The Making of our Scope & Sequence Part 1

While I know that most readers of this blog are familiar with the term "Scope and Sequence," I thought I'd explain it real quick for those who may not have heard it before. The scope and sequence is the overview of what all will be covered in a curriculum and in what order.

In making our scope and sequence for Bridge 45, we first went to our Children's Ministries mission statement: Equipping children and families to love the Lord for a lifetime with their head, heart and hands. Our core objective is to give our kids the skills they need to study the Bible. In order to accomplish this in a well-rounded way we needed to cover the three areas of our mission statement (head, heart, hands) in the implementation of the curriculum. So we came up with what we'd like our kids to know/achieve by the time they graduate out of our program. Here's what we came up with:

Head- What they should know or be able to do by the end of the year
-Navigate the Bible
-Give 2-3 sentence overviews of the Old and New Testaments and how they relate to each other
-Know key people and events of both the Old and New Testaments, as well as be able to define words such as apostle, prophet, disciple, etc.
-Define and explain salvation, sin, repentance, grace, fellowship, etc.

Heart- We'll see their head knowledge influence their heart
-Growing in their love for God and others
-Their prayer life
-Their desire to study the Bible

Hands- How their knowledge and understanding plays out
-Service opportunities
-Giving because of the biblical basis
-Verse memorization