Brainstorming - OT

Brainstorming - OT - 1 Samuel

In my last post, I reviewed the scriptures for this week's Primary lesson from 1 Samuel. In this post, I've jotted down some ideas that came to mind about how I could approach teaching this lesson.

In 1 Samuel 9, Saul covered a lot of ground looking for the asses, crossing over half of the Promised Land! This post on iStudyEBS has a map showing the approximate area being covered, along with an interesting justification for the size of the search area. Their idea is that Saul had to cover a large area in order to be in the right place at the right time when Samuel was looking for a potential king for the Israelites. There could be an interesting geography lesson about the areas covered.
The BibleProject summary video of 1 Samuel makes a really interesting observation that the book charts a trajectory for Saul and David, which starts off with their humble beginnings, then rises to a peak where they have Heavenly Father's favour and everything's going right, but then they make misteps and descend. Maybe we could do something physics based where we make a paper or card based rollercoaster to mimic this trajectory. We could tie it into a discussion of energy conservation, and potential energy being converted to kinetic and heat energy.
When you have the story of David v Goliath, maybe it's best to keep it simple, tell the story as-is, and let the kids do something which uses their imagination (e.g. draw a picture or poster of the scene). (Or the same rollercoaster idea could be used to illustrate the energy that a small stone or marble can have.)
In 1 Samuel 18, tabrets are played for David. We could have a look at what this instrument is.

As always, I welcome any feedback, either in the comments below, or on the Twitter thread.

David vs Goliath. Photo by Astrid Schaffner on Unsplash

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For the time being, I'm going to switch formats for future lesson plans, and post my thoughts and plans on Twitter instead. Twitter's terseness makes it much quicker to write, which is ideal as I don't often have time to write the more expansive blog posts. (It's also perhaps a bit more readable too, for anyone with a cursory interest but who doesn't have time to digest the lengthier posts here.) At some point I'll come back and revisit this, with a view to having detailed lesson plans and explanations for as much of the scriptures as I can. In the meantime, you can find me over at https://twitter.com/bobby_science .

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