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. (Activity PDFs are the corresponding pages from the Student Book. *Books are also available in the “Resource” tab on the left side of the online Bible Study Manager.)

Connect

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

  • All Student Option—An activity to introduce everyone to the lesson’s theme
  • Age Specific Options—Additional activities to further peak the interest of younger and older students
  • DVD Option—A short video clip and discussion question to introduce a theme

Explore

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

  • The Interactive Key Study—An interactive, discussion-based small group Bible Study guide, focusing on the Biblical Passage
  • The Master Teacher Key Study—A sermon-style Bible Study outline with key points, illustrations, applications, and follow-up discussion questions, 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:

  • Age Specific Options—Application activities developed specifically for younger and older students
  • Creative Prayer—Interactive ways to pray
Choose a Teaching Plan:

Connect Activity

Rooted Introduction

(5 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will be introduced to the Rooted series with a challenge to consider what difference Christ makes in their lives and in the world.

For All Students: I Hope

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will get to know one another by describing what they want, wish, and dream.

Rooted DVD Option: Stranger

(5 minutes, Rooted DVD required)
Students will watch a clip about where they find hope, meaning, and value.

Younger Student Option: Unusual Power

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will play a game of strength, attempting to move their opponents.

Older Student Option: New Nature

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will attempt to reproduce an image with their eyes closed.

Explore Activity

Interactive Key Study: Enlightened

(15–20 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will study Ephesians 1:18-23 to grow in their understanding of how God values all of His people as a treasured possession.

Master Teacher Key Study: The Light of Hope

(15–20 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will study Ephesians 1:18-23 to grow in their understanding of how God values all of His people as a treasured possession.

Younger Student Option: The Whole World In His Hands

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will go deeper into the discussion of the universal need for gospel’s life-changing power.

Older Student Option: Spitting In The Wind

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will consider the vanity of placing hope in the “good” things of this world according to King Solomon’s wisdom.

Transform Activity

Younger Student Option: Eye Opening

(5–10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will evaluate the true source of hope in their lives.

Older Student Option: Perspective Is Everything

(10 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will be challenged to consider how seeing the universal need for Christ changes the way they see their lives in the world.

Creative Prayer

(5 minutes, easy set-up)
Students will let Scripture guide their time praying to see their valuable calling in life.