DANIEL Tips and Outline from Sunday School Software --1-800-678-1948

Outline to the Adventures with Daniel CD
from Sunday Software and Neil MacQueen

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Please note: Our General Teaching Tips and Lesson Ideas for all the Interactive Kids Bible CDs -of which Paul is part, are located at www.sundaysoftware.com/tips under the Interactive Kids link. That document has many more lesson suggestions in it.

IMPORTANT ! Before teaching with this CD, check to make sure the VIDEOS work in the Bible Time Theater section of the program. If the curtain just opens and closes without playing the video, you need to open the CD's files and double-click on the QTW211 folder and double-click the QT32.exe file to install Quicktime 2.1 (Version 2.1 is required to run the videos on the CD.). Follow the prompts. Also....If you get a "3mb Virtual Memory" or "xobglu16.dll" error message, see our solution at www.sundaysoftware.com/support

View and print my Daniel lesson plan which is part of my summer 2000 curriculum
at http://www.sundaysoftware.com/lessons/biblewahoo.htm

Our Outline and Teaching Tips for Daniel are provided to help you prepare lessons using the Daniel CD-ROM recommended in our catalog. If you are not familiar with this CD, browse through it now. It will give you a better feel for the program. Also read our “General Teaching Tips” for all the CDs in this series at www.sundaysoftware.com/tips They have numerous lesson plan suggestions.

What's the story of Daniel about?

Daniel is perhaps the most courageous person in the Old Testament who doesn't kill anybody! By being a faith role model, he brings the King to his senses. Good lesson stuff for kids! This CD does a great job on Daniel. It's one of my favorites in the entire series.

Take a quick look at the Kids Application Notes summaries in the Discover the Bible section; you'll see that the story of Daniel covers many subjects. Is the Fiery Furnace about friendship or faith? Is the Lion's Den about faith or fairness or courage? These are the two most familiar stories --but there are others..... The story of the handwriting on the wall and the prophecy of the end times speak to the role of prophets in our faith. Then there are the sad characters of Nebuchadnezzar and Darius. The book of Daniel takes aim at those who wield power foolishly and in an ungodly manner.

Unfamiliar with the book of Daniel? Read it! ...and then browse through the Hall of Fame section on the CD which highlights characters in the story.

Technical Notes:

If the videos don't run in the Bibletime Theater, explore the CDs files and find the Quicktime program on the CD and execute it. It will install Quicktime 2.x needed to run the videos. These videos won't run with later version. The program runs in a 640x480 window. To make it appear LARGER on your screen, set your “Display” settings in Windows Control Panel (aka ‘screen resolution’) to 800x600.

In the Scripture Memory Game....A reminder that you must click on the words to make them disappear before clicking on TRY ME to start the fill-in-the-blank part of the game (experiment with this ahead of time so you're not confused during class).

Printing Study Notes or Art Center Pictures...The ART CENTER pictures and any other page from the program cannot be printed out through the program itself. However, in Windows you can press the Print Screen button on the keyboard and this will save it to the Windows clipboard. Open up a wordprocessor program or Wordpad and select PASTE from the edit button, then...print out the page. For example...you might want to print the final study note in Daniel 12 which explains why he was able to be brave.

Outline of Adventures with Daniel CD

An Unfair Punishment (the main animated/interactive storybook section)

Animated Read-Aloud Story about Daniel and the Lion's Den and the events leading up to the "unfair punishment" given out by King Darius. This is a rather abbreviated telling of the story. Limit the amount of screen clicking in order to stay focused on the story. There are many discussion points to be made: Here are a few to expand upon...

1) What was the purpose of the law about prayer?
2) Why were the others jealous of Daniel?
3) What gave Daniel the strength to stand up to the king's decree?
4) What could the king have done differently?
5) Who's responsible here? Was it fair that the king threw the others into the den and not himself when he realized he had done wrong?
6) How is Daniel a role model to those around him? (How can you be one?)

Discover the Bible ....Daniel 1 - Daniel 12

Summaries of Life Application Notes
Daniel 1:1 Life Then, Life Now --About Babylon, where it is.
Daniel 1:4 Do the Right Thing --How to tackle a tough assignment. The example of Daniel and his friends.
Daniel 1:7 Sticky Situations -- How Daniel (like you) was under great pressure to do something wrong.
Daniel 1:11 Life Then, Life Now --Meals in Daniel's day. What they ate.

Daniel 2:35 I Wonder -- How could Daniel know the dream without being told? God was working through him.
Daniel 2:29 Life Then, Life Now -- About IDOLS and false gods.
Daniel 3:4 I Wonder --Why did people worship idols?
Daniel 3:14 Heroes and Villains --All about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego...true friendship defined.
Daniel 3:17 Memory Verse -- What should I do if an adult tells me to do something wrong? "...obey God rather
than men."

Daniel 3:21 Amazing Facts --How they survived the fiery furnace (God).
Daniel 3:26 I Wonder --Why didn't the 3 men just bow to the image/idol and tell God they didn't mean it?

Daniel 4:31 Heroes and Villains --Nebuchadnezzar, thought too much of himself.
Daniel 4:34 Amazing Facts -- Why Nebuchadnezzar once ate grass like a cow.
Daniel 5:2 I Wonder --Who hand made the writing on the wall?
Daniel 6:1 Life Then, Life Now -- Persian and Mede kings Daniel served.
Daniel 6:9 Heroes and Villains -- A story about a boy joining a club who is asked to do wrong. Illustrates the difference between real bravery and foolishness. Really a nice study note for discussion.
Daniel 6:16 Life Then, Life Now -- About lions back then.
Daniel 6:21 Amazing Facts -- Summary of God saving prophet Daniel from Lion's Den.
Daniel 6:28 I Wonder --Why did God send prophets to the people? What their messages were about.

Daniel 12:9 Charts -- This is a GREAT discussion starting note. Five Questions the Daniel derived his courage from: Who created me? Who makes me feel safe? Who do I trust? Who tells me what is true? Who is in charge?

(fyi...When you jump to Daniel 12 keep clicking the 'hand.' This Bible note icon is toward the end. You might want to print out this screen ahead of time and make this a handout. See instructions in technical notes above for 'how to.')

Comment: The story of the Fiery Furnace isn't covered with a lot of multimedia in this CD. It IS found in the Discover the Bible section as both a read aloud text with picture and a study note. Theologically speaking, the story of Daniel and the Lion's Den is essentially the same story.

Bible Time Theater

1) King Darius (the evil men ask Darius to make prayer to other gods punishable by death)
2) Daniel in the Lion's Den

Hall of Fame

The Life of Daniel Exhibit (series of illustrations with narration summarizing the highlights of Book of Daniel)

· Captivity of Judah in Babylon

· Daniel refuses to obey King

· Daniel interprets a dream

· King Nebuchadnezzar's statue

· King Neb.'s second dream

· Daniel reads the writing on the wall

· Daniel's success in prayer

· Daniel in the Lion's Den

· Daniel's Vision of the Future

People Daniel Knew Exhibit

· King Jehoacim (last in Judah)

· King Nebuchadnezzar

· Ashpenaz

· Shadrach, Meshach, Abenedgo

· King Belshazzar

· Darius the Mede

The Hall of Fame heroes are also mentioned in several other places in the program. You could create a "Wall of Fame" in your classroom and have students research the Hall of Fame characters starting at the Hall of Fame and then exploring the rest of the CD.

The Bible Game Show covers all the content on the CD. It could be played at the end of class or during a future class period as review. Don't be surprised if older children can figure out some of the answers to questions from parts of the story which they haven't studied.

The scripture memory game in the “Fun & Games” area has some good verses in it, including several from Daniel. A good question to ask is, "why do you think the people who made this CD thought this was a good scripture verse to include on a Daniel CD?"

Additional Lesson Ideas for the Daniel CD:

Make a list of today's 'role models.' List their strengths and weaknesses. What makes someone a role model? (Have a discussion about sports heroes and the idea of 'who are your heroes?' How are you a positive or negative role model on the subjects of: going to church, sharing your faith, doing what's right, not gossiping, being polite, being cheerful, etc. Show a videotape about Daniel. My favorites are the Daniel video from Nest (www.sundaysofttware.com/videos) and the Daniel video from Hanna-Barbera. Compare and contrast the story of Daniel in the Lion's Den with the Fiery Furnace.

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