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Images of
Jesus

Year 6
Term 1
Religion Unit Plan



Australian Curriculum content descriptors
Trinity: God, Jesus the Christ, Spirit.
Religious Knowledge and Deep Understanding
Jesus relationship with God the Father and humanity is described in Scripture using
a variety of titles and images
Skills
Locate and identify images in scripture that express different titles of Jesus (e.g.
liberator, creator, Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, Anointed One, Lamb of God,
Bread of Life, Rabbi, Saviour)
Explain how a title of Jesus describes his relationship to God the Father and /or
humanity
New Testament
Religious Knowledge and Deep Understanding
Gospel writers use many images and titles for Jesus. The Gospels and other New
Testament texts proclaim Jesus as fulfilling all of Gods promises in the Old
Testament (including Messiah, Son of Man, and Saviour).
Skills
Recognise a number of images and titles for Jesus in the Gospels and other New
Testament texts
Make connections between Gospel texts and Old Testament texts


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Achievement standard

Develop a clearer understanding of who Jesus is in
Christian belief and dogma;
Appreciate the need for clarity of understanding of
Jesus then-and-now in order to contextualise him and his teachings
for contemporary audiences;
Apply these understandings to the classroom learning and
teaching of Religion;
Develop a more precise understanding of the different images of Jesus.


Assessment
Students use five images of Jesus to create five freeze frames that represent
the titles of Jesus in a gospel account. These will be performed in groups but
an overall individual mark will be given.

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Week Phase Activity
Students
work
Resources
1 Launch

Students bring in a photo of themselves
before they started school.

Place the photos around the classroom
and students record who they think each
photo is of.

Discuss who was who and what clues
they used to guess = we can see through
visual clues

Introduce the focus question through a
game of Who am I through
fantales/celebrity head using the person of
Jesus as the final character = we can
know through written/verbal clues



Photos brought in
from home
2 Access

Students explore images of Jesus through
the Jesus Cards and clip from Son of
God (Face of Jesus reconstructed 10
mins)

Students complete a retrieval chart based
around what do we know about the
historical Jesus and what do we know
about the Jesus of faith (e.g. what was
Jesus message, what did he do, when did
he live, what might he have done)

Brainstorm ways that Jesus is described
in the gospels create a word wall, use
online tool like wallwisher
(www.wallwisher.com)

Discuss where we find information about
Jesus = review the New Testament using
the first 15mins of Pathways of Belief
The Bible dvd



Son od God -
reconstructed face
Jesus cards -
http://taggalaxy.de/

Retrieval chart -
Fishbone Diagram




Dave chasing up
DVD
3 Develop
Students break into four groups to explore
the different titles of Jesus found in the
gospels.

Each group creates a list of titles and

Student Bible


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images of Jesus from a list or five
scripture references



4 Demonstrate
Assessment Item

In their groups students use the five
images to create five freeze frames that
represent the titles of Jesus in that gospel
account.

Each student takes a turn directing the
frozen image, announcing the title and
reference, and explaining what the image
says about who Jesus is.




5 Access
Discuss with students why the images and
titles of Jesus are different across the
gospels

Investigate how stories are written for
different audiences and purposes e.g. a
text message to mum or a text message
to a friend, different types of
communicate, students come up with what
are examples of different
audiences/different purposes
Pose the question Who were the gospel
writers writing for? Why did they describe
Jesus in a particular way

Students research one of the gospel
writers audience, message, images of
Jesus presented (student booklet with
background information)



6 Develop
Students complete a 5 Ws chart about
one of the gospel writers
Who was the writer?
When did they write?
Where was their audience?
What did they say about Jesus?
Why did they describe Jesus this way?






7 Demonstrate
Students use the information from the
5Ws chart to create a weebly on the
gospel writer they have chosen.


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Checklist




Feedback
This section is to be completed by class teachers at the conclusion of the unit to stimulate
discussion at year level meetings.



Write a comment on the effectiveness of this unit in helping students learn.
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Does this unit reflect the Australian Curriculum cross curriculum priorities?
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
Asia and Australias engagement with Asia
Sustainability
Describe how it might be adapted to better reflect the Australian Curriculum
cross curriculum priorities and/or our EREA J ustice and Peace priorities.
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8 Evaluate
Discuss with students what did they learn
about the historical Jesus and the Jesus
of faith, the gospel writers and titles of
Jesus

What skills did they develop?


As you work through each task, tick it off:
resources in classroom
assessment expectations clear
assessment task completed by students
assessment task marked and moderated
results entered into spread sheet
feedback completed
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