How do you keep the interest of  students in this age of techno gadgets?  How can you use science to cultivate their sense of wonder and awe for our Creator?  How do you effectively manage the countless details of science lessons?  This survival guide is targeted to those who teach 4th-8th grade science, and will answer these questions and many more.  Veteran science teacher and author Tim Eimer will mentor you into the joys of teaching science in a Christian school as well as guiding you past its pitfalls.  This core guide for teaching middle grades science will enable you to benefit from his discoveries, successes and, in his words, utter failures!  It will provide you with practical methods and advice for crafting creative lesson plans, planning exciting field trips, teaching controversial subjects and nurturing a passion for God’s universe.  Come benefit from Tim’s twenty-five years of teaching experience!

You want your students to connect the part of God’s world they study and Biblical principles. This is significant challenge. Want some help?

Want to work with your colleagues to better help your students connect God’s world and Word? If so, then purchase Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word (US$25), a discussion-based kit with 7 sessions. As a result of working through the 7 discussion-based sessions, you will:

• Evaluate and improve how you help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Analyze and explain the importance of helping students connect God’s world and Word.
• Identify and explain what connecting what God’s world and Word looks like.
• Document biblical principles you want your students to connect to the part of God’s world they are studying.
• Get your students even more engaged in connecting God’s world and Word by having your students learn new biblical principles and/or helping your students make new connections between biblical principles they already know and the part of God’s world they study.
• Prepare for and teach a lesson designed to help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Increase your commitment to helping your students connect God’s world and Word.

Download a sample session.

This kit is 1 of a 4-part series:

1. Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word
2. Use Assessment
3. Use Questions
4. Meet Student Learning Needs

Assessment helps students learn. You know this.  Assessment can also help your students connect God’s world and Word.

Want to work with your colleagues to better use assessment? If so, then purchase Use Assessment (US$25), a discussion-based kit with 7 sessions.

These 7 sessions will help you…

• Evaluate and improve your use of assessment to help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Analyze and explain how assessment can help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Identify and explain what types of assessment can help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Make one assessment even better.
• Prepare your students for and give an assessment that requires your students to connect God’s world and Word.
• Use your assessment data to help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Increase your commitment to using assessment to help your students connect God’s world and Word.

Download a sample session.

This kit is 1 of a 4-part series:

1. Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word
2. Use Assessment
3. Use Questions
4. Meet Student Learning Needs

To connect God’s world and Word, your students need to think. Asking questions is an effective way to get your students to think and to make connections.

Want to work with your colleagues to get better at using questions? If so, then purchase Use Questions (US$25), a discussion-based kit with 7 sessions. These 7 interactive sessions will help you…

• Evaluate and improve your use of questions to help your students connect God’s world and Word.
• Analyze and explain why God asks questions.
• Analyze and explain how questions help students connect God’s world and Word.
• Understand and apply the characteristics of good questions.
• Document and then ask your students questions to help them connect God’s world and Word.
• Get your students to respond sincerely to the questions you ask.
• Increase your commitment to using questions to help your students connect God’s world and Word.

Download a sample session.

This kit is 1 of a 4-part series:

1. Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word
2. Use Assessment
3. Use Questions
4. Meet Student Learning Needs

If you want to help your students connect God’s world and Word, meet their learning needs. Meeting your students’ learning needs involves defining and exploring the needs, taking action, and looking at the results.

Want to work with your colleagues to better meet student learning needs? If so, then purchase Meet Your Students’ Learning Needs (US$25), a discussion-based kit with 7 sessions. As a result of completing these 7 sessions, you will…

• Define and meet your students’ learning needs.
• Help your students better understand the importance of connecting God’s world and Word.
• Help your students better understand that God’s Word can be connected to the part of God’s world they are studying.
• Help your students understand more biblical principles that connect to what they study.
• Provide the engaging instruction your students need in order to connect God’s world and Word.
• Provide time during class for your students to reflect on how God’s world and Word are connected.
• Demonstrate your commitment to meeting your students’ learning needs.

Download a sample session.

This kit is 1 of a 4 part series:

1. Help Your Students Connect God’s World and Word
2. Use Assessment
3. Use Questions
4. Meet Student Learning Needs

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