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Continue reading →: Creating the Best Learning Environment in Your Classroom
Here are some tips on how to create the best learning environment in an adult learning engagement. Rearrange Your Space Nine times out of ten, when you get to the training venue, there will be something about the arrangement of tables and equipment that won’t be helpful for learning. Arrive…
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Continue reading →: Ideas for Using Icebreakers, Energizers and Games Effectively in Learning
The following tips might be helpful to you as you use icebreakers, energizers and games in your facilitation. Connect to Your Content Whenever possible, connect your icebreakers and games to the content. Don’t just use them to increase energy; this is not the best use of your time. You…
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Continue reading →: Capture the Spear (GAME)
Time 20 minutes Description This is a game that simulates the time when David snuck down into King Saul’s camp and stole his spear and water jug while his army was sleeping. Audience Children, Youth Materials o Stick (1 – long and straight is better, because it represents…
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Continue reading →: Round the Mountain (GAME)
Time 20 minutes Description This is a game that simulates the time when Saul chased David around the mountain and almost caught him. It also references when David crept up on Saul in the cave and cut off a piece of Saul’s robe. Audience Children, Youth Materials o …
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Continue reading →: Don’t Take Shortcuts (OBJ LESSON)
Time 20 minutes Description This object lesson teaches about what we miss out on when we take shortcuts in reaching God’s will for our life. It uses a maze and the life of David. Audience Children Materials o PowerPoint file – “Don’t Take Shortcuts – Maze (You can…
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Continue reading →: God’s Anointing (CLOSER)
Time 20 minutes Description This closer can be used at the end of a teaching period on the life of David, or you can use it when you teach about David’s second anointing as king in 2 Samuel 2:4. Scriptures · 1 Samuel 16:1-13 · 2 Samuel 2:4 · …
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Continue reading →: When Technology Changes (ANECDOTE)
In 1847, French Army captains Claude-Etienne Minie and Henri-Gustave Delvigne developed a new technology called the Minie ball. This new type of bullet was an innovation that improved the accuracy of rifle muskets, because it took advantage of the gun’s spiraled grooves inside the barrel (“rifling”). When the rifles were fired, hot,…
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Continue reading →: An Excellent Failure (ANECDOTE)
I was at a meeting with some of our leaders from part of my ministry a few weeks ago, and we were discussing the topic of failure and how it is perceived within our organization. We agreed that there is an unspoken rule that failure is NOT okay. We will…
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Continue reading →: Potemkin Villages (ANECDOTE)
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tavricheski (Potemkin |pəˈtemkin| for short) was a Russian military leader and personal favorite (and possibly secret husband) of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762-1796. He was intelligent and daring, and as a young man, he won many victories fighting the Turkish forces of the Ottoman Empire. After defeating…
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I’m Michael
I’ve been teaching kids about the Bible for more than 25 years. Teaching Them is where I share my lessons, games, and skits.
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