Download Christianity – God: What does it mean to be inspirational?

Year 3: Who should we follow?
Christianity – God: What does it mean to be inspirational?
Key objectives as questions
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What did you learn in RE
last time?
What do you already know
about Christianity?
What do you already know
about Judaism?
What do you want to
improve in your knowledge
of this religion?
What does inspiration mean?
Who is inspirational?
Key Skills that can be covered
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs ideas and teachings.
I ask questions that have no
universally agreed answers.
I ask questions that have no
universally agreed answers.
I suggest answers, including religious
ones.
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Class question.
I ask questions that have no
universally agreed answers.
I can explain my own ideas and
beliefs about ultimate questions.
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Who is inspirational in
Judaism?
How do we know Abraham
inspired people?
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs, ideas and teachings.
I can show what I know about
religious people and how they
behave.
Possible activities including use of
Computing and Technology
Class brainstorm – use IWB to save.
Children to create own reflections of
previous learning and what they want to
learn about/from Christianity. Can then tick
these off throughout the unit. What
questions can they come up with about
Christianity? What questions can they come
up with about Judaism?
How are we going to compare the two
religions?
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lnm-qW_4
Children come up with ideas about
inspiration. What is inspiration?
Picture cards of inspirational people – in
groups decide the 5 most inspirational. Why
have they chosen them? What have they
done that is inspirational? Share with class.
Cards with acts on – in pairs/groups is the
act inspirational? Why? Share with class.
In groups/pairs come up with a question
about inspiration. Class vote about which
question to debate next lesson.
Warm up – put empty box in middle of
classroom. In groups, come up with as many
uses for the box as possible.
Begin discussion surrounding the question –
teacher facilitating.
Class review – what do we say inspiration
is?
Children think about any stories they might
know about inspirational people in Judaism.
Explore the story of Abraham.
Class discussion – in pairs, then groups, the
feeding back to whole class.
Do you agree with the choices Abraham
Outcomes/Evidence that teaching
has taken place
Class brainstorms saved on IWB, can
be accessed throughout to see learning
and progress.
Children will be able to work in
pairs/groups to ask questions which
have no agreed answer.
Children will be able to explain their
own theories about inspiration.
Children will be able to come up with
their own questions.
Children will be able to accept that
sometimes there isn’t an answer.
Children will be able to suggest
answers, explaining their reasoning.
Children will be able to retell the
story of Abraham.
Children will be able to explain
how/why Abraham was inspirational.
I can explain how shared beliefs
about what is right and wrong affect
people’s behaviour.
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How did Jesus inspire
people?
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs, ideas and
teachings.
I can show what I know about
religious people and how they
behave.
I can explain how shared beliefs
about what is right and wrong
affect people’s behaviour.
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What stories of
inspiration are there
from Judaism?
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs, ideas and
teachings.
I can talk about how my feelings
may be similar to characters in
religious stories.
I can explain the significance of
some religious beliefs, teachings
and events for members of a faith
community.
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How do Jews and
Christians continue to be
inspired today?
I can explain how shared beliefs
about what is right and wrong
affect people’s behaviour.
I can show what I know about
made? How can we tell he inspired people?
Would you have followed Abraham?
Children make notes with their partner, to
be used later.
What stories do they know about Jesus?
How was he inspirational?
Each group explores a different story,
making notes and discussing how Jesus is
inspirational in each story. Feedback to
whole class.
How can we tell that Jesus inspired people?
Do you agree with the choices he made?
Would you have followed Jesus?
Children make notes with their partner, to
be used later.
Children to work in groups looking at other
stories from Judaism – make notes/discuss
what they think of these stories. How
would they act in that situation? Have you
ever felt like that?
Children to think about these questions and
discuss in partners, before class discussion.
Are these stories inspirational? Why? What
are the similarities between these stories
and the stories from Christianity?
Are these stories important? To us? To
anyone? Why/why not?
(Cain & Abel, Naaman & Elisha, David &
Goliath, Joseph in Egypt, Moses, Ruth)
Children infer about how Jews and
Christians continue to be inspired today.
What are their initial thoughts? How can
we find out if they are correct?
Children work in groups to come up with
Children will be able to work in pairs
to show what they know about
Abraham and his story.
Children will be able to talk about
certain aspects of Jesus’ life.
Children will be able to explain how
Jesus inspired people.
Children will be able to work in pairs
to show what they know about
Jesus/his story.
Children will be able to work in
groups to discuss stories of
inspiration from Judaism.
Children will be able to talk about the
stories and their value/impact.
Children will be able to explain their
reasoning.
Children will suggest answers to the
question, using the information they
have gathered.
Children will evaluate interview
religious beliefs, ideas and
teachings.
I can show what I know about
religious people and how they
behave.
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How do Jews and
Christians continue to be
inspired today?
I can explain how shared beliefs
about what is right and wrong
affect people’s behaviour.
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs, ideas and
teachings.
I can show what I know about
religious people and how they
behave.
I can explain how some beliefs
and teachings are shared by
different religions.
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Has anything I’ve learned
inspired me?
Who inspires me?
Has anyone inspired me
to do something new?
Am I inspirational?
I ask questions and suggest
answers about the significant
experiences of others, including
religious believers.
I can explain my own ideas and
beliefs about ultimate questions.
I can recognise and express my
feelings about my own identity.
Some ch. will be able to begin to
link this to learning about
religion.
interview questions for visitors. What do
we want to find out? What kind of
questions do we need to ask?
Peer review – will these questions find out
the information we want. Select
appropriate questions
Using interview questions, children work in
groups to interview different people who
are either Christians or Jews.
(Need to organise local people to come in
and share their faith.)
Children will feedback their findings to
whole class. Children to reflect on what
they have found out.
Are you surprised by what you have
discovered?
questions and feedback to whole
class.
Children will work in groups to ask
questions about the experiences of
religious believers.
Children will understand how beliefs
and experiences may affect people’s
behaviour.
Children will evaluate and reflect
upon their answers and how they
differ or are similar to their initial
thoughts.
In partners, discuss and note down
response to question ‘how do Jews and
Christians continue to be inspired today?’
Children can then use these to help them in
extended write.
Whole class discussion, asking questions.
Who inspires us? Look back to the
beginning of topic – this time think about
people we KNOW.
Are we inspirational? How can we be
inspirational? Inspirational people come in
different shapes and sizes, with different
skills and doing different things.
Children to write one word for each of their
peers about their gifts that could be used to
Children will reflect upon their
learning about inspiration, and how it
impacts upon their life.
Children will work independently to
think about their own identity and
how they can be inspirational.
Children can express their feelings
about their identity.
be inspirational. These will be used to
create wordles for each child.
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What did you learn during
this topic?
What questions are still
unanswered?
How do you feel the topic
went?
I can show what I know about
religious beliefs, ideas and teachings.
I can show what I know about
religious people and how they
behave.
I can explain how some beliefs
and teachings are shared by
different religions.
Children to listen to music and reflect about
themselves. What are they good at? How
can they be inspirational? Children write
letters to their future selves – What makes
me inspirational…
Look at IWB slides from first session. What
have we learned? What have we not found
out?
Children work in their pairs, using the
information they’ve gathered over the
topic, to create short information texts
about inspiration, and how people are
inspired by faith.
Children to present as a group to the class.
Children to evaluate what they have
enjoyed, and what they would change next
time.
Children will reflect on their learning.
Children will work in pairs to write an
information text, using their previous
learning.
Children will evaluate and feedback
their response to the topic.