 Aim
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| To look at lessons we can learn from symbols used every day in school.
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Key Quotations |
'Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you'. (Luke 12:31, English Standard Version)
'The LORD has taken away your sin'. (2 Samuel 12:13, NIV)
'"Still other seed fell on good soil. It came up, grew and produced a crop, multiplying thirty, sixty or even a hundred times." Then Jesus said, "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."' (Mark 4:8-9, NIV)
'No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.' (Acts 4:32-33, NIV)
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Preparation |
You will need:
- The prepared flash cards showing the mathematical symbols.
(NB: The presentation file requires Open Office, Impress or Microsoft PowerPoint. If you do not have a copy of one of these installed on your PC, the whole Open Office suite can be downloaded FREE from the Open Office website www.openoffice.org or a free PowerPoint viewer can be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Either will open the file.)
- A Bible or, if you have a projector linked to an online computer, use www.biblegateway.com and choose a suitable translation.
- Dictionaries for group work during Reflection 3, or also consider using the Cambridge Online Dictionary dictionary.cambridge.org with a computer linked to a projector for whole class use.
Format: Text, flash cards and links
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Songs |
'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God', No.292, Kidsource, Kevin Mayhew, ISBN:1-840-03310-X
'Give me oil in my lamp', No 43, The Complete Come and Praise, BBC Publishing.
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Follow-up Ideas |
- Search the Bible for other references to add/ing/ed; take away; multiply/ied; share/d etc.
- Start by using class Bibles and suggest that the pupils start at Genesis and work their way through to Revelation!
- Ask a member of the local clergy to visit the class to show how s/he finds relevant Bible passages by using a concordance. Demonstrate how to use the concordance and give each group time to find passages using this method.
- Then compare it with using an online 'Keyword Search' facility on Bible Gateway www.biblegateway.com. Compare searching through the Bible with using a concordance, and compare using a concordance with using an online search facility.
- Create a dramatic presentation of the Parable of the Sower and present it in a whole school assembly.
- Design the front page of a newspaper to record some of the amazing scenes recorded in Acts 2-4. Again it could be helpful and interesting to use Bible Gateway to view the different translations. For simple help sheets in creating a newspaper front page using MS Word, please visit itteam.powys.gov.uk and go to the Documents section, select 'Information Technology' followed by 'Newspaper'.
- Write and present prayers for the safety of those working for relief agencies in dangerous parts of the world.
- Grow your cress from seeds - watch and record the growth
www.bigeyedowl.co.uk/activities-growing.htm or
www.wsbentley.co.uk/howtogrowcress.html or
www.makeschooleasy.com/grow-cress/
- Mathematics and the Bible - π (Pi) is mentioned in the Bible
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
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