The First Week: Study Helps Jeopardy – Mentors/Minions
During the first week of Seminary, it’s suggested that you teach a lesson on the study helps in the scriptures to help students get more out of their gospel study. New Testament Study Helps Jeopardy is an online Jeopardy-style game I made for my class to use for this purpose this year. It’s slanted toward New Testament. Some of these…
Treasures in Heaven
NEW BEGINNINGSTreasures in Heaven How many of you have heard of a Hope Chest? A hope chest is a chest where girlskeep special things they have made or purchased to use in their future marriagesand families. Tonight we are going to talk about filling a very different kindof hope chest. We will not fill it with earthly treasures of silver…
Seminary and Scripture Mastery Teaching – A Year in Review
Now that my seminary school year is finished (yours still may be going), it is time to review several items so that I can analyze my teaching and any areas of focus needing help for next year. Here is a link to the Teaching Emphasis that CES needs us to use as we work with our students. To be able…
Ether 13, 14, & 15 – Building a City
[example of student work – to see up close, click on picture] Today we covered Ether 13, 14, & 15. I started off by drawing a city silhouette on the board and then asked the students, “Of all the cities you could live in, which one would it be and why?” (from the lesson manual) The students call out a…
Mormon 1-6: Is My Lantern Completely Clean?
[picture of a half-cleaned lantern] Today the students presented their research on Mormon 1-6. But before we started, I showed them a lantern that was very dirty on one side and freshly cleaned on the other. I asked them, “How easy would it be to see if this lantern were completely filthy?” Then, “How easy to see if this lantern…
Gospel Feud WITH Survey Results
Instructions: Separate into two teams. Two players, one from each team, face off to answer a question (example: “Name the hour that you get up on Sunday mornings”) to earn the right to control the board. The player who comes up with the most popular answer on the survey has the right to play or pass. The team playing the…
Awesome Activities for LDS Church members
