Musings of a Middleschool/Highschool Sunday school teacher

one of the things I try to do as a teacher for middleschool and Highschool students is to try to have topics which are applicable in their everyday life. From things like making the right choices in school, to trying to help them see the importance of living their faith in their everyday lives, not just at Church on Sunday. I'm always looking for topics, one of the ways I do this is to give them about 15-20 minutes of conversation time at the beginning of class. I try to engage them in conversations about their lives. As they talk I try to listen for things in their lives that concern them. I've discovered that at this age, what is important to them varies tremendously. Other things I listen for is to see where the conversations, and questions lead during the Sunday school lesson, a good example of this is last week we were having our lesson, and some how the question came up of evolution. Now my entire Sunday school class believes in God, but still the question of evolution is something that they need to deal with because evolution is what is taught in schools. As a result of their questions I found myself looking for a way to help them build, and understand why there is such a huge difference between creation and evolution. I found a wonderful resource on line which has a 12 week program on Creation vs Evolution, it is aimed at highschool, and adult Sunday School Classes. I think I will use this as a general guide for the next several weeks, it is a very well put together course by a group of Scientists who are also Christians. It should make for some interesting discussions. I ask for your prayers as I enter into this challenging topic.