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 focuses on the capability of patience. Students use a train led by the teacher to take them between different stations, challenging their ability to wait as the train travels on a strict schedule that does not always suit students’ desire to move freely between activities and achieve instant gratification.
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 or iview.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- develop social skills for working with others
- develop personal capabilities necessary for successful learning in the classroom.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- delay gratification
- wait patiently
- follow rules
- engage in unstructured play without teacher direction.
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum content descriptions:
Foundation Health and Physical Education
- Practise personal and social skills to interact respectfully with others (AC9HPFP02)
- Follow rules to promote fair play in a range of physical activities (AC9HPFM04)
Year 1 -2 Health and Physical Education
- Identify how different situations influence emotional responses (AC9HP2P03)
- Identify and demonstrate protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies they can use to help them and others stay safe (AC9HP2P05)
Syllabus outcomes: COES1.1, IPES1.11, INES1.3, COS1.1, INS1.3, IRS1.11, SLS1.13
General capabilities: Personal and Social Capability
Relevant parts of Foundation Year Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students demonstrate personal and social skills to interact respectfully with others. Students apply fundamental movement skills to manipulate objects and space in a range of movement situations. Students identify the benefits of being physically active and how rules make play fair and inclusive.
Students use personal and social skills when working with others in a range of activities.
Relevant parts of Year 1 – 2 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students demonstrate skills and describe strategies required to develop respectful relationships. Students develop and apply rules while collaborating with others in a range of movement contexts.
Level of teacher scaffolding: High – Facilitate discussion and direct students practicing patience.
Resources Required
- Device capable of presenting a video to the class
- Free play activities – playdough, building blocks, etc
- Pen and paper
- Sticky tape
- Whiteboard.
Additional Info
This is not an official Bluey lesson. Cool.org does not have an official partnership with Bluey.
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