Ten Must Know Bible Stories: The Good Samaritan – home learning resources
Helping others: The Good Samaritan
During this coronavirus outbreak it is great to hear so many stories of people going the extra mile to help their communities and even strangers. The phrase ‘Good Samaritan’ is being used to describe those undertaking acts of kindness.
Ten Must Know Bible Stories thought this provides a great link to the story of the first Good Samaritan that is found in the Bible. Exploring this story will help children understand where the phrase ‘Good Samaritan’ comes from, develop their understanding of Christian belief and consider how they can be Good Samaritans at this particular time.
Ten Must Know Bible Stories are delighted to provide you with a resource that will help children explore this story while learning at home. The resource has ideas for early, first and second level. They’re designed for you to pick from a selection of ideas and use them as they are or adapt them to fit your class or group. There are 4 sections: Hear the story, Check our understanding, Start thinking and Turn thinking into action.
The resource is here as a pdf: The Good Samaritan home learning pack but you can also find it on the 10 Must Know Bible Stories’ website: https://tenbiblestories.org/the-good-samaritan-ideas-for-learning-at-home/
Extra Good Samaritan resources.
Using the wonderful Bibleworld Book images the Scottish Bible Society have produced a free to use, video retelling of the story of the Good Samaritan. You can find that here:
Ten Must Know Bible Stories have also created two short assemblies based on the story of the Good Samaritan. One is aimed at P1-3 and the other at P4-7. You can find them on our youtube channel.
Assembly for P1-3. Helping others. The Good Samaritan.
This assembly links to the wonderful things people are doing during this Coronavirus outbreak to help each other. We hear the story of the Good Samaritan and have a quiz to help us understand it. It leaves with a challenge – how could you be a Good Samaritan? How can you help others at this time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvuFAOg35zQ
Assembly for P4-7. Helping others. The Good Samaritan.
This assembly will link to the wonderful things people are doing during this Coronavirus outbreak to help each other. We’ll hear the story of the Good Samaritan and learn where the phrase ‘The Good Samaritan’ originates from. Children will learn the Christian beliefs embedded in the story and consider what made the Good Samaritan’s helpfulness stand out? They’ll be left with the challenges of spotting a Good Samaritan and to be a Good Samaritan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1MNUMZL8RU
What’s next? Look out for learn at home resources based on the story of The Ten Commandments coming soon. As children are perhaps becoming frustrated with the rules of social distancing and staying at home this story will help them explore their views on rules. Are they good or bad? Why do we have rules? What rules would they make for their community to follow?