{"id":11680,"date":"2021-06-18T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainbibleteachers.com\/blog\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:04:35","slug":"faq-about-teaching-manipulatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainbibleteachers.com\/blog\/faq-about-teaching-manipulatives.htm","title":{"rendered":"FAQ About Teaching Manipulatives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTeaching manipulatives<\/a> can include a variety of objects students can use to build or move around in some way. At times students might replicate something as close as possible to the original, depending on the lesson objective, while other times they might use their creativity and imagination.<\/p>\n

Examples: blocks, puzzles, counting chips, play money, rubber stamps, tiles, cubes, beads, cups, macaroni, rocks, candy pieces (i.e., M&Ms), craft sticks, foam shapes, small plastic\/rubber animals or people, magnets, tubes, pegs, magnetic numbers and letters, etc.<\/p>\n

Questions About Using Teaching Manipulatives as Tools for Bible Learning Activities<\/h2>\n

Other than time fillers, why should we use blocks, puzzles, or other teaching manipulatives with children?<\/p>\n

As active learners, it’s important to give children hands-on opportunity to learn, engage, and interact. Using manipulatives as teaching tools gets beyond merely visualizing to constructing or manipulating objects to represent what they\u2019re learning. When they’re able to construct something pertaining to a Bible story or truth, it helps their understanding by giving them a more concrete perspective of an abstract or unknown concept. It’s a way to physically represent what they’re learning. It’s up to the teacher to help children get beyond the play value of these tools to make the connection to what they’re learning.<\/p>\n

Other questions about using manipulative teaching tools:<\/p>\n