Huges explores some of the areas of contact between human personality theory and the Christian understanding of the image of God. This paper was presented at the 2nd Institute of Christian Teaching.

"This volume provides an introduction to the climate and landscape to which successive generations of Hesbanites have had to adapt. Includes 26 figures, 42 plates, and 9 tables."

"Historical contextualization is vitally important in attaining a view of Tell Hesban as its contemporaries described it. A spectrum of periods are analyzed from their contemporary literary sources: pre-classical and classical sources (Werner K. Vyhmeister),...

"This is a single-volume account of the history and archaelogical finds of the Tell Hesban excavations. These excavations initiated one of the most concentrated, longest-running, continual research projects in the Middle East. The handy book is an easily...

At Tell el-Umeiri & Vicinity & Subsequent Studies:
1. 1984 Season: Twenty-three contributors present studies of food, water, geography, and hinterland sites providing the context for archaeological reports which consider stratigraphy, ceramics,...

Neo-Sumerian Account Texts 1: "This volume contains catalogs and published facsimile transcriptions of over 900 of the cuneiform tablets in the Hartford collection now housed at the Andrews University Horn Archeological Museum." (Cuneiform Series...

Old Babylonian Account Texts 1: This volume contains 101 Old Babylonian tablets, including 22 with seal impressions. Indexes provided. This well-designed publication presents user-friendly data for study and comparison. (Cuneiform Series Volume 4)

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Geraty discusses work experience education. In his discussion of the topic he looks at the philosophical background, historical tracement, contemporary examples, non-cultural features for application, and obstacles and solutions for the 21st Century. He ends...

Online lessons with bibliography, on following topics: ancient calendars, early clocks, revolution in time keeping, the atomic age, world time scales and NIST time calibration. These webpages were developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology...

Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Includes a search engine for educational web sites only, an information source on the web with news from USA Today, monthly site reviews and employment listings...

This NAD Life Science & Health Series textbook for Grades 7-8 (even year) includes chapters on methods of science, special creation, naturalistic evolution, fossils, age of the earth, plant classification, processes and structure, ecology, biomes, natural...

Annotated links to many great math-related websites. These range widely in scope and interest level - very interesting to browse.

Math Goodies is a free educational web site featuring interactive math lessons, homework help, worksheets, puzzles, and message boards for teachers and parents to communicate about mathematics-related topics. Designed for students in grades 5-8, the site's...

Teachnet.com is full of lesson ideas and other teaching tips. There are five categories of math lessons: geometry, maps and graphs, real-world, terminology, and general. The real-world math page contains 10 lesson ideas featuring the use of mathematics in...

TERC is committed to fostering vibrant learning communities where questioning, problem solving, and experimentation are commonplace, focusing on actual problems for which there are no simple solutions in the fields of mathematics and science. TERC develops...

View the world clock, find the time in major cities around the world, personalize a clock on your website, view calendars for a variety of periods, customize calendars to print out, or find out interesting details about leap years, the next millenium, and...

Consumable worksheets and other resources for purchase on the metric system.

Weekly Reader produces elementary, middle and high school magazines focusing on health, science, geography, reading, writing, and career education. Many K-12 learning activities and rich teaching resources related to each issue are available online for subscribers....

The Universal Currency Converter allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate conversion on the Internet. Updated once per minute, all major world currencies.

Rasi considers the global Adventist education system today, sharing positive trends such as an expanding focus, a visionary voice, steady growth, increased recognition, spiritual formation and service, and mission. He notes continuing challenges: declining...

Bonding between teacher, student, and parent creates a winning team that benefits not only the individuals concerned, but also the school itself. Bonding builds upon the basic foundation of connecting, interacting, and sharing. The six ideals of bonding, based...

The 2005-2010 Education Report from the East-Central Africa Division (ECD) presented at the Adventist General Conference Session 2010. The report outlines advances in educational opportunities, evangelism and baptisms, evaluation and accreditations, sponsorship...

Educational Creation Science tracts, magazines, books, CDs and videos on topics including origins, earth's history, creation, evolution, dinosaurs, Noah's flood, astronomy, biology, Christian apologetics, geology, history and meteorology. Curriculum and study...

The 2005-2010 Education Report from the West-Central Africa Division (WAD) presented at the Adventist General Conference Session 2010. Director Ikonne reports on integration of faith and learning, the universities in the division, and the K-12 schools in the...

The 2005-2010 Education Report from the Trans-European Division (TED) presented at the Adventist General Conference Session 2010. Director Duda reports on the difficulties faces in the division, the enrollment gains, achievements in higher education, in-service...

The 2005-2010 Education Report from the South American Division (SAD) presented at the Adventist General Conference Session 2010. Director Mesa features the Spiritual Master Plan, student and faculty cooperation agreements and exchanges, plans for integrating...

General Conference Education Director Garland Dulan reflects on the challenges facing Adventist education in 2010, and suggests 7 elements that make it stable and unique: its unifying mission, its whole-person development focus, its faith perspective, its...

Adventist Advance in Latin America talks about the influence of literature, the witness of laypersons, the work of self-supporting missionaries, strategies for growth and challenges for the future.

This article situates postmodernism in the context of Western cultural periods, sketches the main ideas advanced by its leading proponents, reviews the impact of postmodernism on certain aspects of contemporary culture, and assesses some of the challenges...

"History shows that culture greatly influences worship. While the community of faith in its worship is not to be of the world, the church, nevertheless, exists in the world and that worship takes place in a cultural setting. In that context, we may take...

Moncrieff talks about factual and fictional writing. He covers several key arguments and includes information about Ellen White's writing and the Bible in regards to fiction.

Responding to ongoing discussions in the church, the president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists urges Adventists to look to Scripture as the validity of their faith as it relates to origins.

Alexei Sergeev answers questions including: "What makes the Hermitage a special museum?" "When did you become interested in art?" "How did you get access to a Bible?" "That was your first contact with Seventh-day Adventists?"...

"Call an airlines office. Enter a supermarket. Stop at a bank. Walk by a teenager's room. You can't escape it. From the soothing to the shattering, from the rock to the rap, from the classical to the popular, music is everywhere. It's almost omnipresent....

"The attempt to emulate human intelligence raises the question of our humanity. Christianity and science have disagreed over this issue for many centuries... So how should a Christian respond? ... What Scripture does provide, however, is a stable basis...

"As a committed Seventh-day Adventist, Reynolds brings to bear upon her professional responsibilities the great qualities her faith has instilled in her: respect for the dignity of human personhood, love of people as a principle of life, and a particular...

The church benefits from eyes that are young, old, and different shaped and colored, to creatively respond to the near, the culturally specific, and the contemporary issues of our day. Like corrective lenses, vision is further sharpened by sound theology that...

Read this article to learn how to teach a holistic faith that encompasses affective, cognitive and life-style experiences in the Language Arts classroom. It also addresses the issue of how to provide situations and learning experiences to help students discover,...

"Call it black diamond. Call it basket of power. Or call it coal. It is one of the most useful natural resources found in the earth. It's composed of vegetable matter, modified by heat, pressure, catalytic activity, and decay. But how did the vegetable...

"This lesson is to reinforce color recognition taught in the kindergarten and first grade classroom. The students will work on their own to design a quilt square based on one color per student."

Donna Habenicht and Larry Burton share ideas on how teachers can teach children how to pray. Discussed is the relationship between prayer and worship, the nature of prayer, stages in the development of prayer, the nature of worship, helping children pray and...

This critical ethnography is a study of how the interfaces between Western educational structures and Native cultural structures function in the daily operations of a privately owned school in a Native community, how these functions have evolved, drawbacks...

Energetic and fun-loving, Cynthia Prime is a visionary with a reach for the new and the challenging. Over the years, she worked for a community newspaper, as a reporter, in public relations, and as an executive career-management consultant. Cynthia is directing...

A kindergarten language arts lesson developing phonemic awareness, practicing letter recognition, letter sounds and sight words, and more.

Neto discusses her journalism career, how she manages not working on the Sabbath, advice she has for Adventists thinking of a career in journalism, and other topics.

Drill games available online for math, language, science and social studies skills. Suitable for multiple grade levels with flexible settings for each game. Basic layout, free of slow graphics.

Francisco Badilla Briones is a Chilean painter whose art concretizes the gospel message in an aesthetically contemporary language.

"Araujo has always worked with music on a world stage. Music is his vehicle for evangelization. He established the Choral Arts Society of Japan and then toured the United States with this critically acclaimed group of young people. Alan Gershwin, son...

"Who is a Seventh-day Adventist? Simply put, one who keeps the seventh-day Sabbath and looks forward to the literal return of Jesus Christ in the near future. Of course, there are other fundamental beliefs a Seventh-day Adventist subscribes to, but these...

Ghanem Fargo answers some questions about his career - How did you get into business? What is your position in the business establishment now? Has the Gulf War and the embargo affected your business? In your experience, have you found it difficult to be a...

"Is it possible to pray continually?" "Three steps would put you on the road: understand prayer, make prayer a daily habit, and grow in prayer."

Patti Herring and Elizabeth Holzhauser report that a dramatic drop in immunization and vaccination rates have experts concerned. Many experts believe that preventable illnesses such as whooping cough (pertussis), measles, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, chicken...

It is reasonable to hold to a recent, six-day creation because of evidence from biblical-theological studies and scientific studies.

This editorial explores the character trait of integrity as transparent honesty and consistent truthfulness, being faithful advocates of the gospel in the way we teach, serve on a committee, administer, discipline and interact with colleagues and students.

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An interview with Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, associate director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty and liaison for the church at the United Nations. Dr. Gallagher discusses how he became an Adventist, his call to ministry, and his work...

Baget discusses how he became a painter and also how he paints. He talks about what gives him the greatest satisfaction in his work and how being a Christian has affected his life as an artist.

Boss, lead and laissez-faire management styles are compared in the context of educational leadership. Six leadership characteristics are discussed: loving, listening, leveling, learning, leading, and limiting. Research and experience on management is shared,...

"Because it is based on materialism, science implies (at least hypothetically) that everything should be accessible to experiment and empirical validation. Ideally, there shouldn’t be room for faith in a scientific universe, yet the very nature...

"What motivated Lacunza to write this book? His detractors pointed to the psychological frustrations of exile and the later suspension of his religious order. Others interpreted it as a conservative Christian reaction to the Enlightenment, especially...

"Peace is the essence of God's character, and He gives it to those who follow Him. Peace is about working with the Holy Spirit and being committed to applying God's Word to everyday situations. Those who want to work in conflict resolution must have a...

"Attorney Mario H. Ochoa is the executive vice president of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA), with headquarters at Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. His duties include program and project supervision, staff training coordination,...

Math games for young learners include: Add 'Em Up, Number Game, Pattern Mania, Pizza Party, Sammy's Shapes, Shape Sorter, Two Minute Warning, Take it Away, and What Time is it?

Mathematical Reasoning™ helps students devise strategies to solve a wide variety of math problems. Each book in the series (K-5) emphasizes problem-solving and computation to build the math reasoning skills necessary for success in higher-level math...

Professor Michael Abiola Omolewa, a Seventh-day Adventist from Nigeria, is his country’s current ambassador and permanent delegate to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Dr. Toledo tells his incredible story of how he became a missionary in Madagascar. When it comes to missions, you may ask the same question he often does - What does God expect of me in this world?

Shanmuganathan tells his personal story of how he turned to the Bible and became a Christian.

"William Borden knew he would be an heir to a large estate. And when wealth came his way, he also knew he would give thousands of dollars to missions. In 1904, at age 16, he graduated from high school and took a year off to travel around the world. It...

David’s experience confronts us with two questions: what kind of people do we attract? What happens to those people because of their association with us?

Pik-Yee Kan answers some questions about her medical career - What mission have you perceived for yourself in your chosen career? Did you encounter any problems at the university? Was your decision to remain loyal to the observance of the Sabbath a result...

This two-part article provides information to help educators maintain a healthier school environment. In this first part, Herring and Jones outline ways to minimize contamination and spread of disease at school. The symptoms of the common cold, influenza A,...

Apollos, who probably was a student of Philo, knew well Hellenistic philosophy as well as the Old Testament. He had gone through both academic and religious education. From the little we know of him in the book of Acts, he was a successful debater, establishing...

"Rachel Nyirabu is more than the spouse of Tanzania's ambassador to the United States. She is a world traveler, a successful career woman, a well-respected citizen of her country, a down-to-earth mom, a friendly hostess, and a humble Christian."

Guell discusses his career as a painter, how he started out and what influences his work.

Ready to use science games for young learners include: Butterflies, Color Word Activities, Dottie's Garden, Fall Fun, Henry's Egg Fun, Holiday Fun: Earth Day, I Spy, Sammy's Shapes, Summer Fun, Spring Fun, and Winter Fun

Matiko outlines ways to learn, practice, and promote a few basic principles for sharing printed material aloud that can improve the communication encounter between source (Scripture), channel (reader), and audience (our listeners). These include: 1) build...

The belief about being sensitive to the presence of God is not uncommon, although such discussions may not affirm a faith relationship to a personal Creator God who has an abiding interest in one’s life. But a Christian cannot speak of sensus divinitatis...

The authors remind readers of the Adventist philosophy of service education with examples from Andrews University, K-12 schools, and research findings on the value of intentionally building service learning and community outreach or service into the curriculum.

Delightful, ready-to use games to teach US holidays, presidents, states, and symbols to primary grade students.

Can you manage stress? Julian Melgosa answers the questions - how does stress work and are stressful situations always bad? Melgosa also covers the effect of stress, how to deal with stress, and the spiritual components.

Working with school boards in small schools can be a tremendously rewarding experience if one is willing to work with the community, listen carefully, gather support, and appreciate God's blessing. Topics include: School Board is Like a Family; Getting Things...