SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary
LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Loved and Forgiven Salvation topic: Penance Human person Topic: Power of
Love
Year Level: Year 4 Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding: Jesus forgives sins through the This is the first lesson directed at the element of sin.
Sacrament of Penance
Students are aware of what is a good and bad action
but are yet to formally call a wrong action a sin in this
year.
Learning Point(s):
B2.1: Records the meaning of sin. Students, in the previous lesson, learnt about Jesus’
forgiveness to wrong doings.
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:
• Students will identify that a sin can be a thought or action.
• Students will classify that a sin can be accidental or purposeful and be able to determine between the two.
Teacher’s Prior Preparation/Organisation: Provision for students at educational risk:
(include Teacher Witness)
Gifted Student:
Organise butcher’s paper and colourful markers for individual activity Students who are gifted should be asked to provide a real-life
example of an accidental sin and purposeful sin that they have
witnessed in their life.
Physical Disability Student:
Student will be placed into a group of students who are able to
write their opinions down, place at the front of the classroom where
the teacher is able to make sure the inclusion of the student.
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
where they will be introduced.
• Place two posters at each end of the classroom one labelled
GOOD and the other BAD
5 mins • Have scenarios (thoughts or actions) that you are able to give to
the students (example: picking up litter as you walk by OR
Taking someone’s pencil without looking)
• Allow students to pick which end they think is most correct or if
they are neutral allow them to stand in the middle
• If they feel up to sharing allow them to for a class discussion
Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key Questions):
CLASS DISCUSSION ACTIVITY
• Invite students to sit in a circle on the mat with the teacher joining
them.
• Invite students to share their understanding of a sin, what they
7 mins
think it might be as a definition, action or thought.
• With the help of a visual aid display the three conditions of a sin,
while talking through them with a minor explanation if the
students struggle to understand
1. the thought, word or action must actually be against the
law of God (not something a person may simply ‘feel’ to be
wrong or guilty about)
2. the person must know at the time that the thought, word
or action is against the law of God (not have learned this
later)
3. the thought, word or action must have been on purpose
(or deliberate) – not an accident or unintentional.
After explaining the three conditions of a sin allow students to sit in
silence and encourage them to think and wonder
What is a ‘sin’? How does a person know if a word, thought or action is a
sin? What important questions does a person need to ask themselves to
work out if they have sinned? What do we mean by ‘God’s Law’?
INDIVIDUAL STUDENT ACTIVITY
• Send students back to their tables with the group leader
collecting the materials Butchers Paper and Markers-
10 black to write and two altering
mins • Instruct to students that they should brainstorm in their groups
how people can do wrong (4 mins) colours to classify.
• Get students to classify those actions/ thoughts/ feelings into two
categories ACCIDENTAL and PURPOSEFUL
• Share with the class two examples of each
Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)
Get students to do starting activity, with some of the same scenarios and
3 mins getting them to explain how they think it is or isn’t a sin using the
conditions and classifying if it is accidental or purposeful.
Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)
Hand up the 3 conditions of a sin.
Assessment: (Were the lesson objectives met? How will they be
assessed?)
Students will have participated in class discussion and the warm up
activity, and in the group activity students will have correctly identified the
two differing classifications of sins.
