Lesson plans and activities: Early Years
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Lesson plans
KLA-based lesson plans with a values focus (approximately 50 minutes in length) for primary (Early Years) students are available for downloading as PDF files below. Each lesson includes teaching and learning strategies with getting started, discovering and bringing it together activities.
Early Years
Students will consider different Australian identities and explore what it means to be an Australian. Students will reflect on the lives of both famous and personal Australian role models and consider the values they demonstrate. Students will then think about how they might be special Australians and set and enact personal goals based on specific values. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will discuss why people give and receive cards and reflect on how giving and receiving cards makes them feel. Students will design and make their own pop-up card for someone they care about, after considering various design options. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will explore a day in a child’s life in another country, specifically Japan. Inquiry and discussion are focused on geographical location, comparing similarities and differences and global interconnectedness.
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Students will enter the realm of interfaith studies by investigating and reflecting on celebrations from two different religions. In particular, special days in the Christian and Islamic traditions are explored. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will explore the connections between the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) environmental message and values through reusing manufactured objects or using found objects as percussion instruments. Students will learn to play percussion together and vary such elements as rhythm, pace, volume and texture. Students will reflect on the application of the 3Rs conservation message in their own lives. Students will experiment with found or reused instruments to make a percussive backing to a 3Rs message. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lesson aims to demonstrate how values education can be applied in the primary classroom using a practical demonstration of hand washing. By reflecting on a technique to wash hands efficiently, students will discover that awareness of and responsibility to others are important values that underpin reasons for washing hands. Students will then demonstrate their understanding by designing a class poster to visually represent the consequences of having both dirty hands and clean hands. This will serve as a reminder for students to take responsibility to wash their hands appropriately throughout the day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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