Lesson Objective:
Understand the importance of the Israeli Emblem
Lesson Outcome:
By the end of the lesson, the children will have understood the importance of the Israeli emblem and created their own emblem for their synagogue.
Resources:
Emblem of Israel
Emblems
Emblem of Synagogue
Introduction
- Brainstorm about Israel – children to recap and add anything they know about Israel and the Hatikvah.
Main Teaching
- Introduce the Lesson – Explain that today we will be looking at the Emblem of Israel
- Show Emblem of Israel – children to think about what is on it and why it might be the emblem of Israel.
- Complete Emblem Worksheet – children to work in pairs to answer the four questions about the Emblem of Israel. Discuss answers as a class and think about why the emblem is important and used in Israel.
- Show Selection of Emblems – encourage children to discuss their relevance and why they are important to their followers.
Activity
- Create Emblem for Synagogue – children to design and create an emblem for their Synagogue to represent everything that is important to them as members (a brainstorm may be useful to help stimulate some ideas).
- Share Emblems with the rest of the class – children to show and explain their emblem to the rest of the class whilst audience should be encouraged to listen to each other’s explanations using good audience skills
Plenary
- Listen to the Hatikvah – encourage children to sing along or to read the words in their heads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNfNCkTR2Tg&feature=related
Or Sing one of the songs learnt previously.
- Children to stamp their passports – Be as decorative as you like to show the lesson completed