Description
In this interactive Bible course, kids embark on a journey of discovery through Scripture. This course is about helping you build a strong connection with God’s Word and cultivating a personal relationship with Him.
Course Overview:
Join us for a weekly live class filled with engaging and thought-provoking discussions, along with optional, short daily homework assignments. This combination will engage your learners with God’s Word and help them explore its truths meaningfully throughout the week.
Course Highlights:
- Adventure in Bible Study: Learn how to study the Bible in a way that’s exciting and meaningful. Dive into stories, characters, and lessons that will help you understand God’s message.
- Discovering the Inductive Method of Study: Uncover the steps of Bible study—Observation, Interpretation, and Application—in a kid-friendly way. These steps will guide you in understanding the Bible better.
- Your Faith Journey: Develop the skills to explore the Bible on your own. We’ll show you how to ask questions, find answers, and apply what you learn to your life.
- Flexible Learning: Move between the study steps as you explore the Bible. Be open to new insights and surprises as you dive into the stories and teachings.
- Live Class Adventures: Meet other kids in our weekly live class, where we’ll have fun discussions, share discoveries, and learn together in an interactive and friendly environment.
- Daily Exploration: Enjoy short, engaging homework assignments every day. These activities will help you stay connected to God’s Word and deepen your understanding.
- Made for You: The materials are designed just for kids like you. They’re age-appropriate, interesting, and guide you through the study of God’s very words.
- Growing in Faith: Learn how to make the Bible a part of your daily life. Discover how its teachings can guide you and help you grow in your relationship with God.
Course Goals:
- Equip kids with the tools to explore the Bible independently and understand its relevance to their lives.
- Foster a love for God’s Word.
- Create a community of young learners who can share their thoughts, questions, and insights in a supportive and interactive environment.
Get ready to embark on an adventure of exploring God’s Word together!
Course Schedule:
September – December: Each week students learn a new name of God.
Homework Option:
In class, we do a study together, and students have homework for the week if they choose. They may use the Precept Bible study books. These use the NASB, but some footnotes make it easy to use any of the following translations: KJV, NKJV, NIV, ESV. If you would like to purchase a Bible geared for inductive study, Precept has designed a Bible specifically formatted for use with their books. You can see Bible options here:
https://shop.precept.org/collections/bibles
This class is not offered on Outschool.
The Lemons-Aid Way: Our Approach to Teaching & Learning is Explicit!
Explicit teaching is a method of instruction students desperately need! It is the opposite of a constructivist philosophy whereby students ponder and explore to construct meaning themselves. Well…
Instead of leaving students to magically figure out how to write an essay, we teach explicitly, which is backed by a large body of evidence, and it’s how Mrs. Lemons teaches her undergraduate and graduate teacher-candidates in college to teach! We do it this way because it’s how kids learn.
Explicit instruction is “a structured, systematic, and effective methodology for teaching academic skills. It is called explicit because it is an unambiguous and direct approach to teaching that includes both instructional design and delivery procedures. Explicit instruction is characterized by a series of supports or scaffolds, whereby students are guided through the learning process with clear statements about the purpose and rationale for learning the new skill, clear explanations and demonstrations of the instructional target, and supported practice with feedback until independent mastery has been achieved.”
-Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching by Anita L. Archer and Charles A. Hughes.
Anita Archer trained Mrs. Lemons in workshops, and it changed her teaching. Read a little more about the research behind explicit teaching here and here.
Get to know Mrs. Lemons a little more.
We have adopted The Master’s Seminary Doctrinal Statement.