You’re a principal, and you’re excited that teachers have helped their students connect 2 things: course content and Biblical principles. Now you want teachers to help their students connect 3 things: course content, Biblical principles, and creation-fall-redemption-restoration. Good.
 
Question: What are you going to do?
 
Here’s how Christian Academy in Japan (CAJ) took action: In Bible 9, students studied creation-fall-redemption for 4 days and then completed an assessment in which they applied creation-fall-redemption-restoration to a topic of their choice. (Students used a set of creation-fall-redemption-restoration questions to guide their application.) The Bible teachers were excited about the student learning results, some of which were shared with the high school principal.
 
Meanwhile, other teachers were talking about wanting to learn more about creation-fall-redemption-restoration. And some high school teachers were saying it would be helpful to know what exactly students were learning about creation-fall-redemption-restoration.
 
In response to teachers, the K-12 principals asked the Bible teachers to present to K-12 teachers a compressed version of the Bible 9 unit and the student learning results. The Bible teachers gave their presentation and then had teachers gather in groups to discuss how they could help their students connect what they study and creation-fall-redemption-restoration.
 
Here’s what CAJ teachers said when asked, “How did this presentation help?”

• Elementary: It helped me to better understand the big picture in terms of what we want students to learn.
• Middle school: I’m starting to think about math before the fall. I’m having thoughts I’ve never had before.
• High school: It really got me thinking about how I can do Biblical perspective throughout my class. In my health class, I can see how I can tie in creation-fall-redemption-restoration.

Want to know what was covered in Bible 9? Keep reading!
The Bible 9 teachers knew their students were studying a novel in English class. So, they asked the students about the themes in the novel. Then they asked the students what the themes of the Bible were, finally asking, “If you had to summarize the Bible in 1 sentence, what would you say?” Bible teachers followed up on this with instruction on each part of creation-fall-redemption-restoration, using the following questions as an outline:
 
Creation

1. How does God relate to everything that exists?
2. Out of what did God create everything that exists?
3. How does creation continue to relate to God now that it has been created?
4. For what purpose did God create everything that exists?
5. How does God want the different parts of creation to relate to each other?

Fall

1. How did the fall begin?
2. How does the fallen world compare to the originally created world?
3. What is the core of sin?
4. How does sin relate to us?
5. What are the effects of the fall?

Redemption

1. What is the situation that we need to be rescued/redeemed from?
2. What’s the solution to that situation?
3. How does God join us in our situation?
4. How does God defeat the force that’s holding us hostage?
5. How do we benefit from God’s victory?
6. How does God’s rescue of us matter for the rest of creation?

Restoration

1. What is God’s goal in restoring fallen creation?
2. How does God restore fallen creation?
3. How does the Holy Spirit make restoration happen?
4. What is the Church’s role in restoration?
5. What are the signs of restoration beginning?
6. When will restoration be complete?

*Here’s a tutorial designed to help you help your students connect 3 things: course content, Biblical principles, and creation-fall-redemption-restoration.