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Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
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Class Summary
Reinforcing the social studies lesson that teaches about rules. Students should leave the class feeling comfortable with the concept of what a rule is, why we need rules, who makes rules, and what a bad rule is.
Lesson Slide
Main Teaching Points
- Explain: A rule is something that tells us what we can and cannot do.
- Explain: We follow rules because they keep us safe and make Jehovah happy.
- Explain: Jehovah gives us rules because he wants us to be safe and happy. Jehovah made the first rule.
- Read: Genesis 2:16,17 (Don’t eat from the tree.)
- Explain: Adam and Eve did not follow the rule and something bad happened.
- Explain: Sometimes people in the world make bad rules. They may make a rule that hurts someone or tells us to disobey Jehovah. We can only follow good rules. If we follow bad rules we will make Jehovah sad.
- Explain: We follow rules when we play games so that we can win.
Discussion Questions
- What is a rule?
- Why do we have to follow rules?
- Who made the first rule?
- What was the first rule Jehovah gave people?
- Did Adam and Eve follow the rule?
- What happened after Adam and Eve disobeyed Jehovah’s rule?
- Who makes the rules in your house?
- Who makes the rules at the kingdom hall?
- If a rule tells us to do something bad, should we do it? Why not?
In-Class Activities
- Color Category: The rule of this game is that you have to name something that is the color picked by the “Rule Maker”. (That would be you, the instructor.) If players name something that is not the color selected by the “Rule Maker”, they are out of the game. Play 5 rounds and then declare the winners. (More than one winner is fine.) Make sure to thank everyone for playing the game with you and clap for all of the students because they did a good job participating. (This will leave everyone feeling like a winner even if they didn’t make it to the final round.)
- Draw: Encourage the students to draw a picture of themselves in paradise, happy because they are following the rules.
- Play First Letter Name Game: The “Rule Maker” chooses a letter in the alphabet, and everyone else has to think of bible characters with a name that starts with that letter.
- Play Simon Says. To win this game you have to obey the rules said by the person who is Simon.