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Importance of lesson preparation This activity explains different ways teachers present the gospel.
1) you can simply share the cake with your hand, and without care give it to your brother; or
2)you can prepare this peace of cake carefully, put on a plate and give it.
You can compare this experience with the way you teach the gospel in your class....
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Temple WorkHold up the candy and say " I need a volunteer, and maybe this will encourage you," Give the volunteer the opened candy bar and say this is your task "eat chocolate, but you cannot bend your arms or waist or legs. Imagine that you don't have joints." Have her struggle for a bit and then hold up another chocolate bar and...
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Example of ChristBeforehand set up two tables next to each other. On one table build a structure with one set of blocks (the more complex the better); place a box over it to make sure it cannot be seen. On the other table provide a stack of blocks identical to the ones used to build your structure. Choose a child to come up to the table...
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Presentation of a LessonYou have a really good cake on the table. You ask if anybody would like a piece of cake. Pick someone, tell them to come up to the front and put on the apron (it is a messy cake). Then, grab a piece of cake with your hands, and throw it at the unsuspecting victim. Ask the rest of the class if they would like a piece of...
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It's in the PresentationTo begin the lesson, pass around the muffin box with a mix inside. Have students look at the box. Smell the box. Ask them what their opinions are. "It's just a box." Next pass around the freshly made muffins in the basket. Ask the students to look at the muffins and smell them. What is the difference? "The second...
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The Importance of Being Spiritually PreparedSoon after you begin teaching the class, ask for a volunteer to come up. When someone has come up, ask them to finish teaching the lesson and then sit down. After they have been trying to teach something for a short while, stand up and ask them how they felt. Ask if it would have been a little bit easier if you had given...
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Lesson preparationWhen teaching primary teachers the importance of being prepared and knowing their lesson material relate it to the cake, which is on display.
Talk about how desirable it is, how it took time to prepare it and make it. Compare this to the lesson manuals and helps put out by the church for teaching. They are desirable and...
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Serving the GospelChoose a particulary good sport in the class to "honor", pointing out what a great person this is, and spend a bit of time singing thier praises. And because of all this, I want to share this beautiful cake with them. Then, instead of using the pretty things, grab a handful of cake, and plop it in their hands. It...
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Sharing the gospel is a "piece of cake"The teacher sits in front of the class devouring a piece of delicious chocolate cake, while verbalizing how delicious it is; how moist; how chocolatey; how delectable. The class watches and becomes a bit jealous. The teacher asks, "Oh, did you guys want some of this cake?" the class of course says "yes".
Compare that...
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Does it measure up?The following is from Teaching, No Greater Call, B: Basic Principles of Gospel Teaching--Use Effective Methods, 27: Choosing Effective Methods, page 92:
For example, a young missionary was teaching an investigator about the need for the gospel to be restored to the earth. The investigator responded that his church had...
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Children absorb what we teachSee how easily this stalk of celery took on the color of water in which it was sitting? Small children are just like that stalk of celery. They take on all the characteristics of the family around them. Is your home colored with anger, yelling, sarcasm, and criticizm? Or is your home colored with patience, cooperation,...
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Every person is important - parable of the muffinsThe first batch of muffins were light and fluffy and everyone fights for the last one. The second batch seems to be taking a long time to bake and doesn't look the same as the first. When they cool off they are hard and heavy. It is discovered that the missing ingredient, baking powder,
Baking powder is the ingredient...
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Experiment Upon the WordDecide beforehand which "theory" you are going to test. It could be something simple like theory of gravity, or something else that both you and your audience understand very well. I will use gravity for my example here. You say, "I am going to test the theory of gravity today. I have here some different size and weight of...
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It doesn't matter what pot you're inI taught the children the subject "Jesus Christ is my Example" by using 2 object lessons. I first displayed 2 exact plants planted in 2 different containers. One container was beautiful and the plant looked wonderful. The other container was chipped and awful looking and the plant appeared less desirable. I then had the...
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MagnificationTake your class or family outside and give one person the magnifying glass and another person the normal glass. See who can burn a hole in the paper. The lesson could take many direction after this:
In order to get quickly to the heart of a problem with a solution, you have to have concentrated effort.
Magnifying your...
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