How does Rotation Sunday school work

It's called the Workshop Rotation Model, and it works like this:
Children from first grade to fourth grade are divided into age-specific groups. Major Bible stories and concepts are presented through kid-friendly multimedia workshops, for example, Art, Drama, Games, Science, Puppets, Storytelling, Cooking, or any other educational media we can devise. We teach the same Bible story in each of the workshops for as 3-4 weeks, rotating the groups to a different workshop each week. One Scripture memory verse underlies the lessons during the entire rotation and is emphasized each week. In this way, children have opportunity to take in the lessons from Scripture over several weeks.

What's Great About Workshop Rotation?
The kids love it! Feedback has been positive - they're
clearly having a lot of fun in Sunday School, and are learning at the same time. They enjoy the variety (they all have their favorites) and have amazed their teachers and shepherds with what they have retained, including memorized Scriptures.
Repetition. The Workshop Rotation Model concentrates on the major stories of the Bible over and over again. The model's philosophy recognizes that kids not only love repetition, but they need it to develop a lasting memory and understanding of content.

Multi-modal learning.
Children learn in different ways.
The various approaches to learning employed over the 3 or 4 week presentation of a Bible story take advantage of this. Traditional Sunday School with one lead teacher requires a lesson with six or more different steps, a game, a craft, Bible study and music all in 45 minutes leaving only really organized, gifted teachers to teach the children. Parents are the ones called to raise their children into spiritual champions, and with The Rotation model, all parents can be a part of our Sunday morning team.With the workshop Rotation Model, teachers and shepherds can each do one thing, and do it well.

Teacher repetition.
By the second week of the rotation, the teacher is already improving the original lesson plan for the next class. Since each workshop uses essentially the same lesson plan for several weeks in a row, every week isn't a production. And because the teacher is assigned to teach in the creative mode they are comfortable with, the teaching and learning experience are enriched.

There are many websites – like www.rotation.org -- that feature complete rotation lesson plans, a resource directory and a creative ideas area for each workshop, all of which can be printed out for free. The lessons and ideas are contributed from other Workshop Rotation churches. Using on-line material allows us to update
for our needs as we wish.