Welcome to Rotation.org's Lesson Exchange!
In addition to our public lesson forums, supporting members have access to sets of extra creative lessons from our Writing Team. Here's their latest release:
Seven Creative, Faithful, and Fun Lessons for our Supporting Members.
Everyone can read the Lesson Summaries.
In addition to Rotation.org's plentiful Lesson Forums, we are also home to a growing collection of free leader and teacher resources.
These are especially timely!
Teacher Recruiting Tips & Ideas
Ten Reasons Why You Should Teach Sunday School -- a Teacher Recruiting PDF you can email
18 Ways to Use Your Cellphone in Your Teaching
Your Next Teacher Training Event -- get your teachers talking, training, and excited
Encourage Your Teachers -- slip this PDF in the mail to your recruits, discuss it at your next meeting
Classroom Makeover Ideas and Photos
Traditional Sunday School classrooms are invited to borrow from the creative classroom decorations, set-ups, and furnishings that Rotation Model workshops are famous for.
The Teachers "Lesson Help Lounge" is now in our new "Paste in My Hair" Teacher Forum. Post your lesson questions or add your reply.
Register for a free membership or become a Supporting Member! Supporting Members get access to our Writing Team's collection of extra creative and detailed lesson plans, plus additional features and content.
Special Supporting Member Resources
Our supporting members make this site and all its resources possible. Join today.
View and Print from our collection of Bible Video Outlines
These include all 13 videos in the What's in the Bible? series.Writing Team Lesson Sets!
Over 350 extra-creative, extra-detailed lessons on major Bible stories featuring a wide variety of teaching methods: cooking, art, drama, video, software, music, games, and more!
About the Rotation Model and Organization of Lessons at Our Site
Learn more about the Model
(2) We need to teach stories for more than one week. Having a new Bible story every week creates biblically illiterate kids and burns-out teachers who want to be creative.
By rotating kids and not teachers through "workshops," kids get variety and depth in a single story, while teachers get to prepare once and improve every week.
Learn more about how traditional Sunday School classes can take advantage of Rotation practices and ideas.
Here's a typical four week rotation schedule for 3 different grade groups.
| ROTATION STORY: Prodigal Son |
VIDEO Teacher: Jane |
ART Teacher: Amy |
DRAMA Teacher: Bill |
BIBLE GAMES Teacher: Jo |
| Week 1 | Grades K-1 | Grades 2-4 | Grades 5-6 | Open |
| Week 2 | Open | Grades K-1 | Grades 2-4 | Grades 5-6 |
| Week 3 | Grades 5-6 | Open | Grades K-1 | Grades 2-4 |
| Week 4 | Grades 2-4 | Grades 5-6 | Open | Grades K-1 |
Rotation schedules are super-flexible and scalable to any church size. Add a fifth week and workshop to create a
