Primary School Teaching Pack
This pack is designed to correspond with the learning priorities and outcomes in the Scottish education Curriculum of Excellence. The lesson plans in this pack are designed for primary school children from 5-11 years old.
TLM Scotland shares the desire of educators in Scotland to encourage and support children in becoming successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens (both in a Scottish and a global context) and effective contributors. The pack aims to facilitate this and to meet specified learning objectives from the following subject areas within a Curriculum for Excellence:
Science
- Helping children recognise the impact science makes on their lives, on the lives of others, on the environment and on culture
- Encouraging children to express opinions and make decisions on social, moral, economic and environmental issues informed by their knowledge and understanding of science
Social Studies
- Helping children broaden their understanding of the world by learning about human activities and achievements in the past and present, political, social and environmental issues, and the values underpinning their own society and other societies
- Encouraging children to develop their capacity for critical thinking, through accessing, analysing and using information
- Encouraging children to develop their own beliefs and view of the world and develop their understanding of different values, beliefs and cultures
Religious and Moral Education
- Helping children develop a knowledge and understanding of Christianity and other world religions and recognise religion as an important expression of human experience
- Helping children explore moral values such as wisdom, justice, compassion and integrity
- Develop the skills of reflection, discernment, critical thinking, and deciding how to act when making moral decisions
Expressive Arts
- Enabling children to express themselves in different ways and be creative
- Enabling children to experience enjoyment (and contribute to other people’s enjoyment) through creative and expressive performance and presentation
Contents
This pack contains four lesson plans which use curriculum areas to look at issues raised by leprosy, the work of The Leprosy Mission and the role of fundraising in enabling international development work (materials are also provided to enable the class to hold a fundraising event for The Leprosy Mission Scotland). These sessions can be used together or as stand alone sessions, perhaps in the week running up to World Leprosy Sunday (the last Sunday in January), or at any other time in the year. They are designed for 1 hour lessons, though some lessons have more activities than you will have time for in 1 lesson, so please choose the activities which will work best with your class. While most of the lesson plans have one specific curricular area stated, the activities do tend to be cross-curricular. These lesson plans place a large emphasis on group work, and on helping children to compare themselves and their lives with those of others using practical activities and experiments, problem solving, discussions and role play. Some activities are designed differently for different age groups, please see the instructions on the lesson plans.
For background information for teachers on the disease and the way in which it affects people, please consult the leprosy fact sheet and the briefing documents in this pack.
Real Life materials are stories of people and places affected by leprosy. This pack includes a number of PowerPoint presentations of photos, which can be shown using a computer and projector/screen (marked ‘screen’), or printed out onto acetate for use with an OHP (marked ‘print’), along with a script (including questions to keep children engaged) for the teacher to read. Alternatively, the photographs can be printed out and passed around the class as the teacher reads the script.
Lesson 1
What is leprosy? How does it affect people?
Science - Our living world
How do illness and disease affect our bodies?
Lesson 2
Being a leprosy patient: Physical reality for leprosy patients
Science – Our living world
The five senses. How do they help us understand the world? What happens when one or more of them doesn’t work properly? What can you do to compensate (safety and looking after yourself)?
Lesson 3
Being a leprosy patient: Social reality for leprosy patients and those with a leprosy background
Social subjects – People in society
Social exclusion, being touched and touching people, rejection, the importance of education.
Lesson 4
Helping people
Expressive arts (drama)/Religious and Moral Education (Christianity – beliefs, moral values and attitudes)/Social subjects (People in society – needs/needs and wants)
Group role play exercise about issues faced and experienced by leprosy affected people
Discussion about how to help people, both those around us every day and people in other countries, why Christians help people.
Sample
Sample Lesson Plan (Lesson 2)
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