Science In the Bible

This is our 10th year homeschooling our children. When we started our children were ages 9, 7, 2 and a 6 month old! WOW! Now, they are 19, 17, 12 and 10! It occurred to me that subjects that were covered with my older children now need to be covered with my younger ones, since they were so small and can't remember. Hmmmmm, second time around for me which is great :) I am not lost or unsure like the first time- experience really is the best teacher. Anyway, my daughter commutes to college in the day time and my oldest son is a Junior this year- he was excited to see us doing things we had done when he was his brothers age so decided to join in with us.
We were using Apologia Science, but it is REALLY detailed so I went back to my homeschool roots of the Weaver and decided to teach science to coincide with what our Bible lesson is about. I felt led this year to put together my own Bible and Church History lessons- the kids love it and ask for MORE!

I began implementing the "new" Bible lesson plan last week on Rosh Hoshanna and the Feast of Trumpets. It wasn't too hard because I recently taught about the Seven Feasts of the Lord in my mom and I former Adult New Members Sunday School Class. Here's a photo of my middle son blowing one of our shofars my mother bought for us from one of her trips to Israel and yes, he can actually blow it pretty well:

The rest of the week, we talked about Creation and the length of Creative Days. The boys decided to make a Garden of Eden out of clay. I wanted to make sure they understood that there were two main trees in the garden- the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and The Tree of Life:

 A arrowhead that I found a few years ago- if you look closely, you can see fossils.

 We also talked about the three basic rocks of the earth- sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous. I got this from a place in Texas and they sent us various samples some years back.