinematics equations, students will reflect on the different applications of this knowledge and see how applied physics knowledge can be connected ...
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 ...
Relationships Homework
delve: This is a short introductory activity designed to focus students on how they can encourage and serve those younger than themselves in the context of science learning. ...
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....
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 Homework
discover: This is a short homework activity that engages students in reflecting on their own learning processes, some common obstacles to understanding, and the relationship of virtues to ...
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 ...
Bible Wonder and Wisdom 10 min
discover: This is a scene-setting activity designed to get students thinking about wonder, wisdom, science, and faith....
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 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 Resurrection 45 min
debrief: This concluding activity offers writing tasks that give students an opportunity to draw together what they have learned and respond personally. It both tests understanding of the ...
Biology Motives, Virtues, and Science: The Story of DNA 50 min
debrief: Activity 2: Why Do Science? and Activity 4: The DNA Drama focused on famous scientists’ motivations for doing science. This activity turns attention to students’ own thoughts, desires, and ...
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 ...