SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Guided Through Salvation topic: Prayer Human person Topic: Choice to do
Prayer Good

Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith

Year Level: 6 situations/previous lessons/Units)
Key Understanding:
Jesus gave his followers prayer to help them do good Students have previously looked at units of work
such as Christian Conscience (Penance) in year
three, Relationship Restored (Penance) in Year five
Learning Point(s): and Come Be Reconciled (Penance) in year six all
B2.1: interprets how the world would be different if specifically looking at the meaning of sin
everyone prayed and was helped by Jesus to do good
Students are currently exploring the unit of work,
Guided Through Prayer, and have completed one
lesson in regards to exploring the Ten
Commandments and how they guide us to make
good moral choices

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:

 Identify why prayer is important

 Compare what life would be like with and without prayer by role playing
 Pray to God and ask for help to make good choices

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

(include Teacher Witness)
• Learning difficulty
 Prepare video and ensure it has loaded before o Give this student a specific role that avoids
the lesson them being required to do any writing
 Move furniture before the lesson to avoid
unnecessary wasting of time
• ADHD
o Ensure that group with student with ADHD
works inside the classroom away from windows
and other distractions
o Give frequent reminders about time
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
10  Call students down to the mat and review the topic from the last where they will be introduced.
mins lesson
 “Today we are going to continue our learning about making good
choices.”
 “Can someone remind me what we looked at last lesson?”
(Ten Commandments and how they guide us to make good choices)
 Introduce todays topic
 “Today we are going to look at prayer and how prayer can help
us to make good choices.”
 Ask students to discuss what prayer is and why they think it is
important
 “Talk to the person next to you and tell them what prayer is and
why you think it is important.”
 Students to discuss question with partner
 Regain student’s attention using countdown method
 Ask students to share their responses
 “Would someone like to share what they discussed with their
partner?”
 Discuss responses
 Play YouTube video about prayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrdlXOk_QdQ YouTube video: God’s Story:
Prayer
 Discuss the ideas in the video https://www.youtube.com/watc
 “Prayer is important because it was something that Jesus did, h?v=ZrdlXOk_QdQ
and we need to try and be like Jesus. We prayer so we can talk to
God, just like we talk to our parents or caregivers. When we pray,
we talked to God about things going on in our life, things we are
struggling with, things we are thankful for and things we need to
say sorry for. Through prayer, we can ask God to help us make
good decisions by reminding us to love the people around us.
When we don’t pray to God, we can sometimes forget that we
should be making good decisions and we can forget to be loving to
others.”

Lesson Steps:

5 mins  Ask students to brainstorm what life would look like if we pray to
God to help us make good choices, and if we do not pray to God
to help us make good choices

 “Through prayer, we can ask God to help us make good

decisions by reminding us to love the people around us.”
 “Have a think about what you think would happen if we did not
pray to God to help us make good choices?”

 Give students 30-60 seconds to think of an answer Whiteboard and marker

 Ask students to share
 Write student’s responses on the whiteboard

 “Now I would like you to have a think about what you think would
happen if we did pray to God to help us make good choices?”
  Give students 30-60 seconds to think of an answer
 Ask students to share
 Write student’s responses on the whiteboard
 Explain main activity

 “I am going to split you into two groups.”

 “in your groups, you are going to use on of the examples we
came up, and role play what that might look like.”
 “Group one, you are going to role play what could happen if we
did pray to God to help us make good choices, and group two, you
are going to role play what could happen if we did not pray to God
to help us make good choices.”

 Explain expectations of the activity

 “I want to see everyone in your group participating.”
 “You can choose from any of the examples we came up with on
the board
 “Your role play needs to be at least 5 minutes long but no longer
than 10 minutes.

 Ask students if they have any questions

 Number students either one or two
 Gather students together in their groups and allocate groups and
10 certain space in the classroom (or outside) to plan and rehearse
mins  While students are doing this, float between the groups and ask
students to explain their plan – help students if assistance is
required
 Allow students approximately 10 minutes to prepare

15  Regain student’s attention using countdown method

mins  Ask students to come back and sit on the mat
 Call group one to the front to present their role play
 Call group two to the front to present their role play
 Review the lesson objectives with students

 “So what would happen if we did pray to God to help us make

good choices?”
 “And what would happen if we did not pray to God to help us
make good choices?”

Lesson Closure:
5 mins  Ask students to get in a circle Relaxation mediation music
 Play some relaxing mediation music https://www.youtube.com/watc
 Ask students to pray to God that he would be able to help them h?v=6xDyPcJrl0c
to make good choices

 “During this time, I would like you to pray quietly to God, asking
him to help you make good moral choices and to remind you to love
one another.”
 “Reflect on a time recently when you did not make a good
choice, and ask God to forgive you and help you to do better next
time.”

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

 Students will need to reset the classroom and put any furniture
back before going out for lunch.
Assessment:
 Students identified a practical example of what life could be like if
we did not pray to God or if we did pray to God, asking him to
help us make good choices
 Students effectively contributed to class discussion about prayer