LESSON PLAN

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Year Level: 1 EYLF Links: Students’ Prior Knowledge:
Outcome 1.1, 1.2,  Students have been exposed to a variety
1.4, 2.1 and 3.1 of different new terms which are from the
U R Strong program. Some students are
beginning to use these words when
Content Descriptors: sorting out friendship problems.
Positive ways to react to their own  Students have become familiar and
emotions in different situations, such understand the zones of regulation
as: walking away, seeking help and clearly.
remaining calm
(ACPPS020).

General Capabilities (that may potentially be covered in the lesson)

Literacy Numeracy ICT Critical and Ethical Personal and Intercultural
competence creative Social understanding
behaviour
thinking competence
Cross-curriculum priorities (may be addressed in the lesson)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Asia and Australia’s engagement with Sustainability
histories and cultures Asia

Lesson Objectives (i.e. anticipated outcomes of this lesson, in point form beginning with an action verb)

As a result of this lesson, students will be able to:

 Identify and describe the emotions associated with the three different stages of the friend-o-meter.

Teacher’s Prior Preparation / Organization: Provision for students at educational risk:

 Music. Enable:
 Paper, pens, pencils.  Drawing ideas.
 Zones chart.  Prompting emotions.
 Friend-o-meter chart.
Extend:
 Write and elaborate on different
ideas.
 Come up with synonyms for
emotions.

Assessment of the objectives:

Running record on student comments and ideas around the different zones.
 Resources/References
Time: Motivation and Introduction:
1. Put on four different songs, get students to close their eyes
and think about what they see and how they feel in these
different areas.
 Red https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoH48RaXoTA
 Yellow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA-m6OrZZyk
 Blue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIE0PX1uXk
 Green. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuLKvcn-c7A
2. Show the students the Zone of Regulations and the Friend-o-
metre ask students what they believe is similar about the two
posters.

Lesson Steps (Lesson content, structure, strategies & Key

Questions):
1. When we are having a friendship trouble what zone are you in.
Explain that this is similar to the friend-o-meter, when we are Friend-o-meter poster.
having trouble with our friends we are in the red zone of this
friend-o-metre. Get students to think of ways to help our
friendship when it is in the red zone of the zones and friend-o-
metre chart.
2. Talk about this for all the other colours, comparing zones with
the friend-o-meter chart.
3. Ask students to share without using names when a friendship
they have moves into a different zone. Get students to mention
the emotion they are feeling and what they did to solve the
problem.
4. Get students to go into three groups and get them to draw and
write what are some emotions and actions that might occur in Coloured paper.
the different stages of a friend-o-meter, discuss before sending
off.
5. Bring students back to share their ideas about what happens
in each section of the friend-o-meter.
6. Have a chat about friendship fires. Ask students where they
think it sits on the friend-o-metre. What are some strategies to
help this friendship fire.

Lesson Closure:(Review lesson objectives with students)

1. Ask students what the friend-o-meter looks like and what is

occurring in every section.
2. What are some zones of emotions in each section?

Transition: (What needs to happen prior to the next lesson?)

 Stop right now. Thank you very much.
 Moving group at a time.
LESSON DELIVERY (attach worksheets, examples, marking key, etc, as relevant