Note to parent or teacher: Here’s a lesson plan on Moses, which highlights the following lesson objective: “Learn of more of the lives of the great men and women of the Bible.” (Christian Life and Faith: Witnessing and Missionary Training: Great Men and Women of God-2a)

Part 1: Moses’ early life
Using a whiteboard, blackboard, or piece of paper, have your children help you draw a rough timeline of Moses’ early life based on what they know. Then continue to fill out and refine this timeline as you read the following articles.

Read “Heroes of the Bible: Moses.”

Read “Adventures in Hebrews, Part 3,” pages 2–4: a brief version of the early part of Moses’ story, as relayed in Hebrews 11.

Watch the music video “Baby in a Basket.”

Ask your children if they think that God had a plan for Moses’ life from before he was born. If they answer “yes,” then ask what makes them think so. Discuss God’s miraculous protection in saving Moses from the Nile, and His great foresight and planning in having Moses grow up as the son of pharaoh’s daughter, and how that might have prepared him for the role God would have him play later on in life.

Read “Exodus 3:1–22.”

Ask your children why they think God used a burning bush to talk with Moses. Discuss how God wants to communicate with us all the time, but often we are too busy to listen, and so He sometimes uses miracles or He allows things to happen that help us be still and listen to His voice. If you have a personal account that illustrates this point, tell your children of it.

Additional material:

• Read of Moses’ early life from The Picture Bible or another illustrated Bible book.
• Watch select portions of The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Part 2: Moses, Israel’s deliverer
Listen to “A Bible Adventure: The Plagues of Egypt.”
Listen to “A Bible Adventure: Walking Through the Sea.”

Discuss the following thought-provoking point in the above audio: “What if instead of raising his rod over the sea in obedience to God’s command, he had chosen to turn back, because of his own people’s foolish desires of the moment, and also in fear of the oncoming enemy forces? It would have been a completely different story with tragic consequences.”

Color “Hero of the Month Coloring Page: Moses.” (Children can color this coloring page as they listen to one of the above stories.)

Read “Chariots in the Red Sea,” a news article on recent discoveries that provide evidence regarding the Bible story found in Exodus 12 to 15.

Listen to “A Bible Adventure: Winning a Battle with Lifted Hands.”

Ask your children why they suppose God told Moses to “Write this story on a scroll for a remembrance and make sure Joshua hears it” (Exodus 17:14, paraphrased). [Answer: So that Joshua would be humble and remember that it was God who gave the victory.]

Take the “Hero of the Month Quiz: Moses.”

Additional material:

• Watch The Ten Commandments (1956)
• Watch Moses (1995)