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 Read More →
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 Read More →
A bibliography of all the books addressing the topic of questions of origins would be dauntingly long, and many of the books listed would be quite technical Read More →
This demonstration, in which a sample of water appears to burn, helps students to seeĀ that water purity is impossible to gauge with the naked eye, and Read More →
Dr. Ruth Bancewicz is a Senior Research Associate at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion at Cambridge University. Her purpose in writing God in the Lab: Read More →
This activity introduces the topic of pornography into the science classroom. It helps students see how a moral and social issue such as pornography can be connectedĀ Read More →
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 Read More →
This activity uses two New Testament passages to engageĀ students in exploring Christian virtuesĀ and their relevance to the practiceĀ of science. It encourages them to seeĀ Read More →
This activity revisits the questionnaire from the activityĀ Beliefs About Knowledge. It invites students to look again at their earlier answers and to seeĀ how their thinking Read More →
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 Read More →
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 Read More →
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 Read More →
This activity reviews student understanding of the nature of science, gives you a chance to diagnose problematic assumptions that students still hold, and provides a way of Read More →
This activity introduces distinctions between basic science, applied science, and technology, and engagesĀ students in exploring how these relate to faith-informed motivations.
Goals
Students will understand the Read More →
This activity provides a hands-on way of getting students to engage with the difficulties of a simplistic faith-versus-science view. It engages them in classifying claims about the Read More →
This activity can be used as a continuation of and to augment the learning in Hebrew in Science Class?. It invites students to seeĀ the interconnectionsĀ between Read More →
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 Read More →
