LESSON PLAN ONE

STEP A - Wondering at the Creator of Families

Year Level: Year 4 Time: 9:00am- 9:40am Date: 20/10/2017

Key Understanding Learning Point Salvation Topic

A1.1 Explores the ways in which

A1 Wondering at Families Prayer
people can contribute to family life.

Catholic Teaching Focus for this lesson

In creating man and woman, God instituted the human family and endowed it with its fundamental constitution.
Catechism 2203

Students come from a variety of family backgrounds.

The more people think about how members in families share, use their gifts to help each other, cooperate, keep
family rules and join in family celebrations.

The purpose of this lesson is to assist the development of students religious awareness. It aims to help them
understand the religious meaning of significant experiences such as family.

Students will develop an understanding that families are all different and the importance of belonging to a family.

They will consolidate their understanding of family expectations and cooperation by comparing it to their significant
experiences with those of Jesus.

Aspects of the Human Person

The importance of belonging and cooperating in a family and contributing in specific ways.

Prior Knowledge

This is the introductory lesson for this RE Unit.

The students were introduced to the concept of family in Religious Education in Year Two.

In Year Two, the students explored how each person belongs to a family.
Family members:
share together (e.g. surnames, homes, food, pets, etc.)
provide for each others needs (e.g. health, love, discovering and learning, development of personal gifts, etc.)
cooperate together (e.g. sharing chores and work, helping with needs, encouraging, forgiving, etc.).

Spiritual Capabilities-
Justice
To build respectful, loving
Prudence and giving relationships Fortitude Temperance
within the family (Piggybook
by Anthony Browne).
Religious Capabilities-
Charity
To use your gift in the family to
Faith Hope meet family expectations, be
forgiving and generous of human
spirit.
General Capabilities-
Literacy
Ethical
Responding to Critical and
behaviour
questions creative
Show
verbally and thinking
respect and Personal
written. Plan ICT Think critically Intercultural
Numeracy acceptance and Social
and create a competence about understanding
for all family competence
picture book Use of Padlet questions.
backgrounds
with captions on an Ipad Create a
and
and images. storyboard.
situations.
Write a prayer.
Teachers Prior Preparation/Organisation Catering for Learner Diversity

- Students asked to bring in a photo of their family

- Class prayer poster on the wall - Teacher will be mindful of students in the
- Collage of families class that have a complicated family life.
- A2 cardboard poster for students to stick their family They will insure not to single out the child.
photos on
- Students will be put into pre-determined
- Blue tac
groups of mixed abilities.
- Whiteboard Marker - Teacher will monitor students responses to
- Anecdotal record the questions to check understanding.
- Piggybook by Anthony Browne - The prayer can be any length to cater for all
- Ipad students.
- Padlet - Students who struggles to write can use an
- Storyboards IPad to complete the prayer.
- Religion books
- Prayer
Cross-curriculum priorities
Aboriginal and
Torres Strait
Asia and Australias engagement with Asia Sustainability
Islander histories
and cultures

Evidence of Learning for Assessment and Reporting

- Anecdotal Record used to record students response to the things they like about their family in group
discussion.
- Padlet used to record students responses to the questions from the story Piggybook by Anthony Browne.
Teacher will use a check list to put a tick or cross next to a students name depending on whether or not they
correctly responded to the questions.
- Teacher will collect and mark the prayers made by students thanking God for their families and listing the
ways they can contribute to their family life.
- Teacher will use an observational record throughout the lesson to record students observations, questions,
behaviours, understanding and cooperative skills where necessary.
- Collect storyboards at the end of lesson to see the groups progress and to plan further lessons.
Lesson Objectives

1. State at least one point that describes something we like about our families verbally in group discussion.

2. Use a technical device to respond to all three questions on the app Padlet individually.

3. Construct a prayer that thanks God for families and list at least 3 ways to contribute to family life.

Classroom management practices

Integration with other Learning Areas

- Teacher will get students to come down to the

mat and leave the mat in small groups.
English
- Students will be counted in the 1, 2, 3 behaviour
Discuss literary experiences with others, sharing management system if they disobey instructions
responses and expressing a point of view(ACELT1603) or are distracting other students.
Create literary texts that explore students own - Class will be respectful when saying the class
experiences and imagining (ACELT1607) prayer.
Digital Technologies - Pre-determined groups of mixed ability levels.
Use simple visual programming environments that
include a sequence of steps (algorithm) involving
decisions made by the user (branching) (ACTDIP011)
Design and Technologies
Work independently, or collaboratively when required, to
plan, safely create and communicate ideas
and information for solutions.
The Arts
Manipulation of familiar settings to create fictional
settings (ACAMAM058)
Health and Physical Education
Strategies to ensure safety and wellbeing at home and at
school (ACPPS036; ACPPS040)
The positive influence of respect, empathy and the
valuing of differences in relationships (ACPPS037)
Humanities and Social Science
People belong to diverse groups, such as cultural,
religious and/or social groups, and this can
shape identity (ACHASSK093)
The differences between 'rules' and 'laws'
(ACHASSK092)

Timing Steps of the Lesson Resources

9:00am
Introduction:
Students asked to bring in a
photo of their family
- Students will be asked to take out their family photos and
bring them down to the mat to commence the lesson.
 Class prayer poster on the
- The teacher will ask students to join in saying the class wall
prayer.

- Teacher will display a collage

Collage of families

- Families come in all different shapes and sizes, some

children have two parents, some children only have a dad or
a mum, some children have lots of brothers and sisters,
some may not have any, some children may live with their
grandparents or some with foster parents.

- The students will be asked to pick up their family photograph A2 cardboard poster
and one at a time come to the front of the class and stick it Blue tac
onto a cardboard poster.

- Students will experience an opportunity to feel charitable and

accepting of different family dynamics through the viewing of
the collage of family photos in the class.

- When each student has stuck their family photograph onto

the cardboard poster the teacher will chose a student to read
out the text under Jesuss family photo. (God created a
family for his son).

- I wonder what that means?

- Teacher will ask a few students what they think the statement
means (It means Mary and Joseph were chosen by God to
be Jesuss earthly parents).

- Teacher will ask students:

 - What are some of the things we like best about our families
that we are thankful for?

- They will be asked to turn to a partner to discuss the question

for 1 minute.

- Teacher will listen to students discussions and take Anecdotal Record

anecdotal notes to record their responses.

- The students will be asked to put their hand up and give their Whiteboard Marker
answers while the teacher writes their ideas on the board.

9:10am Lesson Body:

Strategies for Learning and Teaching:

- Students will be asked to find a comfortable spot on the mat

where they can see.

- The teacher will explain to students that they will read a book Piggybook by Anthony
called Piggybook by Anthony Browne. Browne

- Teacher will ask students to return to their desk and turn on Ipad
their ipad to a program called Padlet. Padlet

- The students will answer a series of wonder questions that

the teacher has pre-set.

- Teacher is able to see students responses which they can

use to assess their understanding of the book and the
religious concepts.

- Wonder questions:

- I wonder why Mr Piggott and his sons started to help out in

the end.

- I wonder how Mrs Piggott felt when she was the only one
contributing to the family at the start.

- What rules may have been helpful in this family?

- How can you contribute to your family in a loving and giving

way?

- Students will be able to see other students responses to the

questions.

- The teacher will then put students into pre-determined

groups and provide the following instructions.
 - In your groups you are to create a picture book that shows
the contrast between how you contribute to your family and
how Jesus would have contributed to his family. For example
on one page you might draw a picture of yourself vacuuming
your bedroom and on the other page you might draw Jesus
sweeping out the barn.

- Before creating the picture book groups will be given a Storyboards

storyboard that they can use to plan out their ideas.

- They must include a sentence under each picture that states

how the task contributes to the family.

- Students will be given time in the following lessons to

complete their storyboards, create their picture book and
present it to the class.

- The teacher will collect the storyboards after students have

written their names on the back.

9:30am
Lesson Closure:

- Students will be asked to return to their desks and take out

their religion books. Religion books

- Teacher will ask students to write a prayer that thanks God

for their families and list ways they can contribute to family Prayer
life which will be assessed.

- The teacher will read the following prayer to conclude the

lesson.

A Prayer for Family

Heavenly Father, Please shine your light upon my family. Give us

strength to overcome all of the difficulties that we are dealing with
now and protect us against any and all problems we may encounter
in the future. O Lord, please bring us together as we are meant to be.
May the love that binds us only grow stronger as we fulfil the destiny
you have laid out for us.