Faith Curricula Library: Tapestry of Faith: Miracles: A Multigenerational Program on Living in Awe and Wonder

Leader Resources in Miracles

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  • Ball of light and lightening in a purple sky.
    Leader Resource 1: Ball Lightning Images
    From Miracles

    The photograph of ball lightning is reproduced from the HypeScience website. The 1886 illustration of ball lightning, “Globe of Fire Descending into a Room,” is public domain from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

  • Fibonacci Spiral Pattern.
    Leader Resource 1: Fibonacci Images
    From Miracles

    Tree and pinecone illustrations show Fibonacci patterns in nature, courtesy of the Fractal Foundation.

  • Hexahexaflexagon Blank Template, from Gathering for Gardner, a conference, foundation, and community of people connected to Martin Gardner, 1914-2010, who popularized the flexagon.
    Leader Resource 1: Hexaflexagon Template and Instructions
    From Miracles

    From Gathering for Gardner, a conference, foundation, and community of people connected to Martin Gardner, 1914-2010, who popularized the flexagon. Permission pending. Printing This Handout Download a high-resolution copy of this Handout (PDF) for printing.

  • Instructions on how to make an Anemometer.
    Leader Resource 1: How to Make an Anemometer
    From Miracles

    From the Climate Kids pages of the website of the Southeast Regional Climate Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; used with permission.

  • Leader Resource 1: It's a Miracle
    From Miracles

    The Universe The Sun Stars Earth Seasons Love Snowflakes Human hands The brain Fingerprints A beating heart Childbirth Our senses Growing Breathing Thinking Healing A stone statue crying real tears A baby found alive five days after a tsunami A mother chimpanzee caring for a baby tiger One person…

  • Leader Resource 1: Loaves and Fishes Skit
    From Miracles

    “The Story of the Loaves and the Fishes,” adapted by Patti Walzer, M.Ed. Narrator: Wherever Jesus went, thousands of followers would come to hear him teach and to be healed of sickness. He and his disciples decided to escape awhile so that they could rest together undisturbed by the crowds of…

  • Leader Resource 1: Transformation Station Instructions
    From Miracles

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  • Earthquake lights in Sichuan, China in 2008.
    Leader Resource 2: Earthquake Lights Image
    From Miracles

    These earthquake lights were observed minutes before the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Sichuan, China in 2008. Photo is from a video posted on YouTube.

  • Leader Resource 2: Loaves and Fishes – The Real Miracle
    From Miracles

    Excerpts from Gil Bailie’s discussion of the Miracle of Fish and Loaves, in Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (New York: Crossroad, 1995). …Jesus seems to have found the popular appetite for miracles exasperating. At times he fled from crowds looking for a miracle worker, and he…

  • Picture of the Center of the Galaxy.
    Leader Resource 2: You Are Here
    From Miracles

    Photo credit: Robert Hurt, IPAC; Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF. From the website of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation.

  • Sliding rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention.
    Leader Resource 3: Sliding Rocks Images
    From Miracles
  • Graphic of atom.
    Leader Resource 3: The Atom
    From Miracles