SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: The spirit who Salvation topic: Confirmation Human person Topic: wondering at
strengthens the creator of emotions

Year Level: 4 Students’ Prior Knowledge:

Key Understanding: Students recently received their first holy communion
A2 wondering at the creator of emotions Year 6’s are about to receive confirmation
This is the second lesson for this unit of work
Learning Point(s):
In the previous lesson students looked at physical and
A2.1 express wonder at the creator of emotions internal emotions and individually selected colours to
represent different emotions e.g. yellow for happy
Students are familiar with the fruit of the spirit

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 histories Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
and cultures
Lesson Objectives
• Categorise the fruit of the spirit into physical and internal feelings
• Compare the colours used in the first lesson to the colours used in this lesson
• Write a response to the discussion question

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

(include Teacher Witness)
• Religion tab in one note has a new page ready for the
students to respond in
• Table is already on the white board
• Envelopes are sorted and there is enough for everyone
• The teacher has an example of a different sheet already
coloured in, so they can explain to the students the
requirements of the activity
Choose One from:
• Gifted
This student will be provided with an extra discussion
question and will be challenged to also colour in using
patterns (similarly to the first lesson)
Choose One from:
• Physical disability
This student has limited control over their fine motor skills
such as colouring, they will be given a digital copy of the
sheet, so they can just click and fill in the areas of the
picture
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
12:00pm
Envelopes
1. Once students are quietly seated on the mat hand out the mystery
envelopes to the students
2. Once each student has an envelope ask the students what we looked at
in the previous lesson
• Responses should be something like “the difference between
inner and outer feelings” Whiteboard
12:02pm
3. Spin the white board around to reveal two columns reading physical
and internal
4. Choose students who are showing whole body listening to open their
envelopes and stick their emotion/feeling on the board
5. There are enough cards for all students and contained in the cards are
the fruit of the spirit, other cards are different feelings
12:05pm 6. Once all the cards are on the board ask the students if anyone can
recognise anything (FoS)
7. Once a student identifies the fruit of the spirit ask the students why God
gave them to us
8. Discuss

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

12:10pm
1. Inform students that they are going to have a choice of pictures to
colour in
2. Students need to colour the page using colours they think are
representative of the feelings we get from God (FoS) Colouring in sheets
3. Place down the three-different colouring in sheets for students to
choose (see resource page)
• Instruct the physically disabled student to use their ipad to
12:12pm
access the digital version
4. Once the students have their sheet they can go to their desk and start
colouring
• Students are to work individually
• If the noise level begins to rise, prise a student/s who is
modelling your ideal behaviour
5. Students who are not showing pride in their work will be asked to start
again
12:20pm 6. Instruct students to pack away the stationary

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

1. Instruct the students to come to the mat and bring their drawing with
12:21pm them
2. Get the students to turn to the person next to them and explain why they
chose the colours they did
12:22pm 3. Hand back the drawings from the previous lessons
• Give the students a minute to compare the colours they used
for the first drawing to today’s drawing
• Ask the students to consider the differences and similarities of
the colours and why that might be
• Is it because you felt differently about the fruits of the spirit?
Why?
4. Students share with each other and then the class
12:27 5. Write the discussion question on the board iPads
• “Do the feelings that we receive from God through the Holy
Spirit help us to live a happier and better life? How?” One Note
• Provide Gifted student with extra question
12:28pm
6. Students find a quite spot in the room and write a response on One Note
using their iPads
12:35pm 7. Instruct students to pack away
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

1. Students are seated on the mat after packing away their sheets into their
religion book

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will they be assessed?)

1. An informal, summative observation of the completed check list can be

made to determine the success of the table

2. An informal, formative observation with anecdotal note can be used to

determine whether the students were able to compare the two drawings

3. A formal, summative review of the student’s submissions on one note

can be done to accurately determine the quality of the response to the
discussion question.