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.

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

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Awesome Bible Stories CD Outline and Guide pdf file (250kb). You will need Acrobat Reader to view/print it. Or you can print/view the webpage version here.

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

Exodus Adventures CD Complete Guide & Outline to Exodus Adventures CD   


View and Print 2 Student Guide Handouts

Mission 1 | Mission 2  (pdfs)

Jesus in Space! Teaching Guide to JiS CD |  3 Student Mission Handouts pdf 

Timothy and Titus CD Game Tips (and cheats)
Elijah & Jonah CD Elijah-Jonah Outline and Guide  (pdf) 
See a lesson plan for Elijah & the Widow of Zarephath that uses our Elijah-Jonah CD.
The Old & New Testament
Story-to-Software Reference
Old and New Testament Story-to-Software Reference.
Look up your story and see what software we recommend.
Bongo Loves the Bible CD Outline and Game Guide Revised Winter 2005 for version 1.2 of Bongo. New helps and additional maps. Printable Bongo game tips wall display/handout.
Fluffy & God's Amazing
Christmas Adventure CD
Outline and Guide with extra study ideas. Revised 2007.

Three new Printable Student Handouts:
Magi section,  Shepherd's Night,  and Promises, Promises. (3 different handouts)

Joseph's Story CD Outline and Game Guide  Game Play Tips for version 1.3. Also available, a printable game tips and handout. And... a large printable Game Map with helps.
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
Cal & Marty's Scripture
Memory Game CD
Teaching tips, lesson ideas, and extra verse sets.
Abraham and Sarah 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. 
Ten Commandments CD-ROM Complete Outline, Study Guide, Navigation tips and Lesson Suggestions. If you just want an overview go to the Ten C's program description. Recently updated --the Outline and Lesson Tips/Suggestions are available as nicely formatted PDF documents.
Prodigal Son CD Outline & Lesson Tips. Now available as a nicely formatted PDF document.
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.
Let's Talk CD Let's Talk lesson suggestions, ways to use the modules, strategies. Regularly updated.
Life of Christ CD The Life of Christ CD Outline & Lesson Suggestions. Handout displaying all 40 lessons. (pdf)
Interactive Kids Bible Series
Life of Moses
Life of David
Life & Ministry of Jesus
Life of Paul
Noah & the Ark
Adventures with
Daniel
Birth of Jesus, Ruth/Samson/Jonah
Print the General Teaching Tips to the entire series.
Also print the individual outlines to each CD

Full Outlines & Study Notes for all 8 of the Kids Interactive Bible Series CDs: View and print individual outlines and our complete General Teaching Tips & Lesson Plan Ideas for the whole 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.
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.
The Fall of Jericho Jericho Game and Teaching...We've also put them in the help file on the CD, as well as, here at this site. Revised in 2004.
Kid Pix CD

 

View and/or print our PDF formatted Kid Pix Teaching Tips. (210kb, make take 30-60 seconds to download on a slow connection). These include our project list and "hot tips" for getting the most out of this popular program. 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.
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.
A Walk in the Footsteps of Jesus  FULL Footsteps 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.)
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.
HolyLand 3D CD Flying Guide Flying Guide and Tips to this amazing new program. (368kb PDF document)
Pathways Through Jerusalem Pathways Teacher & Tourist's Guide (the only one we've ever charged for)  Learn more about this extensive resource.

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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 New BookTeaching with Computers in Christian Education, by Neil MacQueen
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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.

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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!

Life Application Multimedia Bible audio file list -List of the over-100 dramatic Bible story audio readings found in this CD.

Star Chaser's Teaching Tips ...plus....Five Complete Lesson Plans for Star Chasers -an addendum to our four page Teaching Tips for the program.

A Disciple's Diary Outline & Study Guide --View the Brief -or- Complete OUTLINE of the 10 Steps/Lessons. The brief outline is about 4 pages.

Captain Bible, The updated Tips including two lesson plans for using verses learned in game.
Bible Builders Bible Trivia Game Teaching Tips

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