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Explain, in your own words, what “processing activities” are and how they contribute to a coherent curriculum.
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Processing activities are important. The bigger ideas of a lesson need to be revisited and time needs to be taken to do so. A processing activity can be done at the end of a class period so students can reflect on what they have learned, or revisited months later so the students have time to reflect on what they have learned, and to see firsthand how their views have possibly changed. Processing activities contribute to a coherent curriculum by giving opportunity for students to reflect on an overall change in their own knowledge or worldview.
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Activities intended to help students connect the well-structured biblical curriculumn to a healthy biblical worldview.
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These are activities designed for students to say in their own words how the subject we are working on relates to a Biblical world view. Challenge students to find scripture that relates to our topic. How does this lesson fit a Christian perspective? What does the world offer as it’s narrative? I liked 3×5 card idea. Hand out a 3×5 card and ask students to write their thoughts about the scripture or Biblical world view over a certain topic. Then the teacher collects them to return to students several months later when revisiting that subject and see how the student’s thinking has progressed.
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Processing activities are a chance to reflect on what has been learned. It also gives time to revisit and evaluate your thinking about prior lessons. It is a time to evaluate the lessons and their content after further learning to see if thoughts and ideas have change or can be further developed.
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Giving students time for reflection, review, application not only gives the class meaning, it reaches to the heart of finding what God wants is to know from this. It is a very important life tool to know how to step back and meditate, to listen to what God is telling us at each moment throughout life.