SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

RE LESSON PLAN
Pre-Primary/
Primary

LESSON ORGANISATION
Unit of work: Salvation topic: Human person Topic:
Growing and Changing Eucharist People grow and change.
Year Level: One Students’ Prior Knowledge: (include faith
situations/previous lessons/Units)
In the previous year the students were taught the
Key Understanding: Thanking God for our Feelings unit of work under the
C1 During the Eucharist (Mass) the Church remembers Eucharist salvation topic.
the special meal that Jesus celebrated with his friends.
In this unit the students learnt about feelings, how
people show them and how they can tell others how
Learning Point(s):
they are feeling. The students also recognise that we
C1.1 Represents the special meal Jesus celebrated with
should give thanks to God for giving us feelings as
his friends.
God loves each and every one of us.
C1.2 Illustrates items, furnishings and vessels people
would see during a celebration of the Eucharist.

Early Years Learning Framework Lesson Connection:

Outcomes one, four and five.
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:
 Match the images of items people would see at a Eucharist to the correct name tags.

 Create a chalice using a wide variety of materials and display during the shared meal.

 Participate and contribute to a classroom shared meal for lunch.

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

(include Teacher Witness)
-Have the book Sophie Wonders about the Eucharist
written by Debby Bradley ready to read during the lesson.
-Have a picture of a lectern, altar, a chalice, a ciborium,
bread/host and wine to use during the lesson
demonstration.
-Have the cut and paste activity sheet images and name
tags of the Eucharist items printed and ready to use.
-Make scissors, glue, A3 paper, coloured and lead
pencils, pop sticks, string, feathers, ribbon and other
collage trolley items available to the students during
activity time.
-Gather each students food that they have bought in from
home to share for the classroom meal and have it
Choose One from:
• Gifted: The student can paint a picture of one
of the special items that we see in the
Eucharist celebration and join the class
during the shared meal time.
Choose One from:
• Intellectual disability: The student can choose
one special item that we see at a Eucharist
celebration to make instead of a chalice.
They must then explain to the teacher or
teacher’s assistant why the item is so
important to have at the Eucharist
celebration.
prepared for the meal.
-Have the prayer A Holy Meal printed and ready to use
during the classroom shared meal.
-Have the assessment checklist printed out and ready to
use.
LESSON DELIVERY attach worksheets, examples, marking keys, etc. as relevant
Resources/References
Time Motivation and Introduction:
Align these with the segment
10 The teacher will capture the attention of the students by saying “Down to where they will be introduced.
mins the carpet one, two, three. Down to the carpet eyes on me”. Once all
students are seated on the carpet in front of the teacher, she will Pictures of a lectern, altar, a
introduce the students to the different items that they would see at a chalice, a ciborium, bread/host
Eucharist/Mass. The teacher will do this by explaining to the students and wine.
what the items are and show them an image of each item.
-“When we go to a Eucharist or mass, we see the priest use a lot of
different items. These items are important to have when we are
celebrating the Eucharist, or a mass and we see them all the time.”
-“The first item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is a lectern. The
priest stands behind this when he is reading from the bible and telling us
all about Jesus.”
-“The second item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is an altar. It is
a long table that the priest stands behind when he is blessing and
preparing the bread and the wine to share with all of us in the church.”
-“The third item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is a chalice and
this is used to hold the blood of Jesus Christ.”
-“The fourth item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is a ciborium and
this is used to hold the body of Jesus Christ.”
-“The fifth item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is the bread or it
can also be called the host and we all know that this is the body of Jesus
Christ which is given up for us.”
-“The last item that we see at a Eucharist celebration is the wine and we
also all know that this is the blood of Jesus Christ that is given up for us.”

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

5 mins When the teacher has finished explaining and showing what each item is
to the students, she will go on to read the story Sophie Wonders about Book: Sophie Wonders about
the Eucharist written by Debby Bradley. She will ask the students to pay the Eucharist written by Debby
close attention to the story as they might see some of these special items Bradley.
appear in the story.

After reading the story to the students the teacher will ask the students
the following wonder questions:
-“I wonder if you can remember what the six special items are that we
see at a Eucharist celebration?”
-“I wonder why these items are important to use in a mass?”
-“I wonder how Jesus set his table when he had his last supper with his
friends the apostles?”

The teacher will then explain to the students that they have two activities
to complete during the lesson. The first activity is that each student will
be given an activity sheet with pictures of the six items that were Cut and paste activity sheets,
discussed in the lesson and the names of these items will be muddled up scissors, glue, A3 paper,
beneath the images. The students must cut out and glue down the coloured and lead pencils, pop
picture to its matching name tag on a separate A3 paper, and once they sticks, string, feathers, ribbon
have matched all images then they are able to colour in the images. The and collage trolley.
second activity requires the students to draw a picture of a chalice. The
students will then cut it out and decorate the chalice with the available
materials on the collage trolley.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

To close the lesson the teacher will ask the students to clean up their
desks and hand in their completed cut and paste image activity sheets to
her. Then she will ask the students to be seated in a circle on the carpet
and for each student to bring their completed chalice that they had made
 during the lesson. In the centre of the circle will be all of the food items Food that each student bought
that each student had brought in from home to share with the rest of the in to share, A Holy Meal
class during the shared meal. Before beginning the shared meal, the prayer, chalice creations.
teacher will say the prayer A Holy Meal, with the students to bless the
meal they are about to share as Jesus did at his last supper.

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

After the shared classroom meal has ended the students will be asked to
hand in their chalices to the teacher which she will display around the
classroom. The students must then work together to clear the carpet of
the foods shared during the meal. Once this is complete the teacher will
dismiss each student by faction colour to grab their hat from their pigeon
hole and line up quietly at the door ready to be dismissed for lunch.

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

assessed?)
To assess whether or not the lesson objectives were met, the teacher will
use each students’ completed cut and paste activity sheets. This activity
sheet will assist the teacher in assessing objective one of the lesson. The Checklist.
teacher will assess the achievement of this objective by seeing whether
or not the student could correctly match the image to the name tag. This
information will be recorded on a checklist.

To assess objective two, the teacher will collect all the completed chalice
creations. She will assess them by seeing if the student could correctly
draw the chalice. The third objective will be assessed by the teacher
observing the student’s interactions with each other during the shared
meal. The teacher will observe whether or not the students are respectful
and understand how important this event is and that they are using the
meal time as a reflection on how they believe the last supper was
conducted by Jesus.

Reference:
Debby Bradley. (2013). Sophie wonders about the eucharist. (n.p.): Intl Development Inst.

Religious Education Archdiocese of Perth. (2016). Growing and changing – eucharist year 1.
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‘A Holy Meal’ Prayer:

(to the traditional tune of ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’)

Jesus had a holy meal, holy meal, holy meal.
Jesus had a holy meal and his friends came too.
He ate with twelve of his friends, of his friends, of
his friends Lesson Three Assessment Checklist:
He ate with twelve of his friends
at this holy meal. We remember this holy meal, Key:
holy meal, holy meal. E: Excellent
We remember this holy meal G: Good
When we celebrate Mass. S: Satisfactory
L: Limited

Objective Objective Objective Comments/Anecdotal

One: Match Two: Create a Three: Notes:
the images of chalice using a Participate and
items people wide variety of contribute to a
 would see at a materials and classroom
Eucharist to display during shared meal for
the correct the shared lunch.
name tags. meal.
Students Names:
Lectern Altar Chalice Ciborium Wine/Blood
Bread/Body