SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Part B
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION

Unit of work: Nourishing Our Salvation topic: Eucharist Human person Topic: The
Goodness Eucharist Nourishes the
Spiritual in Human Nature

Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith

Year Level: 5 Lesson Duration: 40 min situations/previous lessons/Units)
The students have previously learnt about
Key Understanding: their own talents and others talents
A1 Wondering at the good qualities people
B2 Jesus gave the Eucharist to help people live
discover within themselves
good lives
Learning Point(s): • A1.1 Identifies that all people have
talents.
B2.1 Relates ways people can lead good lives
as they are strengthened by Jesus through the • A1.2 Expresses wonder at the good
Eucharist. qualities discovered within.

A2 Wondering at God who created good

qualities within people

A2.1 Expresses wonder at God who created

good qualities within people.

A3 Attribute: God loves personally

A3.1 Celebrates God who loves personally.

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:

- Explain in their own words verbally what the four type of goodness are and how we are expected to deliver
on them.
- Students can detail and give reasons how taking communion help Catholics keep this promise?

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

(include Teacher Witness)
Load video clip to Class desktop computer and
pre load test play.
Have word document ready on class computer
for Acrostic pomes
Have magazines ready from class pile, if more
require bring from home, ensure good range.
• Learning difficulty - pair student with a
more capable student and give them
support words for the silhouette.
• Physical disability: assist student to
participate in the group work by setting
him up at a table and his group work
around him. He may sit at the table for
reading time
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction: Align these with the segment
Start Watch the you tube clip; where they will be introduced.
0mins
https://youtu.be/TCSUKIhjevo (Are you a good person- You tube clip loaded on
youtube) (6 mins) classroom desktop to play
through IWB
Discuss with the students
- What make a good person?
- Are you a good person?
- If you don’t do what it says in the video are you a bad
person?

The students identify the human qualities exhibited by the

different characters. Discuss with the students how the
character(s) developed their good human qualities.

+10mins
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key
Questions):

Explain to the students that Jesus gave his followers the

Eucharist. As Jesus’ followers receive him in Holy
Communion, Jesus strengthens them to lead good lives.

People at times find it difficult to develop their qualities

sufficiently to behave in ways that always show these
qualities. There are times when they find it hard to be:

• kind, instead of ignoring or treating people unkindly

• courageous, instead of going along with peers and others

who want them to do what they know to be wrong

• honest, instead of taking or not returning what belongs to

others, or telling lies

• compassionate, instead of ignoring, bullying or picking on

people who, for example, feel sad

People can find it hard to develop and to express their inner

good qualities because of strong emotions, such as anger,
resentment, fear or desire for what does not belong to them.
They can find it hard to overcome bad habits, such as lying
or picking on people.
 To help his followers to develop and to express their inner
good qualities so that, increasingly, they show goodness in
these special ways, Jesus gave them the Eucharist. As they
receive him in Holy Communion, Jesus strengthens
goodness within them. As their good qualities grow
stronger, they find it easier to overcome selfishness and
temptations to speak or act in ways that are unkind,
dishonest or that ignore others in need.

Hand out the RE journals, RE journals

Hand out printed ready for
students.
+ 13 min The students complete the following sentence on the hand
out, that is then to be put into their RE journals (utlise hand
out to save time with students copying Questions)

• Receiving Jesus in Holy Communion strengthens people

to ...?
• I can live a good life by?
• Receiving the Holy Communion reminds me ……. and
helps me to….?
• The phrase “do this in memory of me” makes me feel…
and means to me……….?
•
• How different would the world be if everyone could
receive Jesus in Holy Communion, and develop their
good human qualities, overcoming strong emotions and
bad habits that may cause them to behave in opposite
ways?
+ 17min
The students in pairs, to create two Acrostic poems for
either
1. Kindness
2. Compassion
3. Honesty
4. Courage
One how Jesus lived his life and displayed these features
and one how the student’s lives their lives showing these
qualities.
Assign words to groups.
Groups to write in books
Magazines for picture cut outs
Assign four students to look through the classroom scrap
pile of magazines to find pictures of people showing
kindness, compassion, honesty and Courage. These
+ 35 mins pictures will be used on the class pomes displays

Once complete we will have a group discussion and create

a class poem for each word including both Jesus ways and
how students carry the ways of God out.
+ 40Mins
Use the IWB to display the poems as they are discussed
and agreed upon by the students.

Next lesson we will produce the wall are for the poems
Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
Why do we take Communion?
How is gods message carried on in us when we take communion?
What are the four types of goodness and can you give an example of
each?

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

One person to collect books.

Class to get ready for lunch, pack away book and journals.
Grab hats from their boxes.
If you have a birthday in the start of the year you can go
first……. And second half of the year can go now.

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

assessed?)

Take anecdotal notes while answering questions, Have the children

explain in their own words what the four type of goodness are and how
we are expected to deliver on them. How does taking communion help
Catholics keep this promise?
Collect work at end of lesson to mark.

Resource 1

Name_____________________

How Holy Communion helps and strengthens me!!

• Receiving Jesus in Holy Communion strengthens people to
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• I can live a good life by?

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• Receiving the Holy Communinion reminds me about

__________________________________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________ and helps me to
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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• The phrase “do this in memory of me” makes me feel… and means to me.
__________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________
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• How different would the world be if everyone could receive Jesus in Holy
Communion, and develop their good human qualities, overcoming strong emotions
and bad habits that may cause them to behave in opposite ways?
_________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
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