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    7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children: Includes 25 Lessons, Plus Activities That Satisfy Different Learning Styles
    7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children: Includes 25 Lessons, Plus Activities That Satisfy Different Learning Styles
    7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children: Includes 25 Lessons, Plus Activities That Satisfy Different Learning Styles
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    7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children: Includes 25 Lessons, Plus Activities That Satisfy Different Learning Styles

    By Barbara Bruce and Leonard Sweet

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    There are seven distinct ways of teaching and learning: verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, body/kinesthetic, musical/rhythmic, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. In 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children, Barbara Bruce uses these seven learning styles to show you how to meet the various learning needs of each child in your classroom.

    The 25 Old and New Testament lessons which are included feature warm-up exercises, scripture readings, activities, and options for tailoring the lesson to all your students' individual learning needs. Practical advice for discovering each child's learning preferences, reproducible patterns and handouts, and a teacher training session are also included. The Bible story lessons can be used independently or with existing class curriculum.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2011
    ISBN9781426734557
    7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children: Includes 25 Lessons, Plus Activities That Satisfy Different Learning Styles
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    Barbara Bruce

    Barbara Bruce has worked as a Christian educator for nearly twenty years. She is the owner of Process: CREATIVITY, a consulting firm offering workshops in creative and critical thinking. She is the author of Teaching Children Bible Basics, 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children, Standing Up Against the Odds, Start Here; Teaching and Learning With Adults, 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Adults, and Our Spiritual Brain. Her most recent publication is Mental Aerobics: 75 Ways to Keep Your Brain Fit.

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      7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children - Barbara Bruce

      7 Ways of

      Teaching the Bible

      to Children

      Barbara Bruce

      Abingdon Press

      Nashville

      7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children

      Copyright © 1996 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed in writing to Abingdon Press, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203.

      This book is printed on acid-free, recycled paper.

      Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.

      Those noted NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Bruce, Barbara.

      7 ways of teaching the Bible to children / Barbara Bruce.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 0-687-02068-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

      1. Bible—Study and teaching. 2. Christian education of children. 3. Cognitive styles in children.

      I. Title.

      BS600.2.B76 1996

      268'.432—dc20

      96-42570

      CIP     

      ISBN 13: 978-0-687-02068-3

      Permission to reproduce pages 75-77 and pages 95-110 is granted to purchasers of this book.

      08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 — 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      To my daughter

      Stacey,

      who flourishes in spite of the system

      and who learns in many ways.

      For Stacey and all children

      who learn in different ways,

      there is hope.

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      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION

      Multiple Intelligence Theory

      Scriptural References to Multiple Intelligences

      Determining Children's Preferences

      How to Use These Bible Lessons

      Learning Activities Descriptions

      BIBLE LESSONS

      Old Testament

      1. God's Creation

      2. Noah and the Great Flood

      3. Noah and the Covenant

      4. The Noah Adventure

      5. The Birth of Isaac

      6. Joseph and His Brothers

      7. Rules to Live By

      8. Ruth and Naomi

      9. The Lord Is My Shepherd

      10. The Prophet Jonah

      New Testament

      11. Jesus Is Born

      12. The Visit of the Magi

      13. Jesus' Baptism

      14. Come, Follow Me

      15. Jesus and the Children

      16. Jesus Calms the Storm

      17. The Feeding of the Five Thousand

      18. The Healing of the Paralyzed Man

      19. The Good Samaritan

      20. The Lost Sheep

      21. The Lost Coin

      22. The Parable of the Loving Father

      23. The Last Supper

      24. The Empty Tomb

      25. Pentecost

      TRAINING WORKSHOP

      Teacher Training Session

      Self Report Card (Handout #1)

      The Seven Intelligences (Handout #2)

      APPENDIX

      Identifying Intelligence Preference

      Lesson Evaluation

      Write a Cinquain Poem

      Venn Diagram

      Story Grid

      Concept Map

      See/Feel T-Chart

      What, So What, Now What?

      Songs

      Butterfly/Cross

      Pentecost Wind Sock

      The Ten Commandments

      Easter Symbols

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

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      From the very beginning, the Wesleyan movement touted a singular formula: knowledge + vital piety = an awakened church. Education is the key to spiritual awakening. It is often forgotten that Wesley himself was a formidable Oxford don, doughty to the point where he supposedly refused to enter the university town of Cambridge, England, because he did not want to lower his academic standards.

      The Methodist movement was born in a learning setting (Oxford University). It will be born again in learning settings as well (what I call church seminaries). In fact, education may be more central to a spiritual awakening than worship. Wesley stressed substantive teaching and preaching over recruiting new members. After all, he called his meetings classes. The early Wesleyans were more concerned about how to send people out rather than seduce them in.

      If our churches were sending out educated disciples, our churches wouldn't have to worry so much about bringing in new people to worship. Instead of peopling buildings, we would be building people. Instead of making programs, we would be making disciples.

      One of the best resources I have encountered that uses new learning theory and creativity studies to teach the stories of the faith is Barbara Bruce's interactive, experiential work/playbook, 7 Ways of Teaching the Bible to Children. Full disclosure? I confess: this book deepened and widened my own understanding of the biblical texts (which says more about the value of this book than the state of my faith, I hope).

      Do something unadultish. Use this book not just as an educational resource for children, but also for your own spiritual enjoyment, enrichment, and instruction. Bruce wrote the book for children—which means she wrote it for all of us.

      Leonard Sweet

      Drew University

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      Multiple Intelligence Theory

      In 1984 a group of cutting-edge educators left a conference in Tarrytown, New York, energized and excited about a presentation that was to change the shape of teaching across the country. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, the ripple effect of that presentation is reaching into school systems and touching children's lives.

      The presenter's name was Howard Gardner. At the time he was refining his theory of multiple intelligences, which he developed during his graduate work at Harvard University. Later his findings were published in a book titled Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner's theory, simply stated, is that cognitive learning takes many forms in the human brain. Each of us is born with the capacity to learn in many different ways. However, each of us develops preferred ways of learning, and we rely most heavily on those ways to learn.

      Gardner isolated seven intelligences, but maintains that these seven intelligences seldom stand alone. They are integrated into patterns of our own selecting, which provide us with our best means of gathering knowledge. Gardner's work is not finished, and is a beginning, rather than an end. He and others, like

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