2020 Update: Neil has donated several of his Sunday Software programs to be downloaded free-of-charge by our supporting members. They include Joseph's Story, Cal and Marty's Scripture Memory Game, and also Sonsoft donated Fall of Jericho, as well, all listed below.  Learn more and get the software.

Software Choices for Teaching Joseph's Story

1. Joseph's Story

I wrote this game program to take students through the entire story of Joseph. It's called Joseph's Story and it's now free to the supporting members of Rotation.org

Premise: This game functions in your lesson AS your Bible Study. Students navigate a teenage archaeologist through the ruins of Joseph's "lost palace" and discover that Joseph has left his story behind for others to find.

See my lesson outline and details in this post below.

2. Cal and Marty's Scripture Memory Game CD

Gotta love the Reformer cut-ups in this CD: John "Cal" Calvin and Marty Luther and it's also now free to the supporting members of Rotation.org

Ann Wright's lesson BELOW in this forum is a good example of using Cal and Marty to follow up on your Joseph Bible Study with some fun interactive software, in her case the kids will input the lesson's memory verse.

When using "Cal and Marty" software I particularly like the idea of having the students SEARCH FOR KEY VERSES on their own from their Bibles, and then edit them into the Cal game (it has an easy to use verse editor), then playing the verse scramble/unscramble games with their verses.

I also really like the idea of kids INVENTING KEY VERSES of their own! ...a sentence that summarizes an idea in the story.

3. Quiz Software - "Fall of Jericho"

Joseph is a huge story with many characters and episodes. Quiz software such as, Fall of Jericho quiz making software gives you the option to TEST and REINFORCE your student's knowledge of previously taught content. It's also now free to the supporting members of Rotation.org

The other nice thing about creating 30 questions about Joseph in a quiz program, is that six months or a year later you can have your kids GO BACK to REFRESH their memories of your content, and that's an essential step to forming long term memory.

4. Kid Pix 4 or the newer "3D" version ..."PowerPoint for kids"

This creative illustrating program can be used to create illustrations of KEY SCENES in the Bible story. If you have multiple computers, you can assign key episodes/scenes to different workstations. Work with the kids to do a good illustration, don't just stand back. Add text to the scenes that summarize the point of the scene. Print then discuss.

This program is out of print but there's a Kid Pix 3D version out there, and many Sunday Schools that use computer software already have Kid Pix 4.

See Anne Wright's Joseph computer lesson using Kid Pix 4 in this post below.