Heidi Schaeffer, who teaches fifth grade at Christian Academy in Japan, reflects on how questions have helped her students increase their understanding of a Biblical perspective.

The fifth grade science curriculum covers a broad range of topics. To focus the topics around a common theme, I ask my students, “How does God show creativity?” Depending on the topic, I customize the question, for example, How does God show creativity in the weather? in the systems in our body? in atoms?

In our weather study, students wrote: “No two things made by God are the same.” “Clouds are different in shapes, sizes, and the type of weather they bring.” “Even the way raindrops are made is creative.”

In our current health unit, which focuses on growing and changing, one student responded, “God made us with detail. Each one of us is different.”

My students are beginning to see how many ways creation points to the Creator and that there is no end to finding examples of His creativity. It is exciting to remind them that they are also creative because of a creative God!

Using questions has helped my students deepen their understanding of God and His creation. Using questions helped me teach more intentionally.