THE BIBLE

YEAR FOUR TERM THREE 3 WEEK UNIT

LEARNING INTENTION
LI: You will learn about the parts of the Bible.

As we explain each of these try to find them in a

Bible (you may have to work in pairs)
The Bible isdivided into the
Old Testament(containing 46 books)

NewTestament(containing 27 books).

The wordtestamentmeanscovenantoragreement.

NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT

The Old Testament was put together by
theHebrews

The New Testament was collected and

preserved by early Christiansafter the
time of Jesus Christ.

OLD TESTAMENT
Most of the Old Testament forms
the sacred text for the followers of
Judaism and is the scripture that
Jesus knew (because Jesus was a
Jew).

Using a Bible put the parts of the Bible in

order of where you find them in the Bible.
Cut them out from your
worksheet and glue them
into your book in order.

COMPLETE THE BIBLE SKILLS

ACTIVITY

LEARNING INENTION
LI: I will identify a variety of different creation stories.

CHRISTIAN CREATION STORY

BRAINSTORM
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN
CREATION STORY?
Where do we find the story of Creation?
What are the different parts of the story?
How many Creation stories are there in the Old Testament?

CHRISTIAN CREATION STORY

Click on the image to

watch the clip.

CHRISTIAN CREATION
STORIES
Using a Bible find the creation story. Read the story and
then make a comic of what happened in the beginning,
middle and end of the story.
Beginning

Middle

End

HERE ARE THREE CLIPS OF CREATION

STORIES FROM OTHER CULTURES.
WATCH THEM AND THE CHOOSE ONE TO
DESIGN AN A4 DEPICTION OF THE STORY.

HINDU
CREATION

ZULU
CREATION

ABORIGINAL
CREATION

LEARNING INTENTION
LI: I will compare different ways that Bible stories are
depicted.

Moses- Click on the clip to

watch the video
Locate the story
Ex 2:1-10 in the
New Revised
Standard Version
Catholic edition
(NRSV Cath ed.)
using Bible Gateway
.
WHAT
ARE THE
DIFFERENCES AND
SIMILARITIES
BETWEEN THE
STORIES?

LEARNING INTENTION
LI: I will compare how different text types are used in the
Bible to tell a story.

TEXT TYPES
So what are text types?
These are used in the Bible.

They can be
Information reports
Narratives
Procedure
Poetry
Persuasive

Historical - myth
Poetry
Song
Letter
List
Speech/sermon
Wise saying
Prayer

LANGUAGE FEATURES IN THE

BIBLE
They may use

Imagery (words that help you to image what something is like)

Metaphor (something is something else)
Simile (something is like something else)
Repetition (repeating words)
Symbol (something that represents something else)
Alliteration (words that start with the same sound)

Jonah - Working in pairs

Half of the class is going to
read Jonah 1.
Go to Bible Gateway and
Type in Jonah 1 NSRV
Then discuss with your
partner what the story
means

Half of the class is going to

read Jonah 2.
Go to Bible Gateway and
Type in Jonah 2 NSRV
Then discuss with your
partner what the story
means

Discuss as a class what each of the stories were

about
Then work out
- What was the same
- What was different

Jonah- Click on the clip to watch

In your religion books draw a
picture of the main scene in
the story of Jonah.
Then write a artist statement
about what the story of Jonah
tells us about God.
Think about what the moral of
the story is.