Awesome Bible Stories CD
Creation .... Adam & Eve .....Jacob & Esau... . Esther.... Zaccheus.......Parable of the Talents

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Stewardship Board Game
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This is a standalone 'flash' game that plays in your web browser. It is one of the learning activities found in the Parable of the Talents story on the CD. (1.9 mb file)

Download Talents Game
as a Zip File
And transport to another computer for use. This zip file contains a self-installing version of the Talents Game. You must have a zip utility to open it.

View/Print the Awesome CD Study Outline (250kb pdf file)

Hear some fun audio clips from the Jacob Story narrated by Gabby:
"Jacob's Stew"
"Esau gets Cooked"
500kb sound files

Listen to a clip of Original Music
"Persian Fusion" (300kb mp3)

View a Video Clip
featuring scenes, animations and games from the CD. (1 minute, 3mb)

View the Main Menu
Flash Animation
for Awesome Bible Stories

Customer Reviews!

Awesome Bible Stories CD features six animated Major Bible stories with fun interactive learning activities to help students dig into the story, remember it, and reflect on its life application.

Each story is faithfully retold through an exciting narration -rich with music, humor, and fun sound effects. Each story contains questions to consider and study notes for discussion. Each story has an interactive reflection activity, and several of the stories have games which deal with story content.

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.

A.B.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).

Sunday Software customers familiar with our previously released titles should note that this age range is a "little lower" than earlier titles. We have made a special effort to make most of the study content of this CD accessible and intelligible to non-readers and early readers. Some of the quizzes and question content will require that non-readers have help reading the text --(but they are meant to be discussed with an adult anyway).

7th & 8th graders will enjoy the animations and humor of this CD, all the activities, and the deeper study questions. 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.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 98se/ Me/XP/Vista or Mac OS X. 400mhz Minimum, higher mhz recommended, 96mb RAM minimum, 8 mb videoram or higher. Price: $25 for one $23 each for two-four copies $20 each for five or more $18 each for eight or more  ORDER Awesome Bible Stories (Originally titled "Volume 1")

Story Details...

STORY ONE:
Creation --see and hear the Creation Story in dramatic 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. 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, loving care, and our place in God's world. View the student handout for Creation story.

STORY TWO:
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. New in version 2.0...an Adam and Eve game about the story. View graphic of Adam & Eve Menu Detail   View Adam & Eve student worksheet

Introducing "Gabby" a.k.a. Gabriel ...Awesome Bible Stories' onscreen host and narrator for four of the six stories. Gabby has quite an amazing voice and dialect. Listen to Gabby's story narration in the Jacob Audio Clips here at this website.

Gabby also "hosts" on onscreen reflection activity dubbed "Gabby Talker." Learn more about that by reading the description here on the right >>

STORY THREE:
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 questions in-between the rounds! (see graphic at right>>)

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.

STORY FOUR:
Esther - see this amazing and often comical story retold with fun animation, sound effects, and fun voices. Over 14 minutes of story animation and narration and study notes, ...during which the kids can "boo along" by means of a button whenever Haman's name is mentioned (an old Jewish tradition). Our Esther unit includes a fun 2 minute video depicting how modern Jews celebrate Purim in a U.S. synagogue. This unit 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!" View the Esther student worksheet.

STORY FIVE:
Zaccheus -Enjoy a 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.

The life-application activity in Zaccheus is 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:
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 board game after the story for one or two players/teams. God expects us to be stewards of his blessings. This story will teach them how they can be. See the free downloadable version of this game.  View the Talents student worksheet

 

• Each story contains narrated background information, study notes to explore and questions to ponder.

• Each story has unique interactive activities that make learning the story fun.

• Each story has extra questions tucked-away in it for teachers to ask.

• Several of the stories have games with them.

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.

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Version 2.0 Price $25 for one
$23 each for two-four copies,
$20 each for five or more.
$18 each for eight or more 

Read about the way we handled the theology
of the Creation Story and Adam & Eve