SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Salvation topic: Human person Topic:
Helped by The Word Bible Using inner strength for good
Year Level: 5 Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
This is the 6th lesson that students are engaging in
A3 Attribute: God can turn everything to good.
with this unit.
In previous lessons, students have been wondering
Learning Point(s): about their inner strength and how they can use it for
A3.1 Celebrates that God can turn everything to good. good. They have recognised and identified that inner
strength develops over time and from the soul, which
was created within us by God.
The Story of Joseph (Genesis chapters 37-45) was
presented to students in the Year 4 Bible unit.
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 are relationships Students are
acknowledging discussing how
how choices can their inner strength
be made that can can be used for
turn poor good.
situations into
good.
General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)
Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
Students are competence creative behaviour Social understanding
writing their thinking competence
answers on Students are Students are
thinking critically working
paper. about their individually and
responses to cooperatively
situations. with peers.

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 at least 3 examples of their own negative experiences in a concertina book.

2. Write at least 3 examples of how God can turn negative experiences into good in a concertina
book.

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

(include Teacher Witness)
- God’s power is so great that that He can bring good out of every • Student with dyslexia can illustrate both components of
human experience. This can sometimes be different to what the task instead of writing.
people hope and expect. Children need to be reminded that God’s
good can take time to see, and that although evil exists, God
• Student with ADHD can record themselves on iPad
wouldn’t allow evil if he didn’t allow good to come from it.
acting out the bad situation they were in and act out how
- Teacher Witness – provide own example of a bad situation and God turned it into good.
how God turned it into good.
Material preparation before lesson:
- Paper ready for students to make concertina book
- Story of Joseph ready on interactive whiteboard
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
9:00am 1. Have students sit on the mat. where they will be introduced.
2. Recap previous lessons and pose questions to the class:
Recently, we have been wondering about our inner strength,
where it comes from and how it helps us to make good choices.
Ask students to think, pair and share these wondering
questions to engage their prior knowledge:
Where does our inner strength come from?
How does our inner strength help us to do good?
Does our inner strength change as we get older?
How is inner strength different from physical strength?
3. State purpose of lesson to students:
- Today we’re going to look at the ways in which God can
change bad situations into good.

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

1. Display the Story of Joseph (Helped by the Word Resource

9:05am Sheet 3, see attachment) on the Interactive Whiteboard. Story of Joseph document on
IWB for all students to read.
2. Read the story aloud to the students.
3. Discuss the passage with the students:
- What happened in this story?
- How did God bring the good out of the evil that was committed
by Joseph and his brothers?

God’s power is greater than sin. This story is just one example of
how God’s power is so great that it can bring the good out of every
situation.

4. Ask students to close their eyes:

Think about a time where something happened to you that was not
good. How did God make the situation better for you?

5. Call on some students to provide answers, examples could

include:
- Once I was feeling upset because my dog died, but God turned
this into good by giving me lots of support from my family and
friends.
- Once I was feeling left out by my friends, but God turned this
into good by giving me the strength to talk to them and work out
the problem.
9:15am
6. Explain the activity for the students to complete:
You are going to make a concertina book that shows how God can turn
bad situations into good. You need to:
- Fold this strip of paper in half, then in half again.
- Open the strip back up and fold it back and forth to make a
concertina.
 - Illustrate a bad situation you have been in on one side of the
paper.
- On the back of the illustration, write ‘God turned this into good
by…’ and explain how God made this situation better. Paper for students to use
- Fill out the rest of the concertina with 2 more illustrations and
explanations.
7. Instruct students to go back to their desks, collecting a strip of
paper for them to use.
8. Walk around the room and observe students’ progress.

9:35am Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

1. Gain students attention.

2. Ask students to turn to the person next to them and share an
example of a situation they illustrated and how God turned it to
good.
3. Call on some students and have them share what their partner
said.
4. Re-emphasise how God is greater than all evil and he shows
us the good that can come from our inner strength to change
situations.

9:40am Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

1. Students need to put their concertina book into their religion

folder, pack away their other materials and sit back at their
desks.

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

assessed?)

Assessment Strategy: Checklist

Objective 1 Objective 2
Illustrate at least 3 Write at least 3
examples of negative examples of how God
experiences in a can turn negative
concertina book. experiences into
good in a concertina
book.

Student A
Student B
Student C

**= Highly demonstrated

*= Demonstrated
/ = Beginning to demonstrate
x = Not demonstrated