Session 4: Lesson Plan
- 1. Religious Education - Direct Task Session: 3 Date 11.11.2014 Time 2 Hour Class Group 4 Curriculum area Religious Education Risk Assessment/Health & Safety issues Using string - used for choking or cutting off blood circulation. Learning objectives: • To be able to reflect on people who are special to us. Description of Main Activity Focus: Based on Hinduism, children will create bracelets, sweets and presents for a person who is special to them. They will reflect on why they are special to them with links to the Hindu festival Raksha Bandhan (celebrates brotherhood and love). Action points from previous lesson(s): Children have already started studying Hinduism in class, looking at other festivals, rights of passage, place of worship and the gods. Resources: • PowerPoint. • Cello tape. • Different colours of string. • Sweet making ingredients. • Teaching assistant. • Candle. Differentiation: • Using a number of strings for the bracelet. • Open questions - deepens the children's thinking, higher ability may give more expanded answers.
- 2. Pace/Time Structure of the lesson Your role 10 Minutes The topic of today is introduced - Raksha Bandhan (celebrates brotherhood and love). A video clip of explaining what happens within the religion is shown. After watching, children Think, Pair, Share about what it happening and why it happens. The ideas are shared with the class and reinforced with the teacher's conformation. Play the clip. Lead discussions. Using PowerPoint reinforce the factual side of the festival. 10 Minutes Discuss is made about people who are special to us and people we protect us and who we wish to protect. Discussion about how this may link to the principles of the Hindu festival of Raksha Bandhan. Use open-ended questions to get children to develop their thinking e.g. "why do people protect us?". 75 Minutes In tables there are different activities to do one table; making a present, bracelet, and sweet. Children are split into three groups. The overall task is explained to the class - They will make a bracelet, sweets and candle (present) for someone how is special to them. This will then be taken home to give to their person. Whilst making their presents children should be thinking about their special person/people. Each group will go to a certain table with a TA how is making a certain thing. After about 20 minutes each group swap tables to make the next thing. Explain the activities. Be on the table which are making the bracelets. May need to demonstrate to children how to make plaits. Get children to consider the colours they are using, does it represent the person. Question children about who they are choosing to give their gifts to. Getting them to explain why they are choosing them, Q: If you could give it to more than one person who would they be? Q: What do you think is the importance of receiving this gift? Q: How would it make you feel? 10 Minutes Packing away Getting children to pack away. Ensuring the class is clean and tidy. 10 Minutes At the end children discuss who they have made it for, taking the pack of three home. Children come sit on the carpet with their gifts and thinking individually children have a final think about who they are giving the gifts to and why. (children are being reflective) Some children can share with the whole class. Gathering the children to sit on their tables. Get the children to think deeply about their gifts. Allow children to share their ideas. Assessment opportunities • Can children can make links to the religion aspects of love and protection to their own experience Success Criteria • Can children make the 'thing' and explain who they would give it to and why.