Each book of the Bible has a one-page "cheat sheet." This means there are 66 pages (plus a table of contents and separation pages between the Old and New Testament) in this document. I decided to print them all out, hole punch them, and put them in a binder that any of us could use whenever we wanted. Here is a picture of the book I made. (Aren't I the craftiest thing ever?! Ha ha!)
Each of the cards looks like the one below with things like book number, author, date written, claims to fame, famous stories included, most famous verses, and important points about the book.
You can see that each of the cards looks identical (below). I personally chose not to print mine in color just to save ink, but you can obviously do color if you so choose:
So what can you do with these cards? I brainstormed with my cousin's wife (whom I am homeschooling with) and we came up with a ton of different ways. During our short review, we simply let the kids flip through them, asked them to study one, and read through them. But we really think you could use these very well in your homeschooling community. Some of our ideas included:- Actually having your child learn one card a week. They are going to be quizzed on anything on that card and have to study it and learn about it. I actually think this is probably the most appropriate use for a homeschool environment. You purchase the package, print them out, put them in a binder like I did and then use them as part of your Bible curriculum for the year.
- Play a game using the cards with multiple students. Have them compete against each other answering questions about a certain book that they studied. I think this would work really well in the homeschool community we have set up here at our house. With so many kids close in age we could have a real contest to learn the details behind the stories.
- If you were using this with a Sunday School class you could possibly laminate them and have each kid take turns studying different pages. Lots of potential with how you could integrate them with a church for sure.
- Simply using the sheets in conjunction with your own Bible study. You can have them on hand to refer to and put a book you are reading in context. If I am being honest, I think that this is the least likely option as there is already a lot of this in most Bibles people use. Most Bibles provide an "introductory page" before each chapter which includes a lot of the information that is on each of these sheets. However, I do think the way they are laid out in this guide is much more user friendly.
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