Feeling Lost

Program: / Lift Off
Year Level: / Kindergarten/Preschool to Year 2
Curriculum Study Areas: / English; Humanities and Social Sciences; Health and Physical Education
Themes/Topics: / Growth and Development
Description: / These activities explore the concept of being 'lost' and protective behaviours to reduce the possibility of being lost in a physical space.
Resources: / Munch Kids segment of Lost Lift Off 1 ep 21B ACTF - In the segment Lost, the children explore what it is to be lost and the point at which someone becomes lost. The children tell stories about their own experiences to explore different ways of being lost. The animation style is naive drawings using soft colours. Speed of movement is sometimes used to demonstrate change of feelings
Who are the Munch Kids?
The Munch Kids are real children recorded discussing real issues and big questions like what makes rubbish rubbish?; when are you lost?; what makes a community? As the Munch Kids explore the questions, their unscripted insights become alive and dynamic in an animated form.

Lesson plan:

View and discuss

View the Munch Kids segment with the group. List the students’ comments/questions for further discussion. Encourage the use of responses that begin with I wonder about, I thought that, I agreed/disagreed with ...

Discuss times when students have felt lost. Use a Y chart to record students’ own views of i.e.:

Read

Read some picture books that explore different ideas of being lost. There are any number of picture books that present the different perspectives of being lost. Ask a librarian for a selection, eg: Felix and Alexander by Terry Denton OUP 1986 which is also available as an animated feature story in Real friends ep 20A Lift Off1 ACTF.

Discuss

Discuss strategies people use to avoid becoming lost. This could lead to an exploration of signs in the neighbourhood, using simple maps, safety houses.

Make a route map

Make a map of the school yard, the route to the local shop (an excursion), or how students travel to school marking in landmarks, using simple symbols to identify features.

Discuss the film techniques

Consider the animation style, i.e.: use of style, colour, movement, sound. Discuss the choices made. Would it had been as powerful if detailed, sophisticated drawings had been used?

Related Lift Off segments.
Remember ep 13A Lift Off 1 The song called Lost is performed by Cook, Nearly, Zelda and Boss.
Real friends ep 20A Lift Off 1 The animated feature story Felix and Alexander.
My world ep 04B Lift Off 2 Raph and Annie wander off from home while being looked after by Mr. Fish

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