Description
The Word in Motion Old Testament Bible curriculum takes the intimidation out of teaching Scripture by combining streaming video instruction with vibrant illustrations, fun-to-read narratives, engaging discussion questions, and memorable character profiles. It tells the story depicted in Scripture in an easy-to-follow, chronological format that equips your student to know, live, and share the Word of God more. Developed in cooperation with Walk Thru The Bible, this curriculum also gets kids up and moving to help them remember the key people, places, and events from every book of the Bible!
Bible Curriculum Overview
When we offer our students opportunities to learn in different ways (including movement), abstract concepts click, and learning sticks in new ways. Each Old Testament lesson incorporates multiple learning approaches—seeing, hearing, moving, talking, and repeating—in a way that engages your student’s head, heart, and hands.
Students will learn:
- Keyword memorization to remember important themes of each book of the Bible
- Scripture memorization
- Biblical narratives that present key people, places, events, and important themes of the passage(s) covered by each lesson
- Discussion questions
- In-depth character study of key Bible characters
- Introduction to apologetics
The content of The Word in Motion courses is non-denominational. However, basic doctrines and apologetics that have been historically agreed upon by the church are presented in each lesson. Among the doctrines discussed are the fall of man, sin nature, worship, idolatry, sabbath rest, miracles, repentance, God’s sovereignty, giving, the problem of evil, prophecy, redemption, and many others.
There are 30 lessons total in this course. Lessons 1–15 teach students the story of the Old Testament, starting with Creation and culminating in the return of the Jews from Babylonian exile and the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem:
- Lesson 1 Creation & Fall
- Lesson 2 Flood & Nations
- Lesson 3 Abraham & Isaac
- Lesson 4 Jacob & Joseph
- Lesson 5 Moses
- Lesson 6 Passover
- Lesson 7 The Law, the Tabernacle, Offerings & Feasts
- Lesson 8 Spying, Dying, Second Law
- Lesson 9 Joshua & the Twelve Tribes
- Lesson 10 Judges & Ruth
- Lesson 11 Samuel & Saul
- Lesson 12 David
- Lesson 13 Solomon, Bad Kings, & the Prophets
- Lesson 14 Scattered, Exiled, Returned, Temple
- Lesson 15 Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah, & Waiting for Christ
Lessons 16–30 familiarize students with each of the 39 books of the Old Testament:
- Lesson 16 Genesis & Job
- Lesson 17 Exodus & Leviticus
- Lesson 18 Numbers, Deuteronomy, & Joshua
- Lesson 19 Judges
- Lesson 20 Ruth
- Lesson 21 1 Samuel
- Lesson 22 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles & Psalms
- Lesson 23 1 Kings, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, & Song of Solomon
- Lesson 24 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Hosea & Amos
- Lesson 25 Habakkuk, Isaiah, Jeremiah & Lamentations
- Lesson 26 Joel, Micah & Zephaniah
- Lesson 27 Jonah, Nahum & Obadiah
- Lesson 28 Daniel & Ezekiel
- Lesson 29 Ezra & Esther
- Lesson 30 Haggai, Zechariah, Nehemiah & Malachi
Notebooking Journal
The notebooking journal provides a place for your students to record their learning and complete hands-on activities.
What’s Inside?
- Notetaking pages for students to take notes after each story
- Bible verse copywork in both print and cursive
- Coloring pages
- Review questions to help students recall the stories they learned
- Activity and prayer pages for each lesson
- Flash cards to help students memorize and review keywords and motions
- Beautiful, full-color Miniature Book for your student to create to recall facts and information learned in each lesson
- Helpful and engaging graphics to help your student visualize and understand concepts
Lesson Plans and Materials
This course is designed to be done 4 days a week in 30-45 minute segments for 30 weeks. Detailed lesson plans, including a suggested daily schedule, are available to download from Book Extras. As a parent, you’ll guide your student through the Old Testament coursework. We include various teaching tools for you to leverage so you can do this confidently.
Teaching tools for this course include:
- Streaming video instruction
- Biblical narratives that tell the story in chronological order
- Discussion questions
- Character profiles
- Essential doctrines and apologetics
- Scripture readings
- Full-color visual aids
- An overview of every Old Testament book
- Insightful articles that bring to life many facets of Biblical history and culture
Engaging Video Lessons Included
Each lesson begins with a short video lesson lasting four to five minutes. Author and speaker Rachael Carman briefly introduces the lesson, providing background, context, and a related Bible story. She will then demonstrate the motion or motions that go with the lesson. More motions are added with each video lesson so that, eventually, students can present a 40-point outline of the Old Testament, complete with motions and keywords that help them remember each one.
Watch Lesson 1 of the free streaming video lessons that are included.
Product Flip Through
Look inside the textbook and student notebook for The Word in Motion.