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Awesome Bible Stories CD |
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Awesome Bible Stories CD |
 Six Great Stories on One Awesome CD
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View/Print the Awesome CD Study Outline
View our printable student handout for Esther's story |
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some fun audio clips from the Jacob Story narrated by
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  Awesome Bible Stories CDversion 2.0
Awesome Bible Stories CD features six animated Major Bible stories -each with its own fun interactive learning activities that help students dig into the story, remember it, and reflect on its life application. |
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Awesome Bible Stories CD is our most popular title ...and it's easy to see why!
Our design concept presents the stories in a memorable and fun way, providing appropriate background explanations to story content, explaining vocabulary, and zeroing in on the critical issues in these stories for kids. Our customers are also giggling at the humorous ways we have portrayed some of the characters and voices in these stories. Awesome CD's wide range is Kindergarten through 8th grade. With an 'optimal' age range of 1st through 5th grade. On average, each of the six stories and their follow-up activities will take between 15 to 30 minutes to complete, depending on how much time you and your kids take to go over each story (and how many times you replay each of the games). 7th & 8th graders will enjoy the animations and humor of this CD, all the activities, and the deeper study questions. And actually, we know many teens enjoy this CD because of its richness and sense of humor. Preschoolers enjoy everything but they will need a little bit of help working the controls, reading some un-narrated texts, and deciding which activities to do.
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STORY ONE: Awesome CD's Creation Story explains
in a kid-friendly way the profound vocabulary and meanings found
in Genesis 1. Through the story of Creation we see the power
and majesty of God, as well as God's joy and loving purpose in
Creation, and our
place in it. View the student
handout for Creation story. STORY TWO:
This story also includes an Esther Quiz that explores the meaning
of the story, and a fun "Haman vs Mordecai" game with
extra study questions tucked into it. Esther's story is truly
a wonderful drama with great content. Perhaps this CD was made
for "just such a time as this!"
Also included is the
life-application Zaccheus activity
titled "How do you measure up." Kids will rate
their responses to a series of questions about their spiritual practices
and Christian life to generate a score.
The questions themselves become a point of discussion, as will
the students scores. Click here to see one of the "question ~ measuring
devices" in action that the kids will use ...it's
a very small 14kb "flash" file. STORY SIX:
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The "Gabby Talker" graphic seen above is a screenshot of the reflection activity found in the Adam & Eve and Jacob & Esau stories that allows even non-readers to create Gabby reflections on subject matter. Gabby animatedly speaks what your student select for him using words from the story. This activity helps student create short sentences to express ideas from the story, or from their own thoughts about the story. For example, in the Jacob story, students can select words that express Esau's point of view. (As a teacher, the discussion possibilities are created by the differences in what the students create and play for the group). They can use it over and over again. In the Creation Story, Gabby Talker is a little different. Students select from Genesis 1's amazing vocabulary to create their own version of the Creation story. We call this activity a "Creation Power Poem." The idea that inspired this reflection activity was the abundance of AWESOME words found in Genesis 1. Especially in multiple computer settings, the group can listen to each other's Power Poems and discuss what the ideas behind those words mean to the students. "What do swarming and teeming tell YOU about God's desire for abundance?" "Good, good, very good. What's so important about the 'goodness' of Creation?"
"Jacob vs God" is a two-player wrestling game (our ode to the story of Jacob wrestling with God!). Bounce each other out of the ring, then answer a question correctly about the story and you're rewarded with another round of play.  Price: $27 for one $24 each for two-four copies $21 each for five or more $18 each for eight or more
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Reviews! We just received the Awesome
Bible Stories CDs and we absolutely love them! The workshop leader
, who couldn't imagine why I was waiting for this particular
CD, just called & said now she sees it was worth waiting
for. Another excellent job. I just got the Awesome Bible
Stories CD and it looks great. Keep up the good work.
Awesome is awesome. Especially
appreciated explanation of terms and creativity of poem with
feedback reading. Terrific graphics, too. A solid package from
which we'll get much use.
~Pat Hollenberg, First Baptist
Church, Appleton WI
Neil...Awesome Bible Stories
CD is awesome! We spent an entire hour using the Jacob lesson
and the "Midnight Wrestling Federation" game (in it).
The older kids really enjoyed it. Thanks for the effort! It's
very much appreciated here.
Got my
ABS (CD) today and just checked it out. Very cool!!!!! I love the
graphics and music. Nice job with everything :) |
View/Print
the Awesome CD Study Outline
(200kb pdf file)
View a printable student handout for Esther's story
View a printable student handout for Creation
View printable student handout for Parable of the
Talents
View printable worksheet for Adam &
Eve
God tells Jacob to take his wives and babies back home.
Each story is faithfully retold
through fun
animations and
narrations -that are rich with
content, music, humor, and fun sound effects.
Creation --see, hear
and interact with the Creation Story presented in a dramatic
kid-friendly animation. Reflect on
the power of Creation's words and meaning through a unique "Creation
Power Poem" activity. Play a game to get the days right. 
Adam & Eve --kids
enjoy our spirited retelling of the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden.
Animated & narrated study notes help them understand the strange and
sometimes difficult concepts found in this story. God wants us to obey
him, and stand up to admit our mistakes when God calls to us. Play an
Adam and Eve game about the story. 
Jacob & Esau --Nearly
10 minutes of animated narrated multimedia story PLUS learning
activities and a fun game. See Jacob win his pot of stew and
receive the blessing from his father Isaac. See him tricked by Laban, and wrestle with God to receive his new name, "Israel."
Uncover the meaning behind key words and concepts, and what this
story tells us about ourselves and our God. Have a bit of wrestling
fun in "Jake vs the Midnight Mauler (God)" a two
player wrestling game with story QUIZ questions in-between the rounds!
(see graphic
this page)
Kids can work
on Jacob and Esau's apologies in the Gabby Talker reflection
activity. God makes his covenant with imperfect people. We are
the people who wrestle with God and receive his blessing. We
are to reconcile with each other.
Zaccheus -Enjoy
the warmly told and uniquely animated story from Zaccheus' point
of view. Play the Zaccheus Zappin' arcade game to see how much
you remember from the story. Enjoy narrated study notes that
reveal the meaning of this story about a little man with the
big heart. Each of us, regardless of our background, is welcome
in Jesus' family.
Parable of the Talents -as students hear and see this unique parable unfold,
they will have option to select alternate phrases for parts of
the story that restate key concepts in a kid-friendly way. For
example, they can select alternate ideas to the old word "talents"
that make more sense to them when they hear it. (Of course, the
result is to help them KNOW what a "talent" IS in their
own language, but they'll think it's just fun). To reflect on
this parable, kids play an onscreen STEWARDSHIP GAME after the
story for one or two players/teams. God expects us to be stewards
of his blessings. This story and software teaches them how to be
good stewards.
