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This blog is for elementary  age students.  The posted devotions, news articles, videos and other materials are gleaned from websites by my student advisers.  They believe this material would be of interest to other students of their same ages.​

Student Advisers (grade): 
N. Shackleford   (6 Technician),
J. Crawford (6)   "Tech and Science"
E. Unthank (5)   "DOGO News" 
J. Wood (4)   "TKSST"

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Dogo News:  Massive Jurassic Park-Sized Alligator Strolls Through Florida Golf Course

11/24/2020

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The residents of Florida, which is home to over one million alligators, are no strangers to the apex predators. The massive animals are frequently encountered in swimming pools, ditches, and garages. In 2019, Palm Coast resident Donna Heiss even saw a 7-foot gator peeking through her window! However, the giant reptile recently spotted in Naples, Florida, impressed even the most jaded Floridians.
The approximately 10-foot-long alligator was seen lumbering toward a pond by the 17th hole at the Valencia Golf and Country Club on November 13, 2020. Tyler Stolting, a golf professional at the club who filmed the now-viral video, told The Post, “I was a little shocked, obviously. It was pretty big, biggest one I’ve ever seen!" However, alligators are a common sight at the golf course, and neither he, nor his colleague, Jeff Jones, are concerned about the predator's appearance. When asked if it posed any danger to golfers, Jones quipped, "As long as nobody is feeding him, they will be fine."
As if being home to alligators is not enough, Florida is the only place in the world to also harbor crocodiles. Though the two reptile species often get mixed up, they are very different and do not even belong to the same biological family. Alligators, which sport a dark blackish-gray color, dwell in freshwater habitats and have shorter, more rounded snouts. Thanks to a larger upper jaw, their teeth disappear when their mouths are closed.
Crocodiles, meanwhile, are equipped with special glands in their tongues that can excrete excess salt from their bodies, allowing them to live at sea for weeks. The olive-colored reptiles also have longer, sharper snouts and show their teeth even when their large jaws are shut. Adult crocodiles can grow up to 19 feet long — a full 5 feet more than alligators, which peak at about 14 feet.
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A Love That is More than Human

11/24/2020

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NINA HAD BEEN Felicia’s best friend for most of their lives. Nina was really nice. When Felicia became a Christian and announced to her best friend that she needed Jesus, Nina answered that she was just as good as Felicia.
Nina’s challenge isn’t a surprise. Even Christians wonder what the Golden Rule looks like in real life. Here are three big questions that pop up:
1. Can non-Christians really obey the Golden Rule when they don’t know God?
Yes. You don’t have to be a Christian to live out biblical truth. In fact, sometimes un­believers follow the Golden Rule more feverishly than some Christians! Unbelievers can live out the Golden Rule without knowing that God is its source simply because treating others like you want to be treated makes sense. Here’s the catch: As kind and loving as an unbeliever can be, salvation comes through faith in Christ alone, not through following the Golden Rule. Loving others isn’t enough. People need a friendship with God, the source of love.
2. What does the Holy Spirit have to do with treating others like I want to be treated? You can’t deny that lots of people-unbelievers included-manage to follow the Golden Rule on brute willpower. But to live this “love ethic” day-in and day-out takes supernatural power from inside-the Holy Spirit’s power.
You see the difference when loving gets hard. When nasty, negative people challenge your determination to treat others according to the Golden Rule, it’s way easier to flip-flop the rule-to dish back to them what they dished out to you! Or when you get tired or stressed, your willingness to love wears thin. You can know what’s right, but you still need the Holy Spirit’s power to do what’s right.
3. What’s the difference between how the Bible defines love and how my con­science and common sense tell me to act? You might be able to trust your conscience and common sense most of the time, but they aren’t perfect. Your conscience can take its cues from influences around you, urges from inside you, and even tempta­tions from the devil. “Common sense” just means something is widely accepted crowds of people and whole countries can be twisted by the same ungodly pressures that affect personal conscience. Without a changeless standard for behavior-those moral “absolutes” anchored to God himself and expressed in the Bible-eventually you miss the mark.
REFLECT: How would you have answered Nina?
PRAY: God, there are great people all around me. Show me how to help them see that they still need to know you.

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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Finding the Road to Freedom

11/24/2020

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PICTURE YOURSELF WALKING down a road. The scenery is stunning, the weather is great. Then you see a fork in the road. Your map shows that the road to the right is the correct road. But that narrow road heads straight uphill and looks grueling. The road to the left is wide and runs downhill. So which do you pick?
If you want to honor your Lord, you’ll choose the road to the right that leads away from evil. Walking this tougher road takes faith that says, “Regardless of what Satan tells me, regardless of how appealing sin seems, regardless of how easily I can keep my wrong quiet, I choose to follow the right road.”
Take sex, for example. Left-hand road thinking says, “Any time, any place, any person available.” Right-hand road thinking says, ”I’m confident that if I don’t com­promise physically, God will build character into my life and provide the right per­son for me to marry.”
As you walk the path of life, you will stand at many forks in the road. Each time you have to make a choice. The first choice is always the hardest. Each time after that it gets easier. It’s like training for a marathon. The first run is a killer, but as a runner builds strength and endurance, runs become faster and farther. Only after months of training is a runner ready for a 26.2-mile race.
But what would happen if a marathon runner flopped on the couch, scarfed junk food, and hung out with friends who made fun of running? Spiritual laziness, spiri­tual junk food (like too much TV with no Bible reading), and unspiritual friends who mock godly things will all shrink your spiritual endurance. If you want to honor Jesus Christ to the last step of the race, first be a man or woman of faith. Second, stay spiritually fit so you will have the stamina to keep saying no.
One of the best ways to keep on God’s road is to learn to walk away from situa­tions you know will press you to compromise. Think about it: If you know you’re in for a bad situation, why go there? Some parties are just asking for trouble. So are places like your girlfriend’s or boyfriend’s home when parents are away. And some possessions, like an R-rated video, can be killers in your walk with Christ.
Think hard when you reach a fork in the road. And pick God’s path.
REFLECT: How determined are you to pick God’s path? What makes choosing the right road hard?
PRAY: Talk to God now about some of the danger areas in your life. Ask him to build up your resistance to those temptations.

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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Bringing Out the Big Gun

11/24/2020

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​Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 6:18
MAYBE YOU BELIEVE that helping non-Christian friends get right with God starts with sharing the good news about Christ. Actually, it begins with prayer. When you share truth, you march into enemy territory. You can’t do that without prayer any more than ground troops can take control of enemy territory without air support.
Prayer is simply talking to God in everyday language about your thoughts, feel­ings, and concerns. And you can be totally confident that God hears you when you pray. In fact, God eagerly waits for you to come to him in prayer. You are his child, and he values every minute you spend with him.
Why is prayer so great? Some important answers:
    1. Prayer helps you focus on God. It helps you plug in to God’s strength (Psalm 105:4). When you take time to pray, you unplug your mind from TV and CDs and plug in to God.
    2. Prayer is intimacy with God. As you pray, God becomes a deep, personal friend. As you hang with God in prayer, you stay in tune with his heartbeat for you and the non-Christians he wants to reach through you.
    3. Prayer is a vital weapon in spiritual battle. Spiritual conflict is real. And prayer is the biggest evil-blasting bomb in your arsenal. In Ephesians 6:10­20, the apostle Paul lists the armor you are to use to fight the spiritual battle. He says to wear your faith as a shield against Satan’s flaming arrows, to put on salvation as your helmet, and to use God’s Word as your sword (verses 16-17). Then Paul tells how prayer works in spiritual warfare (verses 18-20):
  • Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for Christians everywhere.
  • Ask God to give you and other Christians the right words.
  • Pray that Christians will keep on speaking boldly for him, as we should.
When you pray, God acts! Your prayers for your non-Christian friends paralyze Satan as God works in their lives. God prepares your friends to receive the message ­and he gives you strength to speak up.
God has his mind made up to do some astonishing things on your campus and in your community. When you pray, you get hold of God-and in sync with what he in­tends to accomplish.
REFLECT: Are you taking advantage of the powerful weapon of prayer? How could your experience of prayer be improved?
PRAY: Ask God to deepen your prayer life.

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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How Can Anyone Love a Mess Like This?

11/24/2020

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If you do sin, there is someone to plead for you before the Father. He is Jesus Christ, the one who pleases God completely. 1 John 2:1
“I KNOW I’m supposed to love others like I love myself,” Sydney says with a pained look on her face, “but I have a hard time seeing anything about me worth loving. If I have an inferiority complex, it’s only because I really am inferior.”
The straightest route to good self-love is seeing yourself through the eyes of the God who loves you. Saturate yourself with scriptural truth about your identity in Christ. For example:
  • God loves you and gave his Son for you (1 John 4:10).
  • You are a child of God (John 1:12; Romans 8:14-15).
  • Christ calls you his friend (John 15:15).
  • God’s Spirit lives in you (1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19).
  • You are brand-new in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17).
  • God has made you righteous in Christ (Ephesians 4:24).
  • You are God’s workmanship (Ephesians 2:10).
The more thoroughly you get into your head the truth about who you are in Christ, the more you will be able to love yourself as God does.
“But I don’t get it,” Sydney argues, sounding defeated. “How can I love myself when I keep sinning? It makes me hate myself.”
Pretending you’re perfect isn’t what healthy self-love is about. You don’t have to give up on yourself and say, ”I’m never going to get it together spiritually.” You aren’t called to sin-but when you do, Christ represents you before the Father to help you make things right and go on (1 John 2:1). You can continue working to build your faith and fix patterns that lead to sin. As you press on toward maturity, you are in the process of becoming what God wants you to be.
So when you sin-and no, God isn’t shocked when you do-don’t make things worse by giving up on yourself. Confess your sin, receive God’s forgiveness, and keep growing. Perfection is your ultimate goal, but you won’t get there until you get to heaven. Don’t get down on yourself every time your imperfections smack you up­side the head. Your goal for now is maturity, not perfection-and you can succeed at that in some way every day.
REFLECT: How can knowing your identity in Christ affect the way you think about yourself?
PRAY: Bring your failures and sins to God today in prayer and receive his forgiveness.

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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The Sibling Distractor

11/23/2020

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What’s Pearl’s problem? Her little sister Vida makes a terrible mess when she’s in Pearl’s room. What if there is a way to distract Vida from coming into the room in the first place?
Ramps, pullies, a toy train, fart spray, and a chocolate bar that looks like poop all come to the rescue in this episode of What’s Your Problem? Inventor team Joseph Herscher, Mikayla Stokes, and Brett Doar create a few Rube Goldberg-style contraptions to help distract Vida. Herscher tests them on his little friend Wiremu, and Stokes tests some stinky odors for science!
Will these ideas properly sidetrack or discourage a younger sibling like Vida from mischief?

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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The 115,000+ piece K’NEX Ball Machine at The Works Museum

11/23/2020

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K’NEX enthusiast Austin Granger of the YouTube Channel Austron built a giant K’NEX Ball Machine at The Works Museum in Bloomington, Minnesota. The structure is made with more than 115,000 K’NEX pieces and includes more than 850 feet of track. It’s an expansion of his previous K’NEX ball machine for the museum. From The Works:
We asked Austin what advice he’d share with young visitors who want to build machines like this one. He said to start by challenging yourself to build the strongest towers, bridges and other structures you can. The frame of your machine needs to be strong in order to withstand moving parts. Once your structures are strong, work on building even higher and longer structures – bridges that span longer distances and towers that reach the ceiling. The next step – add in the kinetic pieces. It involves a lot of trial and error to learn the skills and understand how to engineer with K’NEX at this scale.

Note:  The above comes directly from their website.  Click here to read more!

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TKSST:  How to Make a Steel Track Marble Run, a Step-by-Step Guide

11/19/2020

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"Netherlands⁣-based designer and maker Daniel de Bruin creates a variety of machines and devices, including kaleidoscopes, gear reduction machines, and steel track marble runs. In the video below, he demonstrates how to make a steel track marble run...."

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ComputerScience.org:  The Ultimate STEM Resource Guide for Kids

11/17/2020

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DIY Nano:
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DIY Nano consists of short videos, activities, and experiments revolving around nanotechnology. The free app teaches about nanoscale technology related to biology, chemistry, and substance properties, plus science and engineering vocabulary.

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TKSST:  How to Make a PB&J Sandwich with a Rube Goldberg Machine (or five)

11/16/2020

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"How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich when you’re busy reading? Perhaps a Rube Goldberg machine can help. Or how about five mini Rube Goldberg machines? Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines is at it again with this fun and surprising sandwich-making contraption series..."
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