Lesson Four – Desert Journey

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to use drama to explore what happened to Moses and the Hebrews following their escape from Egypt into the desert.
The class can identify and record what different characters in the story might have said about their journey through the desert to show their experiences and thoughts.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to use drama to explore what happened to Moses and the Hebrews following their escape from Egypt into the desert
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe events in a story from the Old Testament in the Bible about what happened to Moses and the Hebrews following their escape from Egypt and a template to record dialogue that might have been spoken in events in a story from the Bible about Moses and the Hebrews.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use drama to explore what happened to Moses and the Hebrews following their escape from Egypt.
This lesson is part of a religious education scheme of work to get the children to explore and record the life and achievements of Moses from the Old Testament in the Christian Bible and his impact on the development of Christianity. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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