Come See the Annie Vallotton Bible Illustrations Collection Online at Rotation.org! These images are great for teaching, illustrating handouts and church newsletters, projecting in worship and teaching events, and more. They’re free to the supporting members of Rotation.org. The Griggs-Vallotton collection is organized into four categories. Jesus and the 12 Disciples Jesus and Peter Jesus: […]
The Christian educators and I over at www.rotation.org have been posting a lot of great ideas for teaching and celebrating Lent and Holy Week here in 2021 at home, with families, and with in-person social-distancing in mind at church and at home. Some of my favorite ideas re-imagine the “stations” of the cross as walk-through […]
Teaching with Bible Maps by Rev. Neil MacQueen Print the PDF here In this article: Intro Why teach with maps Example of teaching a story with a map Young Children and Maps 15 lesson ideas for teaching with maps Tips for displaying maps Note: I have updated this article and posted it over at www.rotation.org […]
Over at www.rotation.org we’ve created a presentation of some of our FAVORITE FREE “at-home” Advent and Christmas resources for families. Check out the video and go to www.rotation.org/pages/advent to see all the links to our favorites. Go to a menu of links to all the resources seen in the presentation Download article as PDF
Rotation.org has added a brand new forum all about Preparing for Advent 2020 worship, Christmas programs, teaching, at-home traditions, Live Nativity, and Blue Christmas, favorite Christmas videos, Zoom singing and worship, and an “Advent Haggadah” — all with an eye toward adapting to the restrictions and realities of the COVID pandemic which churches and our […]
2020, Advent, COVID, Nativity, teaching, traditions, worshipRotation.org’s Advent Forum has a terrific bunch of Advent and Christmas ideas, lesson plans, video clips, and ideas for celebrating Advent and Christmas in the year of the COVID-19 pandemic when so many social-distancing restrictions will affect our regular traditions and gatherings and have canceled many community and traditional events. Download article as PDF
Advent, Christmas, COVID, ideas, lessons, worshipI no longer recommend NEST videos as a matter of course. There are many good animated and non-animated Bible videos to teach with. Look up your Bible story in the lessons archive at www.rotation.org and look in the “Video Workshop” topics for that story to see all the videos that are being recommended for that […]
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This page lists the FORTY LESSONS in Life of Christ CD (now out of print) The Life of Christ CD webpage is at https://sundaysoftware.com/life-of-christ-2/ Each lesson presentation includes graphics, animation, sound, narration, bible text and a discussion question. The list below gives you the discussion question. Presentations can last between 6 and 8 minutes in […]
A CREATION STORY LESSON by Neil MacQueen Using the interactive Creation Story found in Awesome Bible Stories software (now free to the supporting members of Rotation.org) A newer version of this lesson is posted at Rotation.org: https://www.rotation.org/topic/295011598215931882?reply=295011598215931898#295011598215931898 INTRODUCTION The Genesis 1 story of Creation is one of the most beloved and quoted scriptures in the […]
Computer Software Lesson for Psalm 23 by Neil MacQueen Check out the new Psalm 23 lesson plan I wrote for the Writing Team here at Rotation.org The following lesson ideas also works for other memorable psalms, such as Ps 8 and 51. Point of View: Psalm 23, has been called “The Gospel in Miniature” and […]
Your students join Captain Paul Hammer, Lt. Stu Dent, and Shelbot the Overly Brainy Robot on a “Great Commission Adventure” to teach and learn the Gospel on newly discovered worlds. Jesus in Space features three complete interactive lessons set in a space-themed adventure: 1) The Baptism of Jesus and John the Baptist 2) The Last […]
“At Home in God’s Kingdom” Lesson Plans for Teaching about the Kingdom of God from Neil MacQueen, Sunday Software → You may also be interested in my single software lesson plan on the Kingdom Parables (seed, leaven, pearl, treasure) → Update: I’ve updated and posted many of the following lesson ideas in the Kingdom Parable […]
Delivering Better Children’s Sermons an article by (Rev.) Neil MacQueen, www.sundaysoftware.com Heard any good children’s sermons lately? (Me either.) We’ve been attending a new church lately, and of the five different staff people we’ve heard deliver the children sermon, only the retired youth minister did a good one. The others, including those by the […]
More screenshots from our Elijah and Jonah CD… Note: This software is now a free download for the members of Rotation.org. Check it out! Menu to Jonah’s Story Order Game. Here’s a “map” to the interactive options at the end of the Elijah-Ahab-Still Small Voice story. CLICK to enlarge. Download article as […]
Go see the new video clip presentations about the Rotation Model (I made them for Rotation.org!)You can print the following article as a PDF by clicking the print link at the bottom of the page.Why is the “Sunday Software guy” writing about the Workshop Rotation Model for Sunday School? Because I first started teaching with […]
Sunday Software’s Suggested Minimums and Recommended Hardware for Computers in Christian Education =This article is our final recommendation on hardware for our software. We have closed the retail part of our ministry and donated all our software to www.rotation.org. Read about it! Please note: This site is in the process of closing. Some theme, font, […]
A Computer Workshop Lesson about Zaccheus from Neil MacQueen. www.sundaysoftware.com Luke 19:1-10 This lesson is for use with the Zaccheus story found in Awesome Bible Stories ► Related Resource: Print our page of screenshots showing the narrated study notes found in the Zaccheus story. I love teaching Zaccheus because: a) He is short like our […]
Spreading the Good News: Book of Acts DVD #11 I have written teaching guides for each of the DVDs in the What’s in the Bible? series and donated them to the supporting members of Rotation.org. Check them out here. Each guide has notes specific to the particular DVD (there are differences from DVD to DVD). […]
Jesus Feeds the 5000 is a free lesson set from Neil MacQueen, Sunday Software The 5 Loaves ~ 2 Fishes software referenced in these lessons can be downloaded for free by the supporting members org Rotation.org along with the game and teaching guide. More Jesus Feeds the 5000 lesson plans of all kinds can be […]
Teaching about Prayer an article by (Rev.) Neil MacQueen, Sunday Software “Prayer” is a topic and practice that deserves a church’s full attention at every level of its life and program. This article addresses some key issues and shares MANY techniques particular to prayer in the Sunday School classroom. Among other things, I hope you […]
Notes on my lessons about… ACTS 16: Paul and the Philippi Jail I’ve done the Acts 16 story of Paul & Silas in the Philippi Jail in two different churches. Here are some of the details of how we did each. NOTE: The photos on this page are from our SECOND VERSION of the jail. The FIRST […]
The following “Zombies Lesson Set Worship Suggestions” were written as an additional resource to our four lesson set about “going to church” (and not being a “zombie” about it!). See the four lessons here. Note: The software is now available as a FREE DOWNLOAD to the supporting members of Rotation.org. These worship suggestions were written […]
an article by Neil MacQueen Last Updated June 2020 Still nothing Bible-content-y that I’m excited to recommend for children. However, there are a number of “learning apps” for older students and youth for tablets that are getting used in public schools which a sharp teacher could adapt for Sunday School use. The issue, as always, […]
Note: I’ve donated all my “Sunday Software owned” software for free downloading by the supporting members of Rotation.org. Many of the following titles are part of that collection. I continue to maintain this page for those who own these titles or come across them. For lots of different kinds of Lent and Holy Week Lessons, […]
