Teaching Plan

The Customizable Teaching Plan is where you will find every activity needed for an amazing time of Bible Study with your students.

  • There are four different plans to choose from, Complete, Younger, Older, and Master Teacher. (Although activities have been carefully designed with age-appropriate behavior, topics, and learning styles in mind, you know your own group better than anyone – feel free to customize your plan to best fit your group’s personality and needs.)
  • Each plan is broken into three sections: Connect, Explore, and Transform.
  • Simply click on the activity titles below to see each activity.
  • Activity PDFs can be downloaded within the specific activity window.

Connect

Connect options are fun ways to introduce the lesson's theme(s). Your choices for Connect activities include:

  • Drama—A short drama script that can be performed by your students
  • Media Option—Media options are videos, photos, audio files, or slide shows
  • Age Specific Options—Activities to get your students ready for the lesson
  • Review Questions—Questions to review the previous lesson's content

Explore

Explore options are where Bible Study happens. Your choices for Explore activities include:

  • The Key Study—An interactive, small group Bible Study focusing on the Biblical Passage (includes Map and Timeline reference)
  • The Master Teacher Key Study—A sermon-style Bible Study focusing on the Biblical Passage
  • Age Specific Options—Bible Study activities developed specifically for younger and older students

Transform

Transform options help your students apply the lesson's truths. Your choices for Transform activities include:

  • Deeper Discussion—Questions to take your students deeper into the application of the lesson
  • Creative Prayer—Interactive ways to pray
  • Age Specific Options—Application activities developed specifically for younger and older students
Choose a Teaching Plan:

Connect

Connect activities get students ready to learn. Choose one or two of the activities below to introduce this week’s lesson.

Especially for Younger Students: Consequences

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will examine the lives of celebrities to consider the consequences of the choices they make.
Gather articles from the newspaper, magazines, or online describing celebrities—past or present—who are dealing with the consequences of good and bad decisions. (Examples could include the Kardashians, Angelina Jolie, Pete Rose, Michael Vick, Aaron Hernandez, Tim Tebow, and Eric Liddell.)

Especially for Older Students: Belief Leads to Action

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will consider the relationship between belief and action.

Master Teacher Option: Belief Leads to Action

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will consider the relationship between belief and action.

Explore

Explore activities lead students to study Scripture. Teach the Key Study to focus on the Biblical Truth. If you choose, support the Key Study with one or two of the following activities.

Interactive Core Study: Caleb the Spy

(15-20 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will study Numbers 14:20-38 to examine Caleb’s faithful trust in God’s promises despite challenges and opposition.
Provide a copy of the Student Worksheet and a pen for each student. Also provide a dry erase board and marker.

Master Teacher Key Study: Caleb the Spy

(15–20 minutes, easy set-up)

Students will study Numbers 14:20-38 to examine Caleb’s faithful trust in God’s promises despite challenges and opposition.
Print one copy of the Master Teacher Key Study for your use. Provide a copy of the Student Worksheet and a pen for each student.

Especially for Younger Students: Mercy and Justice

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will discuss how God showed both mercy and justice in this passage.
Provide dictionaries or allow students to use their smartphones. Also provide a dry erase board and markers.

Especially for Older Students: History of Unfaithfulness

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will consider the history of the Israelites leading up to this moment of disobedience.
Provide a dry erase board and marker.

Transform

Choose one or two Transform activities to challenge students to live differently. Keep in mind that the Holy Spirit ultimately brings about change, so help students draw near to Him.

Deeper Discussion

(5-10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will discuss ways they might demonstrate wholehearted commitment to God even when they face opposition to their faith.

Especially for Younger Students: 10 and 2?

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will compare their faith to the 10 spies and the 2 spies.
Provide a dry erase board and marker. Also provide pens and paper for students.

Especially for Older Students: Wholehearted Following

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will discuss what it looks like to follow God wholeheartedly.
Provide a dry erase board and markers.

Master Teacher Option: Wholehearted Following

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will discuss what it looks like to follow God wholeheartedly.
Provide a dry erase board and markers.

Take Home Activity

The Take Home Activity gives families the opportunity to study the biblical passage together and discuss how each member of the family might apply the truths from the lesson to his or her life.

Family Devotion

(10-15 minutes at home, easy set-up)
Distribute copies of the Family Devotion to students and encourage them to share the devotion with their family.