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Share a biblically integrated assignment or assessment you use in your classroom. In what way(s) does it work well? Is there room for improvement? If you don’t currently have any biblically integrated assignments or assessments, share an idea you have for one.
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I teach second grade so I try to integrate spiritual truths throughout every lesson I teach on a daily basis. For instance, when teaching about measurement in math, I discuss with the children how measuring helps us determine length, weight, etc. in things in God’s world. We discuss how every measurement has a standard by which we understand that measures value and it does not change. (Ex: 1 foot will ALWAYS equal 12 inches) I then talk about why we as humans can never “measure up” to God’s standard. We dig deeper in this by discussing why humans cannot measure up is because of the Fall in Genesis 3. We go back to what we have learned in Scripture and we discuss why the Fall happened. We discuss how it was a choice because God gave us a free will to choose to love and serve Him. I bring the lesson also back to redemption where, yes, we fall short of the Lord, but that is why Jesus came. He came to buy us back from sin.
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When my students read Ralph Waldo Emerson, I have students read his essays with a local pastor’s “Spot the Lie” game in mind. Emerson has so many “feel-good” ideas, and there are bits and pieces of truth interspersed with the gobbledygook. They close the Emerson unit by reading his “Divinity School Essay” and writing an essay on the degree to which his ideas do and do not conform to scripture.
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I think that one assignment that would work well in my math courses is to discuss why it is a good thing that we have a God of reason. We have to use reasoning skills in solving math problems in a similar way we see God work in ways that have rational and reason behind his actions.
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The math curriculum that our school is using does not have any biblically integrated assignments. However, as teachers we are helping students to develop character traits that align with the Bible. This course has made me think of some ways to purposefully integrate biblical truths within my lessons.
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As a team, we are planning to integrate the non-Cristian curriculums to the Bible. It is a hard task but when working as a team, we can do it.