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Philip and the Ethiopian activity to accompany the story in Acts 8, full instructions and downloadable templates. Part of a whole lesson onsite.
Saul's Conversion Acts 9:1-19 Verses 18 - 19 say, "Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he coul...
This post is a request from a comment. I have listed the order of the lesson posts for Acts with the links for your convenience to find them. If you are teaching the book of Acts, this list of links help make finding everything easier. Please note: This has the list of original Acts lessons first. Newer versions will be listed also with the blog post photo, but both posts have different ideas & printables. Sorry, this page is missing pictures. They will be added soon. Click here to see the updated visuals for Acts. Click on the title to see the post: The Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost Ananias & Sapphira Newer lesson is here Stephen Newer lesson is here Philip & Ethiopian Eunuch Newer lesson is here Peter Freed From Prison newer lesson here Peter Heals Dorcas & Aeneas Newer lesson is here Cornelius & Peter's Dream Newer lesson is here Saul Blinded by the Light Newer lesson is here Paul Leaves Damascus by Basket Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Paul & Elymas the Sorcerer Newer lesson is here Paul & Barnabas in Antioch Newer lesson is here Paul Heals Crippled Man in Lystra Newer lesson is here Timothy Newer lesson is here Lydia Newer lesson is here or here newest lesson is here Paul & Silas in Prison Newer lesson is here newer lesson is here Paul Preaches @ Mars Hill in Athens Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Aquila & Priscilla Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Eutychus Newer lesson here Demetrius & Evil Books Burned Newer lesson is here Agabus Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Paul Captured in Jerusalem Newer lesson is here Paul's Nephew Saves Him Newer lesson is here Paul Before Felix Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Paul Before Festus & King Agrippa Newer lesson is here Newest lesson is here Paul Shipwrecked Newer lesson is here Paul Gets Bit by a Snake on Malta Newer lesson is here Paul Arrives in Rome Newer lesson is here Paul's Life Review Click here to see all the Acts worksheets. Click here for the ORIGINAL Acts passport link to print your weekly passport. The Travels of Paul Passport was updated! It is smaller to look like a real passport, easier to print, and has more printing options. Click here to see the newer version. The newest passport with stamps is here. Click here for the Acts lapbook printables. Click here for the visuals for each lesson that can be for a bulletin board, flip chart, etc.
Simple tent sewing cards craft for use with multiple stories but designed to accompany Priscilla & Aquila (Acts 18). Free pdf templates to download.
Teaching Kindness Changes the Classroom Community!Phrases like "random acts of kindness" and "pay it forward" have become popular terms in modern society. There are even special
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Looking for a tableaux drama activities? Tableau, or tableaux, is a drama term that refers to a scene that is held, or frozen still without any of the actors moving.
Social stories can be a very visual and concrete way to teach students social skills. Some students naturally understand social expectations and ways to behave, and others need more explicit teaching. In my opinion, social stories do the explicit teaching when done correctly. Students need to be able to easily understand the social skill that ... Read More about Using Social Stories to Teach Social Skills and Appropriate Ways to Behave
Paul stayed 2 years preaching and teaching in Ephesus. Here is a sin object lesson that teaches repentance with scripture from Acts 19.
Did you catch my last post about our 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge that is starting in a little over a week? Each year around this time the weather can be bad and after the
Paul and Silas in prison Bible lesson for children with worksheets, coloring pages, crafts, story, games and activities and more. Based on Acts 16. Paul and Silas are freed from prison by an earthquake. The jailer of the prison becomes a believer in Jesus Christ. He and his family are baptized.
This is a fantastic all-encompassing rubric to assess acting in a drama class. The rubric is on a 5 point scale, and assesses five categories: movement, character, blocking, voice, and facial expression. The document includes two pages: one for a pre-assessment, and one for the final assessment. It is in document form so you can edit and change as you see fit. I use this with my drama students at the beginning of the course and the end in order to show student growth. Once you become familiar with the rubric, grading becomes a breeze. This works perfectly for Professional Growth Plans! You could also use it for students to assess each other, and for performers to assess themselves after performing or while watching themselves perform on video. Perfect for drama // theater arts classes for middle school or high school level.
There are times we ask for something small when God wants to bless us with something great. Use this object lesson to teach children Acts 3.
Paul and Silas in prison Bible lesson for children with worksheets, coloring pages, crafts, story, games and activities and more. Based on Acts 16. Paul and Silas are freed from prison by an earthquake. The jailer of the prison becomes a believer in Jesus Christ. He and his family are baptized.
Need kindness projects for kindness day, kindness week or kindness lessons? Teach empathy and encourage your child to help others by adding a kindness challenge for kids. We have kindness fun, kindness crafts for sunday school, kindness games for preschoolers and up and other random acts of kindness projects and kindness tools to teach kids to pass on kindness!
Seven chosen to serve. Acts 6 preschool Bible lesson. Free printable God has given each of us special gifts and abilities to serve Him. Everyone has an important role in the church. When the apostles became overwhelmed, they chose seven men to help them take care of people. The story of choosing these men is found in Acts 6.
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Assorted games for kids to play for learning about Pentecost as found in Acts 2. Supporting material available.
Try these middle school drama lessons and ideas.
Philip and the Ethiopian activity to accompany the story in Acts 8, full instructions and downloadable templates. Part of a whole lesson onsite.
101 Random Acts of Kindness Ideas, All The Best Acts of kindness and Random Acts of Kindness Examples for Everyone, Acts of Kindness for Kids, You'll find over 200 Easy Random Acts of Kindness and Small acts of kindness. Plus, Kindness Printables and Kindness Activities!
Animals are an obsession for many children.
Peter and John Heal a Lame Beggar - Acts 3. Worksheets, story pages, craft, coloring pages and more When the beggar asked them for money, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold for you. But I will give you what I have." Then Peter healed the man in Jesus' name.
A selection of games to use when teaching about Pauls meeting Lydia in Acts 16 - part of a whole lesson available on the site.
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Drama games & activities in your classroom or drama club as warm-ups, ice breakers, or as fun activities to start any class!
I am so excited to launch my first "series" of blog posts! It's making me feel all grown-up and blogger-like :)My first series is going to be on increasing student engagement in the classroom. Over
A list of places to leave guerrilla art, random acts of kindness; otherwise known as art abandonment. A way to give you some ideas to get you started!
This lesson combines both Peter's Vision he had on the rooftop and continues with Peter traveling to see Cornelius and teaching him about Jesus. Today we are studying about Cornelius found in Acts 10:1-48. He lived in Caesarea and was a centurion (captain of 100 men) of the Italian Regiment (military). He was faithful and feared God. He gladly gave gifts to the poor and he prayed a lot. About three in the afternoon an angel of God came to him and said, “Cornelius.” He was scared when he saw the angel! The angel told him that God has heard his prayers. The angel told him to "Send for Simon Peter, and he will tell you what to do." The angel left and Cornelius told two servants and a soldier to go to Joppa to get Simon Peter. It was a 10-hour trip. The next day, at about noon, Peter went to the housetop to pray. He was very hungry, and he fell into a trance. He saw the heavens open up and something like a huge sheet tied by its four corners come to earth. It had all different kinds of animals, reptiles and birds on it. Peter wondered what that meant. This happened three times, and then went back up into heaven. (Acts 10:16) While he was thinking about it, the three men sent by Cornelius asked if Peter was there. Peter went down and told them that he was the Peter they were looking for. After they explained why Cornelius sent them, Peter invited them into his house. Peter got up in the morning and prepared to travel with Cornelius’ men. Peter took six Jewish believers along with him (Acts 11:12) on this journey. They split the traveling into a two-day journey from Joppa to Caesarea. When they went into the house, all the people that Cornelius had invited were there to greet Peter. (Acts 10:34) God sent Peter to teach Cornelius and his family. Peter told them that God doesn’t show favoritism. Everyone is treated the same in every nation that fears Him and is faithful to Him. He told them about Jesus and how He died. He said that we are commanded to preach to all people so all can go to Heaven. The thing was that at any other time, Peter and Cornelius wouldn’t be seen together, especially talking to each other because it was unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with someone from another country. (Acts 10:28) But when the people that were at the house of Cornelius heard what Peter had to say, they believed. The last verse (Acts 10:48) says that Peter told them to be baptized in the name of the Lord and then they asked Peter to stay for a few days with them. These updated Roman Centurion posters can be used for any lesson with a centurion. The last poster is Cornelius. These are in color only. Click here to download. This is my visual for this week. The 'sheet tied by the 4 corners' is hanging from the ceiling. I used fishing line to hang it. There are 2 dowel rods that the sheet is tied to keep it from sagging, and the fishing line is tied around the dowel rods. Peter's housetop is a piece of plywood on dowel rod legs. White fabric (that won't fray) cut into 12" large squares. This is about what I cut them. It depends on the fabric, and I just cut them to get the least amount of waste. In the picture, you see I used a white felt, and cut the squares into 18-inch pieces. (Picture 1) Cut two 40" lengths of fishing line, and tie to the opposite corners of the 'sheet'. (Picture 2) I pulled the fishing line up in the center of both pieces and made a loop to gather them. You can give the kids a dowel rod to hang it on to make it go up and down easier. The students will add any animals you hand out and take home their animals they brought. (I sent a note home with them last week and sent email reminders during the week) They can raise and lower the sheet like the vision. Click here to print the note from last week. You can print the left clean vs. unclean worksheet by clicking here. The chart on the right is an updated chart of clean and unclean animals. It is a very basic list with animals that are in the Bible or easily recognized animals. It is not intended to be an in-depth list. This includes the color and black & white. Click here to download. These posters are more of a teacher's visual when discussing clean and unclean and were used with the above student handout chart of clean and unclean animals. Remember, this is intended for early elementary and is not an in-depth adult study on the laws God made for clean and unclean. There is a very basic outline that can be used with the posters and this lesson. Click here to download. This Bible lesson has so many good points that can be discussed. One point that Luke keeps making in Acts is that when people hear the Gospel, they believe in Jesus and immediately are baptized. Another is that Jesus loves everyone and salvation is for everyone. Since those points are made repeatedly in the following lessons, I took this time to talk about some of the old laws from the Old Testament, and some of the new laws that came into effect when Jesus died on the cross. We discussed the old law of sacrificing animals, and we are very thankful we don't have to do that! But, the new law includes baptism. We still worship, but the old law was on the Sabbath, being Saturday. Exodus 31:16 And, the new law on the first day of the week, being Sunday. (Acts 20:7) We mostly talked about clean and unclean food. The food choices were part of the new laws. I had a bigger table and more animals, but this will give you an idea of what I did. I gathered up animals, even my granddaughters Fisher Price ones, and the kids looked at their charts and we put the animal with the correct tag. You can print the clean and unclean tags here. These hanging monkeys and the snakes are from Dollar Tree. They LOVE the monkeys! I hang them on my arms and let them pick their color. But, the object is to discuss the clean vs. unclean according to God. These rats and bats are only sold around October. The first packs are at Wal Mart, the second ones in the mesh bags are at Dollar Tree. They love those, because they glow in the dark! You can also use the black birds (ravens for Elijah) from Dollar Tree for several Bible lessons, and this is one of the lessons! Click here to download. You can find all the Acts worksheets here. Click here to print the lesson. Click here to download the updated visuals as shown above. The visuals are for Acts 10-11. Not all are shown. Click here to download the pictures to color. (These are the same as the visuals but are black & white.) Old/New Law Bible Verse: Acts 10:48 Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission.
Assorted games for kids to play for learning about Pentecost as found in Acts 2. Supporting material available.
A selection of games to play when teaching youngsters about the story of Priscilla & Aquila as found in Acts chapter 18.
This Ananias and Sapphira object lesson will help our children understand that lying and sneakiness are not steps on the narrow path of godliness.
The Open Syllable is the opposite of a Closed Syllable. In an open syllable, you have a vowel left alone at the end of the syllable. Join us to unravel the mystery of open syllables and Y's role as a vowel! Discover how open syllables work and why Y sometimes acts as a vowel. Explore strategies and
Learning about different animals and the habitats that they live in is a fantastic science lesson for preschoolers and with these printable habitat flashlight
From Drama Dreams and English Themes, this product includes a lesson plan and assignment to assist students with monologue memorization. The lesson can easily be adapted to assist students with memorization in other classes as well. This lesson helps students explore different learning techniques and styles (chunking, aural, kinesthetic, intrapersonal, visual) while working on memorization in order to ultimately reflect and choose which learning style is most effective. The product includes a lesson plan, directions and materials for five different memorization stations, a learning styles reflection assignment, and five signs for the different stations. It is aligned with common core standards. Graphics are used with permission from: Lovin' Lit, http://www.mycutegraphics.com, and http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Image-Boutique, © Brennyn Carmen BMTC Illustration Image Boutique 2014
Use the All about me printable to make a fun coloring craft/writing activity All about me spinner for first day of school for kids.
Developing empathy in children has never been more fun than with this collection of 19 simple empathy activities for kids!
In Acts 2, we read about the beginning of the church on the Day of Pentecost, where God gave the gift of the Holy Spirit to the church. Free printable Bible pack for preschool kids at home or at church. Worksheets, crafts, coloring pages and more.
