[Teachldsseminary] Teach D&C 89

[Dana Burgess]

I taught the Word of Wisdom lesson today and used a great object lesson that 
I thought I'd share. I found it somewhere on the net so I can't take full 
credit but the applications are many and varied. You have your 'volunteer' 
student sit on the floor with a baking pan in front of them. You tell them 
that they are to grab as many candies as they can in 1 min. but they have to 
keep their eyes on the pan; no looking around. Have another student time. 
Stand beside the student and start dropping various sizes and colors of 
candy from a bowl one at a time into the pan. The student will become very 
focused on the pan and grab the candy as fast as they can. Only drop one 
candy at a time, student grabs it, you drop another. After about 7 or 8 
candies have been snagged drop a raw egg onto the pan. The student will grab 
the broken egg. To make this work you have to have a container for the candy 
and egg that the students can't see into and you have to keep the volunteer 
busy grabbing candy - no long pauses between candy. (the timer is really 
just to convince the kids that you really are playing a get the candy game) 
After the class noise died down, we talked about: how the candy wasn't 
really good for you but not really bad either and how those kinds of things 
can become such a habit that you don't even notice when they turn bad; how 
the student thought she could trust me so she didn't pay much attention to 
what I was giving her instead of checking for herself; I'm sure you could 
think of applications that would be appropriate for your class. I was just 
amazed at how well it worked.
Dana

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