SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Salvation topic: Human person Topic:
Beautiful World, Beautiful Me Baptism The Promise of Christian Salvation
Year Level: Year 2 Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
B1. Jesus helps his followers appreciate beauty in creation
- This lesson will follow the focus of wondering at God
the creator of all in section A
- In Year 1, students in the salvation topic of Baptism
Learning Point(s): focused on how Jesus belonged to a family and taught
B1.1 Identifies examples of Jesus teaching his followers to people how to relate to other in their families and
appreciate beauty in creation communities
- There is a big focus on belonging

Spiritual and Religious Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance Faith Hope Charity
eg Right choices eg Right eg Inner strength eg Moderation eg Prayer eg Reconciliation eg Service
relationships
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative behaviour Social understanding
thinking competence

Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Sustainability
histories and cultures Asia
Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)
As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:
 Contribute at least one idea to the class Padlet in regard to the focus question
 Write a 6-line prayer of thanks and appreciation about God’s creations
 Demonstrate an ability to use Book Creator to write, voice record and add photos or drawings

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:

(include Teacher Witness) Choose One from:
• Gifted
- Paper with template for writing 6-line prayers • Sensory impaired
• Learning difficulty
- All iPads are charged (including teachers one) As an extension for students they can contribute at least 2 ideas to the
- Padlet created and link is available to send to children class Padlet, and for an enabling prompt, the students who are struggling
- Access to interactive whiteboard can just write a prayer of about 3 lines long.
- Segmented excerpts of Matthew 6: 25-28
Choose One from:
- Resource sheet 1 (Suggested prayer beginnings and • ADHD
endings) • Intellectual disability
• Physical disability
Make a squishy ball (similar to a stress ball) for the child to fiddle with
whilst sitting down.
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
5mins - Gather the class on the mat (or if it’s a nice day, gather outside under some where they will be introduced.
shade)
- Read Matthew 6:25-28 Matthew 6:25-28 extract
o Shared reading format (invite students to read a verse each) (Appendix 1)
o Have four pieces of paper, each with a different verse from 25-28
and ask four students to stand up and read them in the order

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):

10mins - Class discussion about the many things Jesus taught
o Ask students to think hard about things in general they know Jesus
iPads
taught, as well as what he taught explicitly in the extract read
Interactive whiteboard access
before
o Students will use their iPads to go onto Padlet for a class
discussion: https://padlet.com/20171660/2t0ifvg0uwor
o Will be given 2 minutes to come up with as many ideas as possible
by themselves and then when the teacher says so, they can try
come up with ideas in small groups
o After everyone has made at least one post each on the Padlet, the
teacher will facilitate a class discussion where everyone will talk
about the ideas they posted to the class Padlet about what Jesus
taught
o Make sure the discussion involves Jesus’ appreciation of God’s
creation, specifically the birds and the flowers
 “What beauty in Australian birds and flowers might Jesus
have especially enjoyed if he had lived in Australia? ”
5mins
- Explain the task for the lesson
o Students will be creating a class book on Book Creator called
‘Jesus Helps People Appreciate the Beauty in Creation’
o Each student will write a small prayer on paper giving thanks to
God for the beauty in creation, specifically referencing the beauty
of the birds and flowers Templates for written prayers
 Students will be given a template with about 6 lines to (Appendix 2)
right on Teacher iPad
 Before starting the teacher will also ask the students for a Resource sheet 1 (Appendix3)
few suggestions of ways to start and end a prayer, and
give some of their own examples to give more variety if
needed:
 Refer to Resource Sheet 1 (Beautiful World,
15mins Beautiful Me)
o The teacher will go around and get the students to create a page in
the class prayer book that will include:
 Their name
 A small photo of themselves in the corner
 A voice recording of their prayer
 Photos of nature or drawings done with a stylus (this will
be completed after the first three things on individual
iPads and then airdropped to the main iPad with the class
book creator)

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

5mins - Gather class back on the mat
- Start discussion about everyone’s prayers
o Ask students to share some things they mentioned in their prayers Interactive Whiteboard
about appreciation of God’s creation Teacher iPad
 o Select a few (maybe 5) prayers to listen to from the class Book
Creator whilst it’s being projected onto the interactive whiteboard

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

- Students will pack up their workspace and gather on the mat ready for the
next lesson

Assessment checklist (Appendix

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will they be
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assessed?)
- Checklist form of assessment
o Refer to Appendix 4
APPENDIX 1: Matthew 6: 25-18 extract

Matthew 6:25-28 New International Version (NIV)

Do Not Worry
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you
25

will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
26Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father
feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin.

APPENDIX 2: Templates for written prayer

APPENDIX 3: Resource sheet 1
References:
Religious Education Archdiocese of Perth. (n.d.). Beautiful world. Retrieved from
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/bw42c621lodt7vr/AAAROXV_oNl4c8dNW6B32ilza/Early%20Years/Year%202?d
l=0&preview=Beautiful+World.pdf&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

APPENDIX 4: Assessment checklist

KEY:
● = Needs assistance

✔ = Good

✔✔ = Excellent

Student Names: Contribute at least one Write a 6-line prayer Demonstrate an ability Comments:
idea to the class Padlet of thanks and to use Book Creator to
in regard to the focus appreciation about write, voice record and
question God’s creations add photos or
drawings