🔹 SESSION 3: Planning & Presenting a Lesson (30 Minutes)
Theme: “From Scripture to Students — Prepare with Purpose, Teach with Passion”
⏰ Time Breakdown
Time Activity
0–8 min Teaching Time: The Anatomy of a Good Lesson
8–18 min Practical Exercise: Build a Simple Lesson
18–25 min Pair & Share: Present Your Lesson Plan
25–30 min Recap & Resource Highlights
📖 Key Scriptures
1. 2 Timothy 3:16–17 – All Scripture is God-breathed
“…useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness…”
2. Hebrews 6:1 – Progress toward maturity
“Let us move beyond the elementary teachings…”
3. 1 Corinthians 14:40 – Do all things in order
“…everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.”
📚 Mini-Teaching (8 min)
🔑 Teach the 5-Part Framework of a Lesson:
1. Bible Story or Scripture Focus
Choose one clear passage or story. Make sure you understand it deeply first.
2. Main Point or Goal
What do I want the children to remember and live out from this lesson?
3. Opening Hook or Warm-Up
A relatable activity or question that prepares their hearts (e.g. “Have you ever been
afraid?” before Daniel in the lions’ den).
4. Interactive Learning Activity
Game, object lesson, art, or drama — something that moves the lesson from words to
experience.
5. Wrap-Up & Prayer
Re-emphasize the main point. Pray over it. Invite student response.
🧠 Tip:
Don’t aim to “cover content.” Aim to “cause transformation.”
📝 Exercise: Build a Mini-Lesson (10 min)
Worksheet Prompts (each teacher fills out individually):
Section Your Entry
Scripture _____________________________________
Main Point _____________________________________
Hook Question/Activity _____________________________________
Core Teaching Plan _____________________________________
Response or Wrap-Up Plan _____________________________________
Example:
Scripture: John 6:1–14 (Jesus feeds the 5,000)
Main Point: Jesus provides more than enough when we give Him what we have.
Hook: “What’s the biggest meal you’ve ever seen?”
Activity: Count 5 loaves and 2 fish with paper cutouts. Kids walk around “sharing.”
Wrap-Up: Group prayer of thanks, sing “He's Got the Whole World…”
👥 Pair & Share (7 min)
Pair up with someone nearby.
Each person shares their mini-lesson idea.
Partners give encouragement and ask:
“How do you think this helps kids know or love Jesus more?”
🧰 Resources & Final Notes (5 min)
Briefly highlight:
How to use printed curriculum wisely (but not rigidly)
Supplemental resources (songs, visuals, videos)
Adapting for age-level: younger kids need short, simple segments; older ones may like
discussions
Encouraging Reminder:
“You don’t have to reinvent the wheel — just help the wheel roll toward Jesus.”