15 Animal-Based Worship Talks Your Students Can Give
A while ago I shared some worship PowerPoints my students made that feature lessons about God found in nature. I also promised you more as we progressed through The Big ...
Everything You Need to Pull Off A Student-Led Week of Prayer
Before starting my own blog, I worked with other teachers to contribute content to Circle. It's a great site for finding student activities, lesson plans and other teaching resources. (If ...
Woohoo! Our First Blog Award
Happy Valentine's Day! And along with all that excitement, I'm happy to announce that Inspired Class was chosen as one of the Best Teacher Blogs by We Are Teachers.
It's amazing ...
Torn Images Teach Kids How to Build A Healthy Self-Concept
One of the lessons in our current science unit, 'Taking Care of Yourself' is about self concept — what it is, how we build it up and how we tear it down. ...
Students Make Egyptian Obelisks and Peek-Inside Sanctuaries
You know me: I love a great project and Carmella Van Vleet's book, Great Ancient Egypt Projects You Can Build Yourself, is full of them. Unfortunately, I don't always have ...
Using Decorative Pizza Boxes to Collect Students’ Work
When students are making all kinds of great things during a unit of study, I hate to send their projects home one by one because they seem to get thrown ...
Stunning Egyptian Art Project Using Scratch Brite
If you've never used Scratch-Brite Paper, you will want to. This pre-inked gold color paper helps students create stunning pieces of artwork. I used some last week to help finish ...
Students Make Friend Want-Ads
Lesson 2 of our science unit 'What Am I Worth' gives young people advice on what to look for when choosing friends. After reviewing the lesson I asked my students ...
Valentine’s Bulletin Board: Paper Tree with Hanging Hearts
The inspiration for this Valentine's bulletin board came from a picture I saw on another blog while searching for things to make with toilet paper rolls (I only have hundreds ...
15 Worship Talks Featuring Animals
Kids of all ages enjoy learning about animals and nature, so whenever possible I like to include something about them in our morning devotions. Besides, it's an easy to way ...