Old Testament Story ↔ Software Cross Reference

Creation:

• Awesome Bible Stories CD, that page has a link to my Creation lesson plan as well.
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible
• Charlie Church Mouse CD1
• See also my notes on Psalm 8 (creation psalm)  below on this page.

Adam & Eve

• Awesome Bible Stories, that page has a link to my Adam and Eve lesson plan as well.
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD

Cain & Abel

• See my set of 3 lessons for Cain & Abel. It includes a software, video and art lesson.

Noah

• Noah and the Ark CD
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD
• Charlie Church Mouse #1
• Kid Pix has a lot of animal/nature/water clipart/backgrounds. Lacking the Noah CD, teachers are having their kids illustrate part of the story and adding text that Kid Pix can speak aloud. Consider creating ‘dialog’ for Noah and his family (what they thought, what was going through their mind).

Abraham

• Abraham & Sarah CD –Call of, Covenant with, Laughter at the News, Near-Sacrifice of Isaac
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD
• See my 4-7 week lesson set on “Abraham & Sarah: The First “First Family“
• VIDEO: Nest’s Abraham and Issac DVD

Isaac

• His “near-sacrifice” is covered in a special way in our Abraham & Sarah CD
• He and Rebecca are briefly included Awesome Bible story’s Jacob and Esau
• Isaac’s birth story is told in Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD
• See my 4-7 week lesson set on The First “First Family“
• VIDEO: Nest’s Abraham and Issac DVD

Jacob & Esau

• Awesome Bible Stories CD
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD
• Bibleland.com (out of print)*
• See my 4-7 week lesson set on The First “First Family“

Joseph

• Joseph’s Story CD
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD: God Helps Joseph and Joseph’s Secret Identity
• Amazing Expedition CD (out of print)
• Bibleland.com CD (out of print)*
• VIDEO: Nest’s Joseph in Egypt and Joseph’s Reunion DVDs
• Free outline to TNT full length movie “Joseph”

Exodus, Numbers

• Exodus Adventures CD — 3 games: Moses, Burning Bush, Pharaoh & Plagues;  Crossing the Red Sea, Bitter Waters, Water from Rock; plus a game introducing Lev/Num/Deut.
• See our Exodus lessons (computer and otherwise), schedules and Egyptian Village
• See our 4 week lesson set on Wanderin through the Wilderness (Lev/Num/Deut)
• Life of Moses (out of print, use Exodus Adventures instead)*
• Fall of Jericho quiz game (themed on race to Jericho, can be about any subject you create questions about)
• Making of the Tabernacle –there’s an animation and virtual tour of the Tabernacle in the iLumina Bible software. iLumina also has some short animated scenes from the life of Moses.
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD has 6 story presentations of the Exodus story for preschool to 1st grade.
• Ilumina Bible DVD has animated videos on Baby Moses and Burning Bush.
• Teach the ORDER of EXODUS EVENTS using Cal & Marty’s Scripture Memory CD. To do this, instead of typing a verse, type a list of words the describe the events of Exodus. Cal & Marty will scramble them and kids must drag back into the correct order.  (BTW: I’m going to have the KIDS come up with this event order, edit it into Cal and Marty, then play their own game.)
• Teaching the Order of Events…lesson example:  In Cal & Marty create a verse titled “Exodus Events” and type the following words as your ‘verse’:   Joseph, Bullrushes, Killing-Egyptian, Flee-to-Midian, Burning-Bush, Plagues, Passover, Red-Sea, Miriam’s-Song, Complaining, Manna, Water-from-Rock, Commandments.  (Notice you need to hyphenate two word descriptions so that Cal & Marty keep them together when scrambling.)
• VIDEO:  Nest’s Moses DVD, and What’s in the Bible?’s DVD #2 Exodus, chapter 2.

Tabernacle

• Ilumina Bible DVD has several animated videos on the building of the Tabernacle and the objects in it.

Joshua/Fall of Jericho

• Learn about last part of Exodus journey using Exodus Adventures CD CD lesson 3.
• Fall of Jericho Quiz Program’s race across Sinai to Jericho is only a theme for the game, but you could create a question set about the Jericho story. Tip: include questions about the timeline of Joshua’s story in relation to other stories (such as Moses, Ruth, David) to put it in context. Include questions about geography (Jordan River, Dead Sea, etc).
• Play & Learn Children’s Bible CD for up to 1st graders has Jericho.
• Charlie Church Mouse 2 for up to age 9 has the story of the Walls.
• VIDEO: What’s in the Bible? DVD #4 Battle for the Promised Land

Judges, Gideon, Deborah, Samson, Ruth

• Jonah Ruth Samson CD
• Bibleland.com CD has these folks in it (now out of print)*
• Gideon’s “call” in Judges 6 is visually rich and could be illustrated with Kid Pix. It also has great dialog between Gideon and the angel, including “be not afraid” which makes it a natural for Let’s Talk CD in which the kids can recreate the dialog in a “today, their world, their excuses” scenario. How and where would the angel appear to you? What about your generation would the angel say God wanted to change?
• Deborah…I have an interesting lesson plan for Deborah that features a game you can use with other long passages.
• Samuel/Hannah  …see my lesson about Deborah for my suggestion on handling Hannah & Sam.
• Charlie Church Mouse #2 up to age 9 has part of the story of Ruth.
• Ruth 1:1-22  Whither thou goest…“is a great memory verse to learn using Cal & Marty’s Scripture Memory CD. What are some OTHER ways this famous verse could have been said?  Use Cal and Marty to create an extended variation. Or use Let’s Talk CD’s animated talk-back feature to do it. You can also rewrite Ruth and Naomi’s dialog using Let’s Talk CD from the point of view of Naomi, or Ruth: “what am I risking with my decision.” (I love lessons where the kids try to get into the character’s heads). You can also use Let’s Talk to have kids rephrase the lesson into a lesson about faithful friendship, and answer the question, “what places and situations will my friend go that I need to stand with them?” The animated teacher your kids create in Let’s Talk can be your kids retelling the main points in the story, condensing them. See our Let’s Talk description page for lots of lesson angles.
• RUTH lesson plan
• VIDEO: Nest’s Ruth DVD

Jonah

• Elijah & Jonah CD  -our Elijah & Jonah CD tells the entire story of Jonah in a multimedia rich way and includes games ‘on content’.

Kings

• Life of David CD   See my lesson plan and outline for this CD
• Anointing of David lesson outline
• Pathways Through Jerusalem CD has an entertaining King David section.
• Charlie Church Mouse #2 up to age 9 has David and Goliath.
• Bibleland.com CD (out of print)*
• There’s a David and Goliath animation in the iLumina Bible*
• More David lesson suggestions here 
• There’s a “match the Good and Bad Kings of Israel” activity tucked away in Fluffy & God’s Christmas CD, in the Promises Promises section.
• VIDEOS:  Nest’s David and Goliath DVD, Nest’s Solomon DVD
• VIDEO: What’s in the Bible? DVD #5: Israel gets a King

Prophets

• Elijah & Jonah CD (Widow of Zarephath, Elijah on Mt. Carmel, Elijah and Elisha).
• Adventures with Daniel CD covers writing on the wall and Lion’s Den. Go here for a Fiery Furnace lesson idea.
• Elisha and the Jars of Oil –Charlie Church Mouse CD #3 Pre thru Age 8
• Nehemiah Rebuilds the Wall –Charlie Church Mouse CD #3 Pre thru Age 8
• Daniel is included in Charlie Church Mouse #2 for up to age 9.
• More Daniel Lesson Suggestions Here
• Samuel is briefly introduced in the Life of David CD, and (now out of print) Bibleland.com CD. For early readers and preschoolers you can also find “God Talks to Samuel” in Play & Learn Children’s Bible. Use Cal and Marty’s Scripture Memory Game to work on 1 Sam 3’s several memorable and provocative memory verses (the story of God’s call to Sam). There’s several of them so your kids could hunt and decide, then tell you why they think it’s an important verse by adding a note or quiz with the verse in Cal and Marty. If you’re doing Eli and Samuel (1 Sam 3) try re-scripting the intriguing dialog of the verses using Let’s Talk CD. Let’s Talk is perfect for recasting stories, letting the kids come up with more explanatory dialog, and having them respond through their talking character to your questions. You can also use Kid Pix to illustrate the funny/amazing line from God in 1 Sam 3 where he says, “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make both ears of anyone who hears of it tingle.” Use Let’s Talk or Kid Pix to have the kids put words or images to the questions: What does a spiritual “tingle” feel, look, sound like?  How ELSE does a person know that God is doing something special to them or around them besides a “tingling” feeling? A person? A sense of confirmation and confidence, etc. Note that Samuel shared God’s message Eli, and Eli confirmed it was true.
• There’s a short “About Prophets” section in Fluffy & God’s Amazing Christmas Adventure CD that talks about what a prophet’s job is.
• Isaiah 9….wonderful counselor… Fluffy & God’s Amazing Christmas Adventure CD also has an interactive section on Isaiah 9.
• Use Let’s Talk CD to create an onscreen “prophet character” who you (or the students) provide new words to their message to have them speak it aloud.  Teach the students how to “speak like a prophet” (out-loud in the program) by having them create spoken responses to important issues facing Christians.
• Jeremiah 1 -Jeremiah’s Call is a long passage with many memorable and important ideas. Use Let’s Talk CD and the lesson concept “How Few Can You Do” described on the Let’s Talk CD lesson ideas page.
• Ezekiel Idea: create crossword and wordsearch puzzles about Ezekie content you’re studying using Bible CrossWords and WordSearch CD. Or, create a question set about Ezekiel’s BIG story in Fall of Jericho making game CD.
• Isaiah 6 “Send Me!  Holy Holy…coals to lips… lesson plan here.
• VIDEO:  Nest’s Elijah and Elisha DVDs
• VIDEO: Nest’s Samuel DVD
• VIDEO: Nest’s Daniel DVD
• VIDEO: What’s in the Bible? DVD #6: A Nation Divided, Kings and Chronicles: About Elijah and Elisha
• VIDEO: What’s in the Bible? DVD #9: God Speaks includes a good section on Jonah

Esther & Exile

• AWESOME BIBLE STORIES from Sunday Software does her story right!
• See my Esther “What Time Is It?” Clock Making Idea
• Charlie Church Mouse, Esther…a short presentation for Preschool-Age 7.
• Nehemiah Rebuilds the Wall –Charlie Church Mouse CD #3 Pre thru Age 8
• VIDEOS:  Nest’s Esther DVD, and What’s In the Bible? DVD #7: Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther

More on Nehemiah
Charlie Church Mouse 3 covers this story for the younger kids.

“Building” Lesson Idea for the Computer Lab:
I was always impressed with the fact that Nehemiah takes time to THANK all the builders. Usually you hear the names of kings and leaders, and God… but Nehemiah names names and tells what they did. Kids like to hear their own name, and it just so happens that two of our programs make the computer SPEAK OUT LOUD, “Let’s Talk” CD and Kid Pix.   AND…one of the funny things about the text-to-speech synthesis magic in these programs is that they sometimes mess up first and last names –much to the kids delight.

Springboarding off this…   what would a LIST OF THE KIDS’ NAMES sound like when spoken by your computers (as typed by the students) if they included  SPECIFIC WORD that described “things they have done to help build the kingdom”  …build the ‘walls’ of your congregation, become Pillars, helped build up the Sunday School, help build positive attitude at church and in worship. Etc etc.  What part of the building IS a certain kid?  Front door (welcome), Support (quiet but always there), Window (helps others see important truths). etc.  So in Kid Pix, you could import a student’s picture taken on a digital camera, and add building graphics, draw parts of the building that describe the student. Maybe add tools in their hands (or take photos of them holding tools)  and have your kids illustrate and print page of a KIDS IN A HALL OF FAME.  “Kaitlan Brooks … is our front door because she’s always smiling and makes every students feel welcome.”

Psalms & Proverbs, Job

• Psalm 23, Any Psalm or Proverb: This is a natural to memorize with Cal & Marty’s Scripture Memory CD
• Psalm 23 and Other Ps software lesson ideas
• Any Psalm can be illustrated with Kid Pix, taught as a Memory verse with Cal & Marty CD, or rewritten as a lesson in Let’s Talk CD by the kids (or teacher). In fact, one of Let’s Talk CD demo lessons is on Psalm 8. See Psalm 8 lesson plan.
• Job’s “conversations, dialog and arguments” seems a natural for Let’s Talk CD. See the lesson suggestions on the Let’s Talk page for specifics.
• Psalm 119’s metaphors for scripture/Word (lamp unto feet, etc) are used in Bongo Loves the Bible‘s “Cave” game.
• VIDEOS: What’s in the Bible? DVD #7 “Words that Make Us Wise“

Related Links:

• New Testament Cross Reference
• Advent/HolyWeek/Pentecost Pages
• VBS/Summer and Other Lesson “Sets”