5-8 minutes, moderate set-up)
Learners will react to items that evoke a strong physical response.
(5-8 minutes, moderate setup)
Provide items that will evoke a strong physical response. Items could include a funny cartoon, a picture of something beautiful, tragic, or scary, something that smells really good or really bad, or a photo of a popular sports symbol.
State that you have collected some interesting items over the past week. Pass the collected items around. Encourage an informal interaction and note learners’ reactions. Describe the reactions you observed. (For example, say something like, “I noticed that Bill laughed really hard at the cartoon. I heard Sarah say, ‘Aw! That’s beautiful,’ when she saw the picture of the mountain sunrise.”) Encourage learners to add other reactions they experienced that you might not have noticed. Emphasize that the responses of learners were natural reactions. State that, in today’s lesson, learners will consider the natural response one has when the beauty of God’s character is seen in creation.