Lesson One – Moses’ Childhood

This religious education teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise using drama to explore and present information about the early life and childhood of Moses from verses in the Old Testament.
The class can explain how Christians follow the teachings in stories from the Bible as a guide for their lives to understand how Moses’ life was impacted by events.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using drama to explore and present information about the early life and childhood of Moses from verses in the Old Testament
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to describe the sequence of events in a story from the Bible about Moses’ childhood and a worksheet to retell a story from the Bible using drama by extending a play script about the early life of Moses.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use drama to explore and present information about the early life of a significant figure from the Old Testament.
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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