Tower of Babel | Genesis 11 Bible Lesson Foreshadowing Jesus as The WAY
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Engage your kinesthetic learners with this interactive 3+ hour Bible study lesson on the Tower of Babel! Written for older students in grades 4-8, this lesson uses hands-on activities, cooperative projects, and creative exploration to help students understand a key biblical truth: While the people of Babel made a vain attempt to reach UP to God, Jesus came DOWN to us—because He is the ONLY Way to the Father. ❤️
Lesson Highlights:
❇️Key Word Vocabulary: Students will learn the various meanings of the term "babbling".
❇️Color-Coding Genesis 11:1-9 – This color-coding activity helps students identify and underline repeated words and key phrases such as “Come, let us”.
❇️Building Problems Activity – Students experience communication barriers firsthand with one of two cooperative, no-talking challenges:
✔️Build a Chicken
✔️Build a Tower
By participating in cooperative projects without being able to speak, students experience the challenge of a communication barrier to understand how multiple languages would have slowed the progress of the Tower of Babel. [Suggestions for modifying these projects are included in the lesson.]
✝️ What Have I Learned about Jesus Today?
At the end of this lesson (and every lesson in this series), we invite students to ponder the thought-provoking question: "What have you learned about JESUS today?" In this lesson, students learn that while we often vainly attempt to get UP to God through human effort, it is only because Jesus came DOWN to us that we can make our way to the Father. Jesus is THE WAY and the only way to God.
What’s Included?
✅ 11-page step-by-step lesson plan with clear DO/SAY/READ instructions
✅ Color-Coding the Tower of Babel Worksheet + Answer Key
✅ Cooperative Project Instructions for both "Build a Chicken" & "Build a Tower" activities
✅ "The Way" Ziggurat Coloring Worksheet to reinforce the theme of Jesus as the only way to God the Father. ☝️
✅ "Color Your Own Ziggurat" activity
✅ "The Way" Stepping Stone
⏰️Flexible Scheduling: This 3-hour lesson can be taught in one session or spread over multiple days with clearly labeled starting and stopping points.
✝️ Perfect for Sunday school, homeschool Bible study, or Christian classrooms!
Total Pages = 23 pages
Answer Key Included
Teaching Duration = 3 hours
Save time and shop with confidence. Watch the lesson preview video here!
Engage your kinesthetic learners with this interactive 3+ hour Bible study lesson on the Tower of Babel! Written for older students in grades 4-8, this lesson uses hands-on activities, cooperative projects, and creative exploration to help students understand a key biblical truth: While the people of Babel made a vain attempt to reach UP to God, Jesus came DOWN to us—because He is the ONLY Way to the Father. ❤️
Lesson Highlights:
❇️Key Word Vocabulary: Students will learn the various meanings of the term "babbling".
❇️Color-Coding Genesis 11:1-9 – This color-coding activity helps students identify and underline repeated words and key phrases such as “Come, let us”.
❇️Building Problems Activity – Students experience communication barriers firsthand with one of two cooperative, no-talking challenges:
✔️Build a Chicken
✔️Build a Tower
By participating in cooperative projects without being able to speak, students experience the challenge of a communication barrier to understand how multiple languages would have slowed the progress of the Tower of Babel. [Suggestions for modifying these projects are included in the lesson.]
✝️ What Have I Learned about Jesus Today?
At the end of this lesson (and every lesson in this series), we invite students to ponder the thought-provoking question: "What have you learned about JESUS today?" In this lesson, students learn that while we often vainly attempt to get UP to God through human effort, it is only because Jesus came DOWN to us that we can make our way to the Father. Jesus is THE WAY and the only way to God.
What’s Included?
✅ 11-page step-by-step lesson plan with clear DO/SAY/READ instructions
✅ Color-Coding the Tower of Babel Worksheet + Answer Key
✅ Cooperative Project Instructions for both "Build a Chicken" & "Build a Tower" activities
✅ "The Way" Ziggurat Coloring Worksheet to reinforce the theme of Jesus as the only way to God the Father. ☝️
✅ "Color Your Own Ziggurat" activity
✅ "The Way" Stepping Stone
⏰️Flexible Scheduling: This 3-hour lesson can be taught in one session or spread over multiple days with clearly labeled starting and stopping points.
✝️ Perfect for Sunday school, homeschool Bible study, or Christian classrooms!
Total Pages = 23 pages
Answer Key Included
Teaching Duration = 3 hours
Save time and shop with confidence. Watch the lesson preview video here!
Engage your kinesthetic learners with this interactive 3+ hour Bible study lesson on the Tower of Babel! Written for older students in grades 4-8, this lesson uses hands-on activities, cooperative projects, and creative exploration to help students understand a key biblical truth: While the people of Babel made a vain attempt to reach UP to God, Jesus came DOWN to us—because He is the ONLY Way to the Father. ❤️
Lesson Highlights:
❇️Key Word Vocabulary: Students will learn the various meanings of the term "babbling".
❇️Color-Coding Genesis 11:1-9 – This color-coding activity helps students identify and underline repeated words and key phrases such as “Come, let us”.
❇️Building Problems Activity – Students experience communication barriers firsthand with one of two cooperative, no-talking challenges:
✔️Build a Chicken
✔️Build a Tower
By participating in cooperative projects without being able to speak, students experience the challenge of a communication barrier to understand how multiple languages would have slowed the progress of the Tower of Babel. [Suggestions for modifying these projects are included in the lesson.]
✝️ What Have I Learned about Jesus Today?
At the end of this lesson (and every lesson in this series), we invite students to ponder the thought-provoking question: "What have you learned about JESUS today?" In this lesson, students learn that while we often vainly attempt to get UP to God through human effort, it is only because Jesus came DOWN to us that we can make our way to the Father. Jesus is THE WAY and the only way to God.
What’s Included?
✅ 11-page step-by-step lesson plan with clear DO/SAY/READ instructions
✅ Color-Coding the Tower of Babel Worksheet + Answer Key
✅ Cooperative Project Instructions for both "Build a Chicken" & "Build a Tower" activities
✅ "The Way" Ziggurat Coloring Worksheet to reinforce the theme of Jesus as the only way to God the Father. ☝️
✅ "Color Your Own Ziggurat" activity
✅ "The Way" Stepping Stone
⏰️Flexible Scheduling: This 3-hour lesson can be taught in one session or spread over multiple days with clearly labeled starting and stopping points.
✝️ Perfect for Sunday school, homeschool Bible study, or Christian classrooms!
Total Pages = 23 pages
Answer Key Included
Teaching Duration = 3 hours
❓️FAQS❓️
What Christian perspective is used for these Bible lessons?
I am an evangelical Christian who writes Bible curriculum for older students, and I take this tremendous responsibility seriously. Each lesson has a clear focus on what God says in His Word and the lessons are presented age appropriately, thoughtfully and biblically.
What translation of the Bible is used? 99% of the time I use the ESV although on rare occasion I might use another translation such as the NIV.
How can this Bible lesson be used?
Each lesson unit in our Walking Alongside Jesus series is divided into five sections, each section takes between 30 minutes to an hour. This allows homeschool and Christian school teachers to use it daily in the classroom (thereby completing an entire unit in a week) OR in a Sunday School classroom or youth group once a week (thereby completing an entire unit in a month). These lessons are flexible enough to be used in the following settings:
Children's Sunday School class
Youth Group
Private Christian school Bible class
Chapel for Christian schools
Children's Church
Homeschool Bible class
Family Bible time
