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Digging Up Mesopotamia For The Teacher
Student Products: Provide
opportunities for your students to respond to these projects in as many
and as varied ways as possible. Sometimes students will try to use the
same skill to respond to each assignment. Require a minimum number of
Response Styles so each student will experience several ways of
producing an answer. Some suggestions for Response Styles: Original
art (drawing, painting, modeling, etc.), Diorama, PowerPoint
(multimedia) presentation with live or recorded narrative, audio tape,
video, radio or TV style (simulated) broadcast, essay, paragraphs
(compare, contrast, persuasive, descriptive, narrative, how-to), debate,
database manipulation, music composition, plan and execute teaching a
lesson to younger students. Be sure to encourage the inclusion of music
(clips) in any class presentation. Visuals (live, 3D, computer generated,
hand generated, still and animated) always add to a presentation and
can be required to extend the assignment or to reach a student's
strength. For
The Students: Bible Spinouts Find
out about Ur of the Chaldees. Use a Bible Concordance, and Bible maps
and gazetteers. Find
out about Abram (Abraham). Use a Bible Concordance, and Bible maps and
gazetteers. Abram
(Abraham) is one of the best known citizens of Ur. Think about the
inside and outside influences you experience. Make a list of as many as
you can in a few minutes. Organize them into two lists labeled Negative Influences and Positive
Influences. Now think about what you are learning
about Mesopotamia. What influences might have been present to urge Abram
to stay in Ur? . Make a list of as many as you can in a few minutes.
Provide support (a short reference to something you learned) for each
influence you list for Abram. Organize them into two lists labeled Negative
Influences and Positive
Influences. How would the influences on Abram be different from
yours? Why did Abram make the choice to leave?
Discuss what this reveals about him. Make a list of Abram's character
traits that you discover. What are some techniques that can be used to
shield yourself from the negative influences around you. Use a Map to trace the route Abram
probably took to Canaan. Find the distance in miles and in kilometers. Make
a list of the ways an inhabitant of Mesopotamia would have spent an
average week. Then organize your list into three groups: Neutral,
Good, Bad. Use the Standards of Right and Wrong that you understand
to designate activities as either Good
or Bad. For each, write a
brief reference to a Principle from the Bible or from your training. If
you cannot discover a principle involved, place the activity in the Neutral group. Develop one
of the activities from your list into a Compare/contrast paragraph or
essay. What evidences are there of God's influence? What evidences are
there of Satan's influence? |
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