Christian Religious Studies JSS 1 Curriculum Guides – God and His Creation (The Story of Creation, Marriage, Call to Service, Disobedience, Call to Repentance and Obedience)

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 1 – THE CREATION STORY

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Holography showing sequence of creation.

2. Students as human resources.

3. Natural school environment showing trees, birds, soil, rocks, stones, etc.

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. give a sequential account of the biblical narrative on the creation of the world.

2. state the purpose of the creation of human beings.

3. narrate the account of the creation of the creation of Adam and Eve.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. Biblical Account of the Creation, Gen 1 and 2.

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters” (Genesis 1:1-2).

14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; 15 and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so.

God is the creation of all things.

Everything in heaven and earth, God created them all.

God creates the light, atmosphere (sky), dry ground and plants, sun, moon and stars, birds and sea animals, land animals humans.

 

God’s creation of the earth is found in Genesis chapters 1 and 2 and consists of the following seven days of creation –

Day 1: Light – Genesis 1:3-5

Day 2: Atmosphere / Firmament – Genesis 1:6-8

Day 3: Dry ground & plants – Genesis 1:11-13

Day 4: Sun, moon & stars – Genesis 1:14-19

Day 5: Birds & sea animals – Genesis 1:20-23

Day 6: Land animals & humans – Genesis 1:24-31

Day 7: The Sabbath of rest – Genesis 2:1-3

 

2. Why God created Human Beings? 

• God created human beings to reflect His image.

• God created human beings to rule over creation.

• God created human beings to reproduce godly offspring.

• God created human beings for His glory.

• God created human beings worship Him.

• God created human beings to obedience.

 

3. Songs about Creation (in english and different nigerian languages)

Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy

Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy,

Thou art worthy, O Lord.

Thou art worthy to receive glory,

Glory and honor and power.

For Thou hast created, hast all things created,

For Thou hast created all things.

And for Thy pleasure they are created;

Thou art worthy, O Lord.

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. sequentially, tells the story of the creation.

2. leads students to read the story.

3. explains and discusses reasons why God made man and woman.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. participate in the discussion on God creation.

2. read and search Bible.

3. tell stories about creation.

4. copy points into notes.

5. draw some things created by God.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. give an orderly biblical account of the creation from day one to day six.

2. narrate the story of the creation of man and woman.

3. state at least two reasons why God made human beings.

 

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 2 – MARRIAGE 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. explain the meaning of the term “marriage”.

2. mention some functions of marriage.

3. mention types of marriage.

4. list the importance of marriage.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. The Meaning of Marriage – Gen 2:22 – 25 and Eph 5:21-31.

Marriage is a legal union between a man and a woman.

 

Bible Reading…. 

Genesis 2:22 – 25,

21. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs[g] and then closed up the place with flesh. 22. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib[h] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.

23. The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones

    and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called ‘woman,’

    for she was taken out of man.”

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.

 

Ephesians 5:21 – 3

Instructions for Christian Households

21 Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

22. Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

25. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

 

2. Functions of Marriage

1. Companionship

2. Procreation

3. Responsibility

4. Preventing STDs, HIV VIRUS/AIDS, etc.

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. guides students to read relevant Bible passages.

2. guides students in discussing ways marriages prevent the spread of STDs, HIV/AIDS viruses, etc.

3. takes students on field trips to churches, maternity homes, hills and teach them birth and wedding songs.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. watch and appreciate wedding pictures.

2. sing and dance to marriage and birth songs.

3. read Bible passages.

4. copy board summaries into their notes and role play wedding ceremonies.

5. go on field trips and discuss their observation during field trips.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. give the meaning of marriage.

2. state two functions of marriage.

3. give two reasons why man should not marry his fellow man and woman should not marry another woman.

4. list three things made by man.

5. list type of marriage.

 

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 3 – CALL TO SERVICE 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Students as learning resources

2. Posters of leaders

3. Newspapers showing photographs of leaders rendering services to humanity.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. explain the meaning of services.

2. mention examples of people who served in the bible.

3. narrate the sale of Joseph into Egypt and his control of the grain stores.

4. tell the story of Ruth’s faithfulness in service.

5. enumerate ways christian are called to the service of God and humanity and problems of service.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. Meaning of Service

Service is the action of helping or doing work for someone.

 

2. Example of people who served in the Bible:

• Joseph is sold to Egypt, Gen 37:12-36.

• Joseph serves in Egypt, Gen 41:37-57.

• Ruth serves her mother-in-law, Ruth 1:7-18.

 

3. Lessons from the service of Joseph and Ruth

1. They are both believe and have faith in God.

2. The are both humble and submissive to the will of God.

3. They refuse to give up despite their challenges.

4. They are both diligence and hard working.

5. They refuse to be intimidate.

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. guides students to read Bible passages.

2. guides students to discover problems and blessing in service.

3. leads students to deduce lessons from service lives of Joseph and Ruth.

4. guides students to assess qualities of some Nigerian leaders both past and present.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. read bible passages.

2. role play.

3. Participate actively in class discussions.

4. copy board summary.

5. deduce lessons and write same into their notes.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. narrate the story of the sale of Joseph into egypt.

2. recount the story of Ruth’s faithfulness in her service to her mother-in-law.

3. give an account of Joseph’s rise from slavery to governorship in egypt.

4. identify three blessings derived from rendering faithful service.

 

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 4 – DISOBEDIENCE 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Bible

2. Educational television

3. Film strips

4. Projectors

5. Students as learning resources

6. Printed or written copy of the national pledge

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. recognize disobedience as sin.

2. give biblical account of first human disobedience.

3. recall their own acts of disobedience.

4. identify consequences of disobedience against the national laws, e.g. vandalism on public properties, disobeying traffic light, etc.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. Biblical account of First Human Disobedience

Disobedience is the failure or refusal to obey stated rules and regulations or someone in authority.

 

Genesis 3:1-19.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

4 “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. 5 “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”

11 And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

12 The man said, “The woman you put here with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

 

2. Consequences of Adam and Eve’s disobedience. Gen 3:14-19.

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,

“Cursed are you above all livestock

    and all wild animals!

You will crawl on your belly

    and you will eat dust

    all the days of your life.

15 And I will put enmity

    between you and the woman,

    and between your offspring[a] and hers;

he will crush[b] your head,

    and you will strike his heel.”

16 To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;

    with painful labor you will give birth to children.

Your desire will be for your husband,

    and he will rule over you.”

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;

    through painful toil you will eat food from it

    all the days of your life.

18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

    and you will eat the plants of the field.

19 By the sweat of your brow

    you will eat your food

until you return to the ground,

    since from it you were taken;

for dust you are

    and to dust you will return.”

 

3. Learner’s Disobedience and Consequences 

Student’s Disobedience

• Absenteeism

• Lateness

• Noise making

• Exam malpractices

• Disrespect

• Intolerance

• Insincerely

• Lying, etc.

 

Consequences of Disobedience

• Punishment

• Failure or demoted

• Suspension

• Expulsion

• Loneliness and unhappiness

• Shame

• Bad Recommendation

 

4. Disobedience against the National Laws 

National laws are binding rules and regulations that are used to governor and maintain the national unity.

The consequences of disobeying national laws depending on the crime are as follows:

• Persecution

• Imprisonment

• House arrest

• Payment of fine

• Fortified properties

• Deportation, etc.

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. explains meaning of disobedience.

2. leads students to recognize disobedience as sin.

3. guides students to read bible passages.

4. guides students to respect and obey the laws of the nation using the national pledge.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. read individually the bible passages.

2. participate and copy down points in their notes.

3. write apology letter to parents. Bring reports of parents feeling at receiving apology letter.

4. recite the national pledge.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. explain the term disobedience.

2. give a biblical account of the first human disobedience.

3. mention two consequences of the disobedience of Adam and Eve.

4. state three acts of disobedience common among Nigerian Youths today.

 

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 5 – CALL REPENTANCE 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Student as learning resources.

2. Costume e.g crown, ashes, bell, etc.

3. Flip charts with songs of repentance written on them.

4. Pictures of Zacchaeus on the sycamore tree.

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. describe how David and Zacchaeus responded to the call for repentance.

2. give an account of the act of repentance of the Ninevites.

3. identify the demands to repentance on John the baptist’s hearers.

4. identify and discuss some consequences of lack of repentance.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. King David obeys God’s call to repentance. 2 Sam 12:7-13, Ps 51:1-19 and Zaccheus, Lk 19:1-9.

2. The people of Nineveh repented of their sins, Jonah 3:1-10.

3. John the baptist calls for repentance. Lk 3:1-14.

4. Consequences of Lack of Repentance, 1 sam 3:18 and 4:10 – 21.

• Rejection by God

• Spiritual death

• Eternal destruction

• Loss of vision

• Punishment

• Wrath of God

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher guides the students to read Bible passages and explains.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. role play and mimic

2. read Bible Passages.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. give account of the circumstances surrounding uriah’s death.

2. identify two (2) evidence of the repentance of the Ninevites.

3. list two acts of repentance and significant demanded by John the baptist.

 

 

THEME – GOD AND HIS CREATION 

TOPIC 6 – OBEDIENCE 

 

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

1. Bible atlases

2. Pictures/posters of Abraham leaving Ur of the Chaldeans, sacrifice of Isaac.

3. Costumes

4. Students as resource persons to act role play.

 

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. explain the term obedience.

2. narrate the story of the call of Abraham.

3. state the blessings from Abraham’s obedience to God’s call.

4. dramatize the story of the “sacrifice” of Isaac.

 

 

CONTENTS OF THE LESSON

FOCUS LESSONS 

1. Meaning of Obedience

Obedience is the behaviour that is generally acceptable by laws.

2. Abraham obeys God’s call

3. Blessing from obeying in God’s call. Gen 12:1-9 and the birth of Isaac in Gen 21:1-8.

4. Abraham demonstrates his obedience in the sacrifice of Isaac. Gen 22:1-18.

 

 

LESSON PRESENTATION

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

The teacher,

1. guides reading of Bible passages.

2. leads discussion on (blessings) accrued from Abraham’s obedience.

3. dramatisation of the “sacrifice” of Isaac.

 

 

STUDENT’S ACTIVITIES

The students,

1. listen and write down notes.

2. listen and participate in reading.

3. mention blessings accrued from obedience.

4. participate, volunteer to act, volunteer to bring costumes and act their roles.

 

 

LESSON EVALUATION

Students to,

1. give the meaning of obedience.

2. narrate the story of the call of Abraham and his response.

3. write three blessings of abraham for obeying God’s call.

4. dramatize the story of the “sacrifice” of Isaac.