Year 5 Term 1 RESOURCES
UNIT - I wonder about Jesus’ mission and ministry.
  • Students will need their Bible for this Unit.
  • Suggested Bibles Breakthrough BibleNew Revised Standard Version
  • Brainstorm activities
  • Classroom data chart
  • Wonderings
  • Sentence strips
  • Good News Bible App for IPad is a useful resource.
  • Bible
  • Books of the New Testament written on separate cards for sorting
  • Bible Skills Activity
  • Bible Tools BCE Module p 19-20
  • Resource No 3Chapter Verse Activity
  • Bible Tools Activity p21
  • An Outline of Jesus for the noticeboard and to be added to as the Unit progresses
  • Google Images
  • Bible Atlas, Bible Dictionary, Biblical Commentaries, Concordance, Biblical Encyclopaedia
  • “Going for Oysters” by Jeanie Adams
  • Mt 5:1-10
  • Mt 25:1-46
  • Scripture retell
  • Resource: Daily Life at the Time of Jesus by Miriam Feinberg Vamosh
  • Lk 10: 38–42 (women)
  • Mt 20: 29–34 (healing of the blind)
  • Mk 10: 46–52, Lk 18: 35–43 (the blind beggar)
  • Lk 19: 1–10 (Zacchaeus the tax collector
  • Lk 10: 25–37 (the Good Samaritan)
  • Frayer Concept strategy
  • A-Z Teaching Strategies
  • Resource No 5.
  • Scripture: Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts BCE Module p 27-28
  • Blind Bartimaeus
  • Godly Play – Young Children and Worship p 18
  • Godly Play Following Jesus p 69
  • Concept web
  • Role –play
  • Luke 4:38-40, Jesus Heals many people
  • Luke 5:17-26, Jesus heals a paralysed man
  • Luke 7:1-10, Jesus heals a Roman Officer’s Servant
  • Retrieval chart
  • Role play and discussion
  • Venn Diagram
  • Character Sketch

Year 5 Term 2 RESOURCES
UNIT -I wonder if I can use different strategies to meditate.
  • Children can make their own prayer journals. Ideas can be found on the Prayer Journal Pinterest page
  • Think Pair Share
  • Prayer Journal
  • A selection of Children’s literature form the School Library.
  • Collate their thoughts by using a concept map
  • SeeTemplates:
  • Huddle strategy
  • In teaching strategies in the GN4L resource on
  • Using audio visual materials, cameras, drawing equipment, interview questions etc…
  • Picture display board.
  • Be Still – Creation Meditations by Jill Gowdie and Michael Mangan
  • Open Our Hearts
  • By: Michael Mangan and Anne Frawley-Mangan (2010)
  • A 4 CD collection to help teachers and parents easily teach Christian Meditation to children.
  • Christian Meditation is 'prayer of the heart' which takes place in silence, with the aid of a mantra.
  • Melbourne Catholic Education Office website: RE Source
  • Resource Sheet added to Sample unit page.
  • Bible – Genesis1:1-2:3
  • Young Children and Worship p 92
  • Brainstorming activity
  • An Advertising campaign
  • Research Jewish practices
  • Write a blessing prayer
  • Create and decorate a Mandala
  • De Bono’s Six thinking hats

Year 5 Term 3 RESOURCES
UNIT - What can I do to show that I act justly in all my decisions?
  • Resource 1: Think Pair Share Strategy
  • Resource 2: 5Ws strategy
  • Resource 3:
  • Resource 4: Social Justice Calendar
  • Susanna Di Mauro, Trudy Walsh & Mark Elliott (2003) People of Justice Module Catholic Education, Archdiocese of Brisbane p 20
  • Resource 5: Person Pyramid
  • Hats proforma with hats overview to prompt question development
  • Resource 6: Y chart
  • Catholic Mission:
  • Caritas Australia and Project Compassion kits:
  • St. Vincent de Paul:
  • Centacare:
  • Resource 7: Basic Principles of Catholic Social Teaching
  • Resource 8: Jigsaw Strategy

Year 5 Term 4 RESOURCES
UNIT -I wonder how meeting Jesus in the Eucharist can change my life.
  • A-Z strategies p 71
  • Descriptions of the 4 parts of the Mass
  • EXPLORE - the Presences of Christ
  • The Presences of Christ
  • The Meaning of the Mass Teacher Background
  • Teacher Background
  • A Friendly Guide to the Mass p8-15
  • Teacher Background-A Friendly Guide to the Mass p8-15
  • God Calls-We Gather
  • The Introductory Rites
  • 5Ws and H A-Z strategies p 144 (use this model as an example to students)
  • Information in “What’s New About the Mass” student book p9-10 WNATM teacher edition p19-20
  • Teacher Background A Friendly Guide to the Mass p18-26
  • Scripture probe Into the Deep p62-63
  • WNATM teacher edition p26-30 and p33-36
  • WAPPT StrategyA-Z strategies p143
  • Teacher Background A Friendly Guide to the Mass p38-55
  • WAGS A-Z Strategies p142
  • Scriptural Think Pad Into the Deep p82-84 The Last Supper Comparison
  • Teacher Background: A Friendly Guide to the Mass p56
  • Poem Instructions Original Poem Exemplar