SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/ Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION

Unit of work: Gift of life Salvation topic: Baptism Human person Topic: Human Life

Year Level: Pre-Primary Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith

Key Understanding: situations/previous lessons/Units)
A1 Wondering at the gift of human life - Students have touched on the concept of
baptism in previous lessons.
- They have learnt about the understanding of the
religious meaning of significant experiences.
Learning Point(s):
A1.1 Identifies signs that they are alive.
A1.2 Identifies actions that people can perform because they
have life.

Spiritual and Religious Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Prudence Justice Fortitude Temperance Faith Hope Charity
eg Right eg Right eg Inner eg Moderation eg Prayer eg eg Service
choices relationships strength Reconciliation
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:
 Identify if they are alive
 Identify actions people can perform because they have a life.

Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for student diversity:

(include Teacher Witness) - For children who struggle with following
- Pictures of people completing various activities directions, que cards and example directions will
- Music (CD) be given to them to help them with staying on
- Puppet task.
- Pens - The Wonder questions will be written on the
- Paper board as prompts for children to look at during
- Assessment notes the activity.
- Gifted children will be explore their own baptism
stories and write or orally explain to the class
their personal stories.
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
- Students will make their way to the front of the class to sit on the
where they will be introduced.
mat in order to start the lesson.
- The teacher will call the students onto the mat depending on the
groups they are sitting in. One group at a time.
- Review the previous lesson (student’s prior knowledge of what
baptism is and what it means to them) by giving an example to the
class of the activity and showing students work.
- Question class about the topic that was viewed, saying…
“Remember when we talked about baptism? We discussed who in this
class had been baptised...”

- On the board will be the wonder questions the teacher wants the
students to focus on…
• I wonder why I am alive?
• I wonder why some things are not alive?
• I wonder why I can feel my pulse?
• I wonder why I can hear my breathing?

- Prior to the activity, pictures of people performing various

activities (ie. showing signs of life) are added to the construction
area.
- Invite the children to look at the picture and identify why people
can do these various activities. Pictures of people completing
- During the activity lead the children to an awareness that people various activities
can do these activities because they have the gift of life.
10mins
• What are some of the people in the picture doing?
• How is it that people can do these activities?

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

- Once the children are aware of the activity and have discussed all
the wonder questions begin the activity.
- Play reflective music to enable the children to settle.
- Invite the children to listen to the sound of their breathing and try
to make it soft and slow.
- Ask the children to try to find a partner’s pulse and to think
whether the pulse is:
• fast or slow
• strong or weak.
- Using lively music, lead the children through an aerobic exercise,
Music (CD)
whilst making a puppet also perform these exercises.
- Invite the children to:
• listen to their breathing
• feel each other’s pulse
• check for a pulse and heartbeat on the puppet.
- In a class circle, share the changes that took place within
themselves and in the puppet.
- Teacher using questions such as…
• Why do you think our breathing changed from slow to
fast?
• Why do you think our hearts beat faster? Puppet
• What changes did you notice in the puppet?
• What makes you different from the puppet?
20mins
 Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
- Once the teacher is happy and all the students have shown they
have achieved the objectives they can transition to the next
lesson.
“I hope everyone enjoyed our religion lesson today learning about the
gift of life. We are going to all go back to our desks now for the next
activity. When I call your group would you please return to your
desk…(Call groups one by one)”

“How can we follow what Jesus did in the way we wait and move back
to our desks?”

5mins - When all children are ready, praise them for their actions and
move onto the next lesson.

Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will they be assessed?)
- Anecdotal notes and observations will be used to assess the Notes for assessment
participation in the activity.
- Relating it to the Sacrament of Baptism.