Optional: How is Easter celebrated around the world?
A Year 4 optional lesson investigating Easter celebrations to find out how Easter is celebrated across the world and why these traditions are important to some communities.
Learning objective
- To explain the significance of community and beliefs by exploring Easter celebrations.
Success criteria
- I can give examples of different Easter traditions around the world.
- I can identify links between celebrations and beliefs.
- I can describe why celebrating as a community is important to some people.
Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Display the Presentation: Expand and add detail and hand out whiteboards and pens.
Ask the children to expand each statement using their prior knowledge about Easter.
Display the Presentation: Expand and add detail and hand out whiteboards and pens.
Ask the children to expand each statement using their prior knowledge about Easter.
Presentation: Expand and add detail
Answers may include:
- For some Christians, Easter is about forgiveness because Jesus forgave the people who crucified him.
- Easter is about forgiveness and inspires some people to forgive others.
- Many people celebrate Easter to remember when Jesus died and came back to life.
- Many people celebrate Easter even if they do not believe in God.
Watch the Pupil video: Easter around the world and discuss the following questions.
Watch the Pupil video: Easter around the world and discuss the following questions.
Pupil video: Easter around the world
- What do the clips all have in common? (They all show people celebrating together.)
- What is being celebrated and how can you tell? (Easter is being celebrated because you can see things relating to Easter like images from the story, eggs and flowers.)
- What do they tell us about how people celebrate Easter? (People celebrate in different ways but they often celebrate with other people.)
Display the Presentation: Celebrating Easter and ask the children to talk in pairs about which celebrations appear to link directly with the Easter story and which do not.
Presentation: Celebrating Easter
Make presentation full-screen
Drag and drop the images under the headings based on the children's feedback, discussing any differences of opinion.
Introduce the word traditions (ways of doing things that have been passed down through generations) and point out that the video clips and images seen are all Easter traditions. Explain that while Easter is celebrated differently in many places, the traditions are often about beliefs, community and belonging.
Display the Presentation: Easter around the world and click on each country to share information about Easter celebrations in the United States, France, Greece and Spain.
Ask the children to discuss ‘Why and how is Easter celebrated?’ with their partner and note their answer on a whiteboard.
After a few minutes, ask them to join with another pair and name one pair A and the other pair B. Explain that pair A should share their answer to the question and then pair B should try and build on or challenge what they have said. Repeat with pair B sharing their answer and pair A building on it or challenging their answer.
If needed, display the Presentation: Wrapping up words to support children to include vocabulary from the lesson in their responses.
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In this unit
Assessment – R&W Y4: Who was Jesus really?
Lesson 1: Who was Jesus?
Lesson 2: Why did some people believe Jesus was the Messiah?
Lesson 3: What did Jesus do?
Lesson 4: Why does Jesus have so many names?
Lesson 5: How did Jesus inspire people?
Lesson 6: What happened when Jesus died?
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Optional: How is Easter celebrated around the world?
