Lesson summary

The animated series Bluey serves as a valuable tool in fostering children's development of imagination, curiosity, and social and emotional learning.

This lesson uses intentional teaching strategies to focus on the capability of 'curiosity and questioning.' Students explore the physical properties of everyday objects and investigate the creative possibilities for how they can use everyday items. Students will think outside of the box (literally!) to use everyday objects as extraordinary props in imaginative play. This lesson has been designed to provide opportunities for students to explore social and emotional learning through imaginative play.

This suite of resources supports emotional and social learning and oral language development through a values framework. Each lesson uses intentional teaching strategies to develop a specific value. This lesson focuses on:

Click here for a full list of the values that underpin these lessons.

This lesson showcases a Bluey episode, which can be viewed on ClickView. Don't have a ClickView subscription? Bluey is also available on ABC iView. For real life!

Learning intentions

Students will:

work together to create a dramatic play space, with a set of social rules which are adhered to by all players
show personal responsibility in managing their time according to classroom expectations.

Success criteria

Students can:

use colourful adjectives to describe the planets
understand that different planets are made up of different things, not just solid earth
describe how and why the moon seems to change shape as it appears in the sky.

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Lesson details

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Foundation English

explore how language is used differently at home and school depending on the relationships between people (AC9EFLA01)

Year 1 English

understand how language, facial expressions and gestures are used to interact with others when asking for and providing information, making offers, exclaiming, requesting and giving commands (AC9E1LA01)

Year 2 English

explore how language can be used for appreciating texts and providing reasons for preference (AC9E2LA02)

Year 2 Science

recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky (AC9S2U01)

Foundation Visual Arts

use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to discover possibilities and develop ideas (AC9AVAFD01)
create arts works that communicate ideas (AC9AVAFC01)

Year 1 & 2 Visual Arts

experiment and play with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials (AC9AVA2D01)
use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks (AC9AVA2C01)

Syllabus outcomes: VAS1.1, VAS1.2, EN1-9B, EN1-6B, ST1-8ES

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking

Relevant parts of Foundation English achievement standards: Students can listen to texts, interact with others and create short spoken texts, including retelling stories. They share thoughts and preferences, retell events and report information or key ideas to an audience.

Relevant parts of Year 1 English achievement standards: Students can interact with others, and listen to and create short spoken texts, including recounts of stories.

Relevant parts of Year 2 English achievement standards: Students can interact with others and listen to and create spoken texts, including stories. They share ideas, topic knowledge and appreciation of texts when they recount, inform or express an opinion,

Relevant parts of Year 2 Science achievement standards: Students can identify celestial objects and describe patterns they observe in the sky.

Relevant parts of Foundation Visual Arts achievement standards: Students use play, imagination, arts knowledge, processes and/or skills to create and share arts works in different forms.

Relevant parts of Year 1 & 2 Visual Arts achievement standards: Students experiment with visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials. They make and share artworks in informal settings.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - Teachers scaffold students using unfamiliar vocabulary to describe their experiences.

Art supplies – coloured pencils and markers
Black paper – A3 size
Chalk
Coloured paper
Device capable of presenting a video to the class
Paint
Whiteboard.

This is not an official Bluey lesson. Cool.org does not have an official partnership with Bluey.

Curiosity and Questioning - Imaginative Play

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