How To Use SEED
For the Summer of 2023
Nine-Session Summer Series: "Family of Faith"
For use by congregations (or families) throughout the summer months of 2022, Sola has provided an abbreviated nine-session intergenerational series for use with children of all ages. Click the blue link above.
New for 2023-2024:
Weekly Story Poster Pages
Beginning in 2023, Sola will be making available PDF "Poster Pages" -- downloadable from the Weekly Lesson webpages. Each file features four sequential pictures meant to be shown as the Bible story for the day is read. Formatting to a horizontal 8.5 x 11" size (but able to be enlarged), congregations with color printing capability may choose to print hard copies of these posters for the classroom. More economically, most teachers will want to simply display these pictures one-by-one on a laptop or computer screen.
Program Guide
In this section you will find information for teachers and coordinators on how to organize an education program, including class schedules, outlines, and programmatic resources, provided to help teachers and other education leaders in their calling to communicate the Word of God.
Lesson Overview
Full Four-Year SEED Lesson Schedule (pdf)
This pdf shows the full four-year schedule of the Seed Curriculum. The current education year for 2019-2020 is the SEED Orange Year (D).
List of All Scripture Lessons in SEED (pdf)
This pdf lists all the Scripture lessons included in the four year cycle of SEED (both primary and secondary readings).
Young Elementary Craft Summaries for Year D
For those who would like a summary of upcoming craft activities, the links below provide a list of all Young Elementary crafts for each of this year's units. (This is new, more will be added!)
Unit D1 - Lower Elementary Craft Summary
Unit D2 - Lower Elementary Craft Summary
Unit D3 - Lower Elementary Craft Summary
Using SEED as a Lectionary
Using the Suggested Sunday Calendar (above), some congregations have chosen to use the lessons from SEED as the schedule of readings for their Sunday worship services, taking a break from the traditional lectionary for part of the year.
To help facilitate the use of the SEED lessons in worship, Sola has provided weekly Scripture Inserts that feature the Bible texts from each's week's Sunday School Lesson, along with a prayer for the day. (These are found on the individual weekly pages.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Click here to learn how to download the SEED videos to your computer so you don't have to stream them.
Resources from this page may be downloaded and photocopied for local use only by congregations that are active subscribers to SEED.
Teacher Resources
CHECK OUT THIS WEBSITE:
The Carpenter's Ministry Toolbox
www.carpentersministrytoolbox.com
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This free website contains a toolbox full of educational strategies, tools, thoughts, and ideas for ministry. Author Laura Langhoff Arndt is trained and certified as a Lutheran teacher who works with Sola Publishing in producing educational materials. On this blogsite she provides helpful hints for teachers and parents, as she gives advice on how to approach Christian education in both the Church and at home. She also provides suggestions a number of downloadable activities. You are welcome to take, use, and/or adapt these ideas and let the Holy Spirit work through them!
Some Teacher Training Sheets
The Task of Teaching
Discipline and Conduct
Memory Work
Classroom Posters
(full color 11x17" pdf)
Attendance Poster - Red
Attendance Poster - Blue
Attendance Poster - Purple
For additional educational resources for purchase from Sola's main website click here