Curriculum Volume 9 Scope & Sequence
What’s in the Bible? Church Edition Volume 9 [Isaiah, Jeremiah & The Prophets]
In Volume 9: God Speaks! [Isaiah, Jeremiah & the Prophets], you will meet the prophets of the Old Testament – from Isaiah and his hope-filled prophecies to Daniel in the lions’ den and Jonah and the whale.
Volume 9 contains 4 weeks.
Week 1: The children will learn about the Prophets – God’s special messengers to the people.
Week 2: The children will learn about the prophetic books and prophetic oracles.
Week 3: The children will learn about the Major Prophets (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel and Daniel).
Week 4: The children will learn about the Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi).
| Element | Focus | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Video 1 | Welcome | Buck Denver is making a timeline of his life, starting with his birthday. |
| Small Group 1 | Relationship Building | Each child will build a timeline of his or her life throughout the month, starting with their birthdays. |
| Video 2 | Learn: Prophets | Learn who the prophets are, and what books they wrote. |
| Small Group 2 | Sunday School Lady Prophet Jam | Each group answers questions and tries to put the books of the prophets in order as quickly as possible. |
| Video 3 | Learn: What do prophets do? |
Sunday School Lady explains that prophets are a lot like alarm clocks, sent to wake the Israelites up from disobeying God! |
| Small Group 3 | Sound the Alarm & Dr. Schniffenhousen's Timeline | First, play a fun question-and-answer game to review the video content. Each child will build a prophet timeline throughout the month, starting with adding the major empires. |
| Video 4 | Bible What's It? | Trivia Time! Game that reviews the day's lessons. |
| Small Group 4 | Bible What's It? and Recap | Recap! This is a time to review the day's lessons, and reflect and pray before ending class. |
| Element | Focus | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Video 1 | Welcome | Buck Denver is making a timeline of his life and today he adds his siblings and pets. |
| Small Group 1 | Relationship Building | Everyone continues to work on their timelines by adding siblings and pets. |
| Video 2 | Learn: Who are the prophets? | Meet all of the prophets in this fun video! |
| Small Group 2 | Dr. Schniffenhousen's Timeline | Children will add the prophets to the timeline they are building throughout the month. |
| Video 3 | Learn: Messages from God | Sunday School Lady explains the four different types of oracles - or messages - the prophets shared. |
| Small Group 3 | Magic Flannelgraph Detective Game | This activity encourages kids to look in their Bibles to find the answers to questions. |
| Video 4 | Bible What's It? | Trivia Time! Game that reviews the day's lessons. |
| Small Group 4 | Bible What's It? and Recap | Recap! This is a time to review the day's lessons, and reflect and pray before ending class. |
| Element | Focus | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Video 1 | Welcome | Buck Denver is working on a timeline of his life and today he adds his first day of newsman school. |
| Small Group 1 | Relationship Building | Each child continues to make the timeline of his or her life by adding their first day of school. |
| Video 2 | Learn: Isaiah, Jeremiah & Lamentations | Sunday School Lady reviews the stories of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations in this video. |
| Small Group 2 | Snooze You Lose & Dr. Schniffenhousen's Timeline | First, play a fun game where the kids "buzz" in their answers to questions about the video. Then add Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations to the prophet timeline. |
| Video 3 | Learn: Ezekiel & Daniel | Ezekiel and Daniel have amazing stories about following God and doing some crazy things! Learn about them in this video. |
| Small Group 3 | Shading Art Picture | In this art activity, kids draw the stories of Ezekiel and Daniel, then add the two prophets to their prophet timeline. |
| Video 4 | Bible What's It? | Trivia Time! Game that reviews the day's lessons. |
| Small Group 4 | Bible What's It? and Recap | Recap! This is a time to review the day's lessons, and reflect and pray before ending class. |
| Element | Focus | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Video 1 | Welcome | Buck Denver finishes the timeline of his life by adding a dream for the future! |
| Small Group 1 | Relationship Building | Everyone finishes their timelines by adding their dreams for the future. Encourage everyone to share! |
| Video 2 | Learn: Minor Prophets | Learn about all of the minor prophets in this video. |
| Small Group 2 | Dr. Schniffenhousen's Timeline | First, answer questions and collect cards about the minor prophets and add them all to the prophet timeline to complete it! |
| Video 3 | Learn: The Prophets | Review the prophets with an unforgettable song from Clive, Ian and Sunday School Lady! |
| Small Group 3 | Prophets Review | Discussion and review questions to wrap up the lessons about the prophets. |
| Video 4 | Bible What's It? | Trivia Time! Game that reviews the day's lessons. |
| Small Group 4 | Bible What's It? and Recap | Recap! This is a time to review the day's lessons, and reflect and pray before ending class. |