Looking for a middle school Bible study? Take a look at the middle school Bible curriculum homeschool families love!
Middle school students are at a vital stage of development. As they learn and grow, young teens are beginning to connect facts and apply logic to the world around them. Our middle schoolers will either apply a biblical worldview to that logic, or they will understand the world around them through a secular filter.
My husband, Ed, and I wanted our middle schoolers to really know and understand the Bible. We also wanted them to enjoy their time studying God’s Word. Middle school students enjoy studying a subject deeply, and the Bible is no different. I wrote the middle school level of Bible Road Trip™ to include a deeper study of each book of the Bible, of the lands and times Scripture is set in, and of the cultures involved in the stories of the Bible.
Our middle school students enjoyed their three-year study of God’s Word, and yours can too.
Best of all, your middle school students will read through the Bible, cover-to-cover, in just three years with the Dialectic (grades 7-9) level of Bible Road Trip™.
Just gather a few resources before you start, and your family can study God’s Word with this open-and-go curriculum middle schoolers love.
Middle School Bible for Homeschool …and for Family Worship!
Bible Road Trip™ for your middle school aged teens allows you to spend time each week exploring God’s Word as a family. The level your middle schoolers will study at:
- Dialectic | This level is intended for grades 7-9. Families will read around 3 chapters each day.
Notes on using the Dialectic middle school level in your family:
- Some books, like Genesis, will involve more daily reading. Weeks that involve extra reading can be spread over two weeks, if it fits your family’s schedule better.
- For 6th graders, I suggest using the Upper Grammar level, then moving to the Dialectic level in 7th grade.
The curriculum uses classical Christian education principles as the underlying philosophy. Your middle schoolers have spent many years memorizing and absorbing information. In the middle school years, their brains are making connections, applying logic to facts, and connecting one fact to another. This is the time when your young teens are establishing their worldview, and learning how to apply Scripture to their daily lives. This is the perfect time to help your middle schoolers think deeply about Scripture, to research the world and history of the Bible, to learn about important doctrines, to give them important Bible verses to memorize, and to teach them to write about truths that matter.
As your teen grows, your family can take them through the Bible two times before they graduate, each time exploring God’s Word at a deeper level. The Dialectic curriculum will lay the groundwork for a lifetime of Bible study for your teens, setting a rhythm for daily study in their lives.
Each year of the three-year Bible Road Trip™ curriculum involves 32-weeks of study. Each week moves students through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, in a unit study style method, with students studying books of the Bible for one to five weeks per book.
- Bible Road Trip™ Year One covers the books of law and history (Genesis to Esther).
- Bible Road Trip™ Year Two covers the books of poetry and prophecy (Job to Malachi).
- Bible Road Trip™ Year Three covers the books of the New Testament (Matthew to Revelation).
Take a look inside the Bible Road Trip™ curriculum! Let me show you around:
Take the Learning to the Next Level with Notebooking
Notebooking is a wonderful way for your middle school students to expand their study of the Bible.
For middle schoolers, the Bible Road Trip™ notebooking journals are a great way to incorporate language arts in your homeschool.
Notebooking develops a number of vital skills:
- Handwriting | The process of writing long-hand naturally helps develop handwriting.
- Reading and Listening Comprehension | Notebooking requires attention and understanding of the information being processed and narrated in written or visual form.
- Pre-writing | Notebooking helps students learn to take notes, to identify important information, and to organize their thoughts. It helps them make note of what they’d like to research later.
- Research | Notebooking can be an excellent way to inspire further topical research and to record the results of that research.
- Long-term Memory | Notebooking helps cement what students have studied into their long-term memory.
- Cognitive Skills | Notebooking requires a higher thought process. As students write, they will recall and examine what they’ve learned.
The Dialectic Notebooking Journal has age-appropriate line widths and an appropriate amount of space for your teens to write.
Take a look inside the Bible Road Trip™ Notebooking Journals! Let me show you around:
Bible Memory for Middle School
Your middle school students will memorize a verse each week.
Bible Road Trip™ Bible memory verse cards make this task simple for you as a parent, and fun for your middle schoolers. With beautiful artwork, and lines of Scripture arranged in beats, your kids can easily memorize God’s Word, one line at a time.
Notes on memorization:
- Dialectic students often have been through the Lower Grammar and Upper Grammar levels. Some of the memorization will be review, and they will be building on prior knowledge. If, however, students just beginning with Bible Road Trip™, or those who struggle with memorization, should start with just one verse each week.
- As they practice memorizing, your teens can add additional weekly verses. You will find a chapter on memorization tips and strategies, aimed at helping your teens based on their learning style, in Help Your Kids Learn and Love the Bible.
- Teens who follow the Dialectic memorization schedule will memorize verses from throughout the Bible, and–over the course of three years–will also memorize the first 12 chapters of Romans.
Take a closer look at the Bible Road Trip™ Memory Cards:
Purchase Bible Road Trip™ Year One | Dialectic (grades 7-9)
Want to start teaching your middle school students the Bible, right from the very beginning? There are three ways to purchase Year One:
- The printed starter pack
- In digital
- In print
The Bible memory verse cards are digital–just print them on cardstock and cut them apart! (Choose ESV or KJV in the pull down menu.)
You can get all five levels of the curriculum in the Family curriculum. Find Year One below. (For Years Two and Three, choose the Family level in the pull down menu.)
You can also start with Year Two (the Books of Poetry and Prophecy) or Year Three (the Books of the New Testament).
Find the recommended resources for Dialectic (grades 7-9) here.
Books Make Great Gifts!
Teach Your Kids the Bible with Bible Road Trip™
Bible Road Trip™ is a three-year Bible survey curriculum. Take your family through the Bible five times from preschool to high school.
To help you get the most out of your studies, Bible Road Trip™ has an array of coordinating weekly activities:
- Researching the section of the Bible you’re studying
- Reading and discussing the Bible
- Memorizing Scripture
- Notebooking about your studies
- Praying for the nations
- Suggestions for further study
- Crafting about what you’ve learned
- For your older students: A project to share what they’ve learned
- Bible Road Trip™ also has some great tools you can use along with it, such as:
- Notebooking Journals for grades 1-9. Want a structured notebooking journal for high school? Don’t hesitate to use the Dialectic journal (grades 7-9).
- Bible Memory Card Sets for all five levels of study, preschool to high school. These are available in both ESV and KJV.
Grab your Bible Road Trip™ Year One Sample Pack. You’ll get:
- The Bible Road Trip™ Parent / Teacher Guide.
- The first three weeks of the curriculum for all five learning levels. Week Three is where we really dive into the Bible and begin to our systematic study. Week Three will give you a good feel for the rest of the curriculum.
- The first three weeks of the Bible Memory Card sets for all five levels, in ESV and KJV.
- The first three weeks of each of the three leveled Notebooking Journals.
Grab the Sample Pack for FREE:
Disciple your kids by taking your family through the Bible together in a meaningful way!
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Bible Road Trip™ Curriculum
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