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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Creation and Our Creator

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students consider the creation. For this creation lesson, students observe nature and relate natural things to the creation. Students watch a Christian video about the creation.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Language Arts Written Drama Project: Creationism

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create and perform science fiction drams based upon their knowledge of the solar system. In this solar system lesson students work in cooperative groups to create a short play and will also score the play.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology In The Early Elementary Classroom

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the creation of the world and what was created on each specific day. They read the creation of the world from the Bible, watch a video, and sing a song about the Creator. Using Kid Pix software, 1st graders create...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Reverie

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders read the poem "1755", answer questions on vocabulary, and talk about creating things with the imagination.
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Handout
Talk Origins Archive

Exploring the Creation/evolution Controversy: Problems With a Global Flood

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides numerous arguements that refute the existence of Noah's Ark. Covers the building of the ark, gathering of the animals, the flood itself, and many more topics.
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Website
Other

Creationism & the Early Church

For Students 9th - 10th
This website attempts to expose truths concerning Early Church and other concepts. It also brings out points of interest concerning the modern-day Early Church interpretive values placed on typology and symbolism. Great emphasis is...
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Handout
Other

National Academies Press: Science, Evolution, and Creationism

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource allows learners to read the book online for free. A group of experts explain the fundamental methods of science, document the overwhelming evidence in support of biological evolution, and evaluate the alternative...
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Handout
Stanford University

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Creationism

For Students 9th - 10th
An entry from the Standard Encyclopedia of Philospohy that analyzes creationism from scientific, philosophical, and theological viewpoints and finds it lacking on all three measures.
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Lesson Plan
Stanford University

Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Scopes Trial

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In 1925, Tennessee lawmakers passed the Butler Act, explaining that teachers were not to discount Creationism in the classroom. Through documents and discussion provided with this lesson, explore how...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Darwin, Evolution, and Faith

For Students 9th - 10th
Can ancient scriptural accounts of the world's creation by God be reconciled with Darwin's new story? This article looks at three responses to this question: Conflict, Contrast, and Convergence.
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Activity
University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Tennessee vs. John Scopes, the "Monkey Trial"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Missouri-Kansas City provides excellent coverage of this famous trial includes trial transcripts, pictures, biographies, evolution controversy, and two short video clips of the actual trial.
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Handout
Talk Origins Archive

Talk Origins: Homo Floresiensis: The Hobbit

For Students 9th - 10th
Article discusses the find in 2003 of fossils that are thought to be a dwarf human species. Please note that there are creationist responses listed as well as rebuttals.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Monkey Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
A companion site to the PBS documentary on the John T. Scopes trial, recounting the battle between creationism and evolution.
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eBook
Other

The Days of Genesis 1

For Students 9th - 10th
You must scroll down to the section titled "The Early Church and the Day-Age Theory" to begin specific reading on St. Augustine's interpretation of Genesis 1; however, the information leading up to it is valuable as well. Provides...
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Website
Other

Carbon 14 Dating

For Students 9th - 10th
Seven pages all about Carbon 14 Dating. Information on half-life, Carbon 14 used to date specimens and artifacts, limitations, charts and graphs. Michael E. Brown Ph.D. contests that the limitations of Carbon 14 dating support the theory...
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: Charles Darwin & the Theory of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Outlines the events of Charles Darwin's own evolution into a scientist and how he developed his Theory of Evolution. Also discusses the immense resistance to his ideas that he faced from all fronts. Even today, many people refuse to...
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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Darwin's Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures dedicated to study Charles Darwin's legacy. The course was hosted at Stanford University. The lectures cover a broad range of topics from evolution vs. creationism, Darwin's life and work, social Darwinism,...
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 824: Scopes Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of a radio broadcast, we learn about the Scopes Trial of 1925, which pitted creationists against evolutionists.
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Article
Other

Evolution and Creation

For Students 9th - 10th
A short discussion covering the controversy between those who believe in evolution and the "creationists." The author suggests that it is possible to be a Christian and still believe in evolution.
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Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Arguments Against Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a table showing the timeline of theories of evolution, a description of Darwin's theory of evolution, and a list of arguments attacking the concept of evolution.