Sunday Software's Free Teaching Tips
Outlines,
Study Guides & Handouts for Recommended Software
Regularly Updated!

Here is our ever-expanding treasure trove of free classroom-tested teaching materials for our software. Print them, read them, heed them. They will improve your teaching and knowledge of the software in many ways. I continue to update each guide, so if you haven't printed a new version in a while, check them out! <>< Neil

Need to chat about a program, lesson or resource? If the little guy here:  is green, it means I'm online and available for LIVE CHAT. If he's grey, you can still send me a message via chat. You can also email me direct at Neil@sundaysoftware.com.

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SOFTWARE TITLE & LINK LINKS TO THE Guides, Outlines, Teaching Tips and other free lesson materials
Faith Through the Roof CD Print the new Teacher's Guide for this great new program. Guide updated spring 2011 with a 3 lesson outline that includes software, game activities, and video. Print the Player's Guide for your students.

Print/view the answer panels from the fishin' with Jesus and Peter quiz.

View details about the program!

Abraham and Sarah CD  Abraham CD Outline and Lesson Tips, graphics and technical notes for this new CD. The Tips page also has links to a brief outline with additional questions, and a link to the Abraham Lyrics page with additional lesson comments/questions. 

Student Handout for Abraham and Sarah CD

View the Abe CD webpage

Name Badger CD Instructions for using this new nametag, registration, and attendance program.
Bongo Loves the Bible CD Outline and Game Guide. New helps and additional maps. Printable Bongo game tips wall display/handout.   printable copies of the background content found in the Bongo Bible Background game.  View the program's webpage
Joseph's Story 2 Get the Teacher's Guide to Joe 2  
Get the Student Handout

View the program's webpage
Link to older Joe v1.3 guide
Attack of the Sunday School Zombies CD Zombies Guide and Worksheet  (a 3mb pdf)  
View the program's webpage
Awesome Bible Stories CD Awesome CD Outline and Guide pdf file (250kb). View the program's webpage

Also...   Esther student worksheet. Creation worksheetParable of Talents worksheet   Adam & Eve worksheet

Exodus Adventures CD

Complete Guide & Outline to Exodus Adventures CD 

Teacher's Cheat Sheet (simplified version of Guide for classroom use). View the program's webpage

View and Print 2 Student Guide Handouts
Mission 1 | Mission 2  (pdfs)

View and Print my Exodus Lesson Sketches and Schedules for teaching a full unit on the Exodus story and incorporating the use of this CD. Includes game and video suggestions, as well as, how to make your classroom look like an Egyptian Village!

Jesus in Space! Teaching Guide to JiS CD |  3 Student Mission Handouts (pdfs)  View the program's webpage

 

Elijah & Jonah CD Elijah-Jonah Outline and Guide 
See a lesson plan for Elijah & the Widow of Zarephath that uses our Elijah-Jonah CD.
View the program's webpage
Kid Pix CD

 

View the recently updated Kid Pix 4 Teaching Tips (also applies to version 3). View/print our Additional Tips on Importing and Trimming Graphics. The right file sizes to create your own backgrounds and how to use graphics from other CDs and trim them in Kid Pix. MORE Kid Pix Technical Help.

View the Kid Pix webpage

Check out our Old & New Testament Story -to- Software Cross Reference
Use it to look up your story and see what software we recommend for it.

Fluffy & God's Amazing
Christmas Adventure CD
Outline and Guide with extra study ideas.
Plus, here are three new Printable Student Handouts:
Magi section,  Shepherd's Night,  and Promises, Promises. (3 different handouts)
View the program's webpage
Galilee Flyer CD Outline, Study Notes, Sample Lesson Plan and Game Play Tips.  Additional Resource: Print the Verses, Questions & Pop Up content for each of the four games.  Print game tips wall display/handout for students. View the program's webpage
Cal & Marty's Scripture
Memory Game CD
Teaching tips, lesson ideas, and extra verse sets.   
View the program's webpage

Ten Commandments CD-ROM

Ten C's Complete Outline, Study Guide, Navigation tips and Lesson Suggestions.  Recently updated --the Outline and Lesson Tips/Suggestions are available as nicely formatted PDF documents. (If you just want an overview -then go to the Ten C's program description.)

Prodigal Son CD Prodigal Son CD Outline & Lesson Tips (pdf).   View the program's webpage
Good Sam the Samaritan CD Outline & Lesson Tips --All the texts, study notes, questions, comments, quiz answers, other content plus a few teaching insights for those about to teach with this CD.  View the program's webpage
Let's Talk CD Let's Talk lesson suggestions, ways to use the modules, strategies. 
View the program's webpage
Life of Christ CD The Life of Christ CD Outline & Lesson Suggestions. Handout displaying all 40 lessons. (pdf)  View the program's webpage
Interactive Kids Bible Series
Life of David
Life of Paul
Noah & the Ark
Adventures with Daniel


Life of Moses (out of print)
Birth of Jesus (out of print)
Ruth/Samson/Jonah (out of print)
Life & Ministry of Jesus (out of print)
Print the recently updated Outlines for each CD in the series.
Print the general teaching tips for the entire series.

Two Lesson Plans for Adventures with Daniel and Life of Paul (both from the Interactive Kids Bible Series). Part of Neil MacQueen's free complete Summer Sunday School webpage: Camp Bible Wahoo!  Revised in 2004.

View the program's webpage

Play & Learn Children's Bible CD Teaching Tips and List of All 50 Stories found in Play & Learn. Also available, a Printable Handout with all the stories listed on it suitable for posting on the lab bulletin board.  View the program's webpage
LINK TO THE PROGRAM LINKS TO THE GUIDES and MATERIALS
The Fall of Jericho Jericho Game and Teaching Tips...We've also put them in the help file on the CD, as well as, here at this site. View the program's webpage
Timothy and Titus CD Game Tips (and cheats)    
View the program's webpage
Actual Reality CD

 

Two resources: our detailed Outline and Study Guide, and a collection of COMPLETE LESSON PLANS specifically designed for use with teens and this CD. Available in PDF format and they're free. See the link IN the study guide to these PDFs.
Bible Grand Slam 3.0 Tips for using this program are found on the description page, -or linked there.
Bible CrossWords & Word Search Some tech notes and helpful graphics for this program can be found here.
Joseph's Story CD  version 1.3
 
Outline and Game Guide for the OLDER Joe version 1.3. Also available, a printable game tips and handout. And... a large printable Game Map with helps for version 1.3.  
Pathways Through Jerusalem CDs Pathways Teacher & Tourist's Guide (the only one we've ever charged for)  Learn more about this extensive resource.
What's in the Bible? DVD guides The links to our exclusive outline and lesson tips to the What's in the Bible? DVD series are emailed to our customers. Email neil@sundaysoftware.com if you've purchased the DVDs from us and need the guides.
 

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Seasonal Software Recommendations:
Advent Software Lesson Ideas

Lent and Easter Software Lesson Ideas

Pentecost & Paul Software Lesson Ideas
 

Our Advent, Easter and Pentecost/Paul pages are updated each year with software lesson ideas. Each page contains references to numerous programs you can use for these annual subjects.

 

 

Important Software References:
The Old and New Testament Story -> Software Cross-Reference
A listing of all the OLD and NEW TESTAMENT stories found in the software we carry. This is a very helpful page for finding the software to do your lessons with. Updated regularly

Are you using Cokesbury's PowerXpress or the PCUSA "We Believe" -or Cornerstones Rotation curriculums? Click the links to view my specific software suggestions for their lessons.

Lesson Planning Guide --a simple printable outline to use for computer lab lesson planning. Verses, Questions to ask, Life Application, Open, Dig, Reflect, Closing Prayer ...you get the picture.

Get the Book Teaching with Computers in Christian Education, by Neil MacQueen. Learn more

Print our Teacher's Training Pamphlet

Guide to Cooperative Learning With Computers --four interesting cooperative lesson plan strategies suitable for certain programs and lab situations.

Writing Good Lesson Plans -Five actual lesson plans (three from other churches, 2 that Neil used in his church) with "plus and minus" comments from Neil.

Photos of CE Computer Labs  (continually updated)

The Ten Commandments of Sunday School Computing. We've seen versions of this hanging in several computer labs.

GO TO OUR ARTICLES Menu (Getting Started, Picking Software, Saving Money on Software, and much much more)

 

Teaching Documents for Out of Print Titles:

The following Tips are still maintained here, though the programs are no longer in print, or in our catalog...

Bibleland.com --Outline and Lesson Tips, A to Z listing of Bible character Homepages  ...Also...here's a free worksheet using Bibleland.com to teach Psalm 23. Other software suggestions for Psalm 23 are also noted on this worksheet. Bibleland.com --the complete set of Teaching Tips in PDF format. Please note: Bibleland.com CD is out of print!

Footsteps of Jesus CD Outline (over 150k due to size of the guide and section graphics. If you just want to see what's in the program and don't own it, I suggest you look at the brief outline due to file download size.)

Please note that all our TIPS are copyrighted material. They are only for teaching and non-profit use.

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