SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Helped by the Word Salvation topic: Bible Human person Topic:
Using inner strength for good
Year Level: Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
This is the 7th lesson that students are engaging in
B1 Jesus Showed himself to be saviour
with this unit.
In previous lessons, students have been wondering
Learning Point(s): about their inner strength and how they can use it for
good. They have recognised and identified that inner
B1.1 Express ways that Jesus showed himself to be strength develops over time and from the soul, which
Saviour. was created within us by God.
They have also explored how God has the power
over sin to turn everything into good.
Students have engaged in Godly Play sessions in
previous religion lessons.

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
Students think relationships Students reflect on Students reflect Students reflect
about the choices Jesus’ inner on Jesus’ ability on Jesus’ ability
Jesus made in strength and how to forgive sins of to reach out and
his life. he used it for others. selflessly help
good. others.
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
Students competence creative behaviour Social understanding
listen to a thinking Students reflect competence
Students express on the right ways Students work
scripture their responses
that people individually and
creatively through
passage and illustrations and think should treat each in small groups.
write critically about their other, like Jesus
responses. did.
answers.
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:

1. Illustrate an example of how Jesus showed he was our Saviour on a poster.

2. Write on a sticky note a way that God saves us as his children.

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

Teacher Witness – Give an example of sinning in everyday life and explain
how God forgives through his grace. Student with hearing impairment will be seated close to the teacher
Sin weakens our relationship with God, as well as our inner strength. God’s during Godly Play session.
power is greater than sin, and Jesus showed this to us by forgiving sins.
Jesus’ name means ‘god saves’, for this reason. Student with intellectual disability will create their poster with the
assistance of the Education Assistant.
Materials to be prepared before the lesson:
- Godly Play Kit ready
- Godly Play script ready
- Poster paper ready
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the
1. Have all students sitting in semi-circle on the mat.
9:00am segment where they will
- Jesus told us about the arrival of Kingdom of God. He was a model of
be introduced.
how we can all do good by forgiving people. Jesus showed us how
God’s power and good is greater than sin.
2. State the purpose of the lesson to students:
- Today we’re going to explore one of the stories in the Bible
where Jesus showed us he was our Saviour. Afterwards, we are
going to create some posters that will show people what we
know about God and how God saves everyone.

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

Godly Play kit in box.
9:05am 1. Engage in godly play on Mark 2:1-12 (follow script attached).
Godly Play script
9:15am 2. Engage in a think, pair, share with the class on the following
questions:
- How did Jesus use his inner strength to do good?
He saw that someone was in need
He helped someone who needed help
He cared for people
- How did Jesus show us he was our Saviour?
He forgave sins
He healed the paralysed man
He accepted everyone
He acted like God

3. Reiterate to students that God’s love and grace saves us as humans.

9:20am 4. Explain the activity for students to complete:

- Create a poster that includes the words ‘God Saves’ and
illustrate a picture of Jesus showing us he was our Saviour.
Some examples might include:
- Jesus healing the paralysed man
- Jesus on the cross
Poster paper
- Jesus teaching his followers
5. Instruct students to collect poster paper, go back to their desks and
complete the activity with their own textas and pencils.
6. Walk around and assist students as needed.
7. As students are working, place a sticky note on each student’s desk
and write the following question on the board:
How does God save us?
9:35am Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
1. Gain students attention.
2. Review the main message of the lesson: God’s power is greater than
sin, and Jesus showed this to us when he was on Earth.
3. Draw student’s attention to the question on the board. Ask them to
write their name and a short answer to the question on their sticky
note.
4. Students stick their response to the whiteboard underneath the
question.
9:45am
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

1. Students can place their poster at the front of the room for collection
by teacher.
2. Students go back to their desks to start literacy block.

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

Assessment Strategy: Checklist

Objective 1 Objective 2
Illustrate an example of Write on a sticky note a
how Jesus showed he way that God saves us
was our Saviour on a his children.
poster.

Student A
Student B
Student C

**= Highly demonstrated

*= Demonstrated
/ = Beginning to demonstrate
x = Not demonstrated
 JESUS HEALS A PARALYTIC
(based on Mark 2:1-12)

YOU WILL NEED

- Bible
- Beige underlay
- ‘house’ with a roof that can be taken off
- Set of characters: Jesus, Scribes, 4 friends, paralytic, other crowd members
- Felt mat for paralytic

Children are seated in a semi-circle ready to listen to the story. When children are settled, collect the Godly Play kit and
the Bible. Place these beside you.
Place Bible in front of you with your hand on it.
This story comes from our special book we call the Bible.
The Bible contains many stories of the amazing things Jesus did while he was on Earth. Jesus showed us that he was
our Saviour by performing miraculous deeds. This is a story of Jesus showing his goodness by healing a paralysed
man.
Place the underlay in the middle of the space.
Place the house on top of the underlay. Place hand on the house.
This is a house. This is where Jesus stayed when he visited the village of Capernaum.
Place Jesus inside the house.
Crowds of people were following Jesus to listen to him speak about the Kingdom of God.
Start adding people into the house, one by one.
Place scribes in the house.
Even scribes were listening to Jesus speak.
There were so many people listening to Jesus, that there was no room into the house, not even through the door.
Start bringing in the four believers.
Four friends tried to come to Jesus, bringing with them a paralysed man.
Lay down the mat and then the paralysed man, next to the four men. Lift paralysed man on mat onto the roof.
The friends desperately wanted to bring the paralysed man to Jesus, but they could not get through the large crowd.
They had seen and heard about Jesus doing so many wonderful things that they thought that if they could get their
friend to Jesus, maybe he could do something wonderful for their friend.
Start taking the roof off and lower the man on mat down in front of Jesus.
So, they carried him up onto the roof, and dug through the roof, and lowered their friend down to be in front of
Jesus.
When Jesus saw the faith of the four friends, he looked at the paralysed man and said, “son, your sins are forgiven”.
Point at the scribes.
Now the scribes were sitting there, thinking to themselves, “why does this fellow say these things? Only God can
forgive sins.”

Point at Jesus.
Jesus knew what the scribes were thinking. He said to the crowd, “which is easier to say? Your sins are forgiven, or
stand up, take your mat and walk? So you may know that I have authority on Earth to forgive sins…”
Turn Jesus to look at paralysed man.
Jesus then said to the paralysed man, “stand up, take your mat and go home!”
Lift the paralysed man upright and walk him out of the house.
At once, the paralysed man stood up.
Roll up the paralysed man’s mat.
He rolled up his mat.
Start walking the paralysed man out of the house.
And he did just what Jesus said, he walked out of the house in front of the amazed crowd.
Move some of the crowd up and down in excitement.
The crowd could not believe what they saw, they praised God saying, “We have never seen anything like this!”

 I wonder why the crowd were praising God for what Jesus did.
 I wonder what they were doing or saying that was praising God.
 I wonder how the crowd feels about Jesus after seeing him do such an amazing thing.
 I wonder how the paralysed man feels now that he can finally stand and walk.
 I wonder what the scribes are feeling about what has just happened.
 I wonder who they think Jesus might be.
 I wonder where you might be in this story.

Carefully pack away the materials into the box.