![]() Joshua and the Walls of Jericho Booklet (PDF). ![]() Learning Objectives: After this lesson, the children will demonstrate an understanding of the story by reenacting the story while the teacher is reading it. You Can Help: Please leave your feedback and suggestions for this lesson plan. Printer Friendly Bible Lesson: this lesson plan ![]() Because this story is made for preschoolers it does not focus on the battle of Jericho, rather on the help God provided by knocking down the walls.īible Story: Joshua and the Walls of Jericho As always, consider your own ministry context and modify it as needed. It could be used in any setting with children age 2-5 at church, including a preschool Sunday School class or a preschool children’s church class. The dark side: Above, Stukas over Poland in 1939.īelow, a 1943 German stamp celebrating the Stuka.This printable lesson plan is designed to teach preschool aged children about the story of the Walls of Jericho. Stuka images below are courtesy of Wikipedia Commons. Stuka images above are from WW-II American airplane spotters manuals. Thanks to Jean Krchnak, UH Art and Architecture slide librarian, for her counsel. Griehl, Junkers Ju 87, Stuka. (Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Pub. See the Wikipedia article about the Junkers Ju 87. See also this site. ( Stuka, by the way is shorthand for the full name Sturzkampfflugzeug or drop-down-fight-airplane.) I'm John Lienhard at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work. And it was also an echo of 1930s art - this angular expressionist woodcut with its fragments of art deco, and just a hint of modern streamlining. And, unless you too are old, you may never've heard of the Stuka. But, for a season, this throwback was the very icon of all that threatened us. We responded with the similar, but more advanced, Vultee Vengeance dive bomber. Here in America, we studied the Stuka just as Germany had studied our old Curtiss biplane. Nevertheless, 6500 were made while engineers tried to save it with every kind of modification and improvement. It became a tool for low-altitude troop support in theaters where there was little allied air presence. That's why the Stuka fell from grace during the Battle of Britain. Send a typical WW-II fighter up against it and it was doomed. As long as the Wehrmacht attacked defenseless enemies, the Stuka was devastatingly effective. The Stuka was something you might expect to see in the 1930s comic strip Smilin' Jack. It had that sort of razzle-dazzle, but it was slow and vulnerable. Of course, I also think grackles are beautiful birds. But I find its functional lines compelling. The wings and tail were angular, while a large nose spinner began a smooth line from nose to tail. An inverted gull wing dipped down from the fuselage to where the landing gear attached, then rose again. Still, teardrop covers streamlined the wheels. Retractable gear would've violated its basic simplicity. The Stuka had both: It was a low winged monoplane with a fixed landing gear. Pohlmann was committed to the art deco ideal of simplicity and angularity. By 1937, he'd given the Stuka its basic form. A young designer, Hermann Pohlmann, responded with a series of attempts to build a competitor. Those were still old biplanes, but the Germans knew they were the warpla ne of the future. Germany had bought four primitive Curtiss dive bombers in the early 1930s. They also set up a strange contradiction between beauty and ugliness. "Sturzkampfflugzeug" or Stuka, Junkers, Ju 87īut, beyond the Stuka's horrific use, I'm troubled by two design elements: Airplanes were in the midst of a leap forward Stukas were yesterday's news as soon as they flew. Of course that soon lost its novelty, while it kept reducing airspeeds by 15 miles-an-hour. The NAZIs called it Jericho's Trumpet, and used it to terrify people below. Early on, it was fitted with a wind-driven siren that uttered a banshee scream at maximum dive speed. Then it was used against Polish civilians in 1939. The Stuka first saw service in the Spanish Civil War. Here was a basic instrument of NAZI Blitzkrieg - war as lightning attack, war as shock and awe. The Stuka has long been a trouble to my mind. But I've avoided one - the World War II Junkers Ju-87, the Stuka dive bomber. ![]() I talk about many different airplanes in this series. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
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