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Elementary Bible Curriculum

Summit’s Bible Curriculum equips K-12 educators to go beyond just reading Bible stories with a life-changing biblical worldview curriculum. When kids grasp the TRUTH, their lives change.

Discipling the next generation is challenging in today’s post-Christian culture, but we’ve been equipped with the best biblical worldview curriculum for decades. Let’s walk in truth together as we transform your student’s faith, worldview, and life!

Curriculum Philosophy

After years of religious education, students can often fail to understand the relationships between the facts they have memorized about Christianity and their lives. As a result, the Bible feels unrelated to the real-life issues students face. The Christian life becomes relegated to Sunday mornings, reading the Bible and prayer a few minutes a day, at best.

At Summit Ministries, we are passionate about teaching students how a biblical worldview addresses all aspects of life. Our curriculum aims to help students develop a cohesive biblical worldview through which they can interpret the world around them and respond to it biblically in both their thoughts and actions.

Building on the Rock is a Bible curriculum that helps students explore Scripture while laying the foundation for a biblical worldview. It presents timeless Bible stories through the lens of twenty foundational truths, connecting each story to God’s bigger narrative of redemption. As students engage with Scripture, they begin to see how every part of the Bible fits into God’s plan to restore all things through a relationship with Him.

A five-level K–5 program combining Bible Survey and worldview training through a spiral sequence that grows with your students.

Grade K introduces the Biblical Truths and some of the character traits.
Grade levels 1–5 concentrate on one of the five levels of the curriculum, and they either review or preview the other four.

Explore the Building on the Rock curriculum

Fast Facts

Cross-curricular
Spiral sequenced
Bible verse memorization
Character formation centric
Teacher-friendly layout
Online tools
Biblical truth songs
Teacher training
Classroom visuals
Print-ready copies
Lesson plan templates

Student Workbooks

The Student Workbook (SW) is a full-color workbook with perforated pages designed for student use. Each daily lesson has its own student workbook page. In lower grades, teachers will need to read the directions and some of the sentences for the students. In upper grades, students can complete the exercises on their own.

Presentation Slides

Presentation Slides (PS) are available online. These full-color visual aids enhance instruction and can be printed or displayed using a computer or projector The Biblical Truth Couplets are also available online in the Teacher Resources.

20 Biblical Truths

The 20 biblical truths serve as the foundational material that provides direction for the entire Building on the Rock series. These truths display how our human relationships with God, ourselves, others, and creation follow the arc of the biblical metanarrative—creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. Internalizing these truths will form the whole of a biblical perspective of all things.

20 Character Traits

Over the course of Building on the Rock, each unit will have a character trait of focus. As students learn about the character of God they will grow in understanding of how he desires for us to live, reflecting his character to the world.

Bible Survey

Throughout Building on the Rock, students will learn the story of how reality came to be, what went wrong in the Garden, God’s initiative to make things right again, how God walked alongside his people, and the life of Jesus—the redeemer of all things. While learning this biblical story, the curriculum’s 20 truths serve as the cornerstone themes rooting students in a biblical worldview.

House of Truth Model

The House of Truth is a 3D model used throughout the curriculum as a visual representation of building our faith on the rock of God’s word. Each wall is composed of the emphasized truths for each grade, and the roof is constructed by the character traits. Students see—and participate in—the construction of the model each year.