LutheranPrimary School Wagga Wagga
Year Level: One / Stage: 1Key Learning Area: CHRISTIAN STUDIES
Topic/Unit of work:What is God like?
STRAND:CHRISTIAN BELIEFS / Term: 4
Year: 2009
Outcomes & Indicators
KEY IDEA 1: Christians believe God Is one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Band A)
CB 2.1: Students discuss and describe Christian beliefs about God and the blessings God gives people.
Scope Statements:
Christians believe that God is eternal, ever-present, transcendent and personal. He is creator and sustainer, giving the world to his people to enjoy. His love is revealed in the gifts of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Bible. He is a God who blesses richly from the bounty of his love, grace and mercy!
Students know:
- Christian beliefs about God:
- eternal
- everywhere
- good and loving
- creator
- God blesses people with gifts
- God is revealed through scripture
- Retell biblical stories that focus on different aspects of God’s nature
- Suggest different ways people can respond to God’s gifts.
- Describe ways God helped people such as Moses and David
What is God like?
Assessment:
- Dramatise or draw a picture of someone God helped, identifying an aspect of God’s nature.
- Complete a simple table: what the stories reveal about God’s nature, and people’s response
LutheranPrimary School Wagga Wagga
Term Overview
Year Level: One / Stage: 1Key Learning Area: CHRISTIAN STUDIES
Topic/Unit of work:What is God like?
STRAND: CHRISTIAN BELIEFS / Term: 4
Year: 2009
Week / Focus
1 / Tuning in
2 / David and Goliath
3 / Moses and God’s people
4 / God Eternal
5 / Intro to Nativity: A New King & Mary and the Angel
6 / A Very Special Baby
7 / Nativity: Shepherds/Nativity: Wise Men
8 / Complete Nativity Scene
LutheranPrimary School Wagga Wagga
Year Level: One / Stage: 1Key Learning Area: CHRISTIAN STUDIES
Topic/Unit of work:What is God like?
STRAND: CHRISTIAN BELIEFS / Term: 4
Year: 2009
Learning Experiences / Resources
Tuning in to the topic:
Invite 2 or 3 responses to the essential question from all of the students, then sort and group them (responses). What would happen if we asked another class? Or some of the teachers? Would they say the same? Or different? Small groups survey other students/staff in the school. Add those responses to the groupings. Talk about what we’ve got. Then: what else can we find out, or check?
Week Two: David and Goliath:
- Read: The Lion First Bible pages 188 - David and the Giant
- View: DVDAwesome Heroes - David and Goliath No. 1
- Discuss what the incident tells us about God’s nature: God uses people that you wouldn’t expect, gives courage and confidence to those who trust in him, cares for his people has a plan for our lives (Describe how David went on to be a great king for God’s people)
- How did David respond to God: Trusted God, was bold and went against all odds because God is a great God and can do great and unusual things! Don’t limit God!
- Start Assessment/written record of Unit: A table with headings:
- Bible account ( draw picture)
- What is God like?
- How do the people respond?.
DVD: Awesome Heroes
DVD: Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity.
Beginning with the Bible : a Class Above, the New Testament
CD: Colin Buchannan’s Album: King of Christmas.
Weeks Three: Moses leads God’s people
- Read: The Lion First Bible pages 110 - The Big Adventure and The Best Way to Live page 120
- View: DVD Awesome Heroes - The Journey: Moses No. 11
- Discuss what the incident tells us about God’s nature: rescued his people from oppression, cares for his people by providing them with food and water, provides a leader for them, gave Moses perseverance, courage and endurance, gave his people guidelines to live by.
- How did Moses and the peoplerespond to God: Trusted God, obeyed God, believed in God and lived as he wanted.
- Complete Assessment/written record of Unit for this account.
WeeksFour:God Eternal
- Read: The Lion First Bible pages 10ff - How the world began and pages 476ff – A New World
- Discuss what the stories tell us about God’s nature: He’s the beginning and the end. Always was, always will be! He was there before the beginning of the world and will be there after the world is wrapped up. He created the world and is therefore in charge of it.
- How can peoplerespond to God: Trust God, obey God, for their lives and the future! Get to know him and do what he says. Don’t be discouraged, have hope in the future.
- Complete Assessment/written record of Unit for this account.
Week Five:Isaiah foretells Jesus birth
- Story: The Lion First Bible page281A New King and page 284 Mary and the Angel
- DVD: Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity.
- Questions from: Beginning with the Bible pages 10-11
- Activities:
- Discuss what makes Jesus birth so special
- Make angels in Visual Arts
Week Six: Jesus’ Birth
- Story: The Lion First Bible page 292 The Very Special Baby
- DVD: Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity.
- Questions from: Beginning with the Bible pages 12-13
- Activities:
- Discuss what happened and the role of the shepherds
- Start making Nativity Scene to be completed over coming weeks: Add manger, Mary & Joseph.
Week Seven: Shepherds/Wise Men
- Story: The Lion First Bible page 296The Very Special Baby(shepherds)
- DVD: Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity.
- Questions from: Beginning with the Bible pages 14-15
- Activities:
- What did the angels say to the shepherds?
- Add the shepherds to the Nativity scene
- Story: The Lion First Bible page 302 Presents for Christmas
- Video: Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible: The Nativity.
- Questions From: Beginning with the Bible pages:17-18
- Activities :
- Make/Draw Wise Men figures/pictures and the star and add to Nativity scene.
Week Eight: Nativity Scene
- Complete the Nativity scene and sing songs from Colin Buchannan’s Album: King of Christmas.
Students share their Nativity scenes and the completed tables with another class, or old folk, or their parents invited in.
And tell them all about what they discovered about God.
Evaluation: