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Lift Off series 1 & 2 integrate the latest thinking in child development and early childhood education. Lift Off is unlike any other early childhood program in that it is underpinned by the theories of Howard Gardner (Frames of Mind; The Theory of Multiple Intelligences). Order the videos Resources Lift Off is available as separate episodes, in theme packs and as Curriculum packages produced by the ACTF and the Curriculum Corporation. Segments from Lift Off are also used in 3 ACTF Cross Curricula Resource packs with captions for the hearing impaired. Order the videos, theme packs or Curriculum packages I Think...Cross Curricular resource for teaching philosophy, years 1-7 Chill Out , exploring conflict- years 1-6 What’s Fair, ethical inquiry- years 5-8

KLA, Year Level and Theme	Description
Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: The Arts; SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Indigenous Issues	1. Aboriginal Art Students explore aboriginal art by undertaking research in the school library, visiting an art gallery, listening to a speaker on the subject and trying out some of the art styles used by aborigines.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Indigenous Issues	2. Aboriginal Dreaming Stories Students view some aboriginal dreamtime stories, research further stories, make costumes to act our a story and finally write or draw their own dreamtime stories. .


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: English; SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Indigenous Issues	3. Aboriginal Families Today Students view short films of indigenous outback children engaging in everyday activities. They then discuss contrasts in lifestyles of rural and city children, and of indigenous and other cultures.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	4. About Death and Dying These activities explore how different cultures deal with death. Aboriginal dreaming stories feature prominently and students investigate the notions of 'living' and 'non living'.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 3 KLA: English; Mathematics; Science Theme/Topic: Our Place in Space and Time	5. It's About Time These activities involve students in exploring the concept of time and how and why it is measured.


Year Level: Year 3 to Year 5 KLA: English Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Advertising; Our Place in Space and Time	6. Advertising Students explore advertising in print and television including truth and fairness and emotive manipulation of the audience. They analyse the content and film language used to put the message across.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Film Language	7. Animated Stories Students view some animated stories and discuss ways of telling and retelling stories. They create stories and compare animation and print as storytelling media.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 4 KLA: English; SOSE Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure	8. The World of Backsaks These activities use the delightful backsaks from Lift Off to explore language, storytelling, power and lack of it and to create a script and a backsak.


Year Level: Year 2 to Year 4 KLA: English; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	9. Below the Surface This lesson focuses on things happening beneath the surface.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Mathematics; Science Theme/Topic: Environment; Our Place in Space and Time	10. Caring for Pets These activities provide an interesting and thoughtful introduction to the study of pets and the role they play in the children's lives.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Change; Environment	11. Changing Environments These activities introduce students to research as a way of finding out about the local environment and how people have impacted on local wildlife.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Ethics, Values, Justice; Self and Relationships; War and Conflict	12. Clash This episode of Lift Off deals with conflict resolution. Students view the stories in the episode, discuss the issues raised then explore conflict as a narrative device and create their own stories.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Civics and Citizenship	13. A Sense of Community Students explore the concept of community. The Munch Kids and other segments provide a discussion starter about what community means.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships; War and Conflict	14. Confict Resolution These activities focus on interpersonal relations, conflict resolution and dealing with teasing.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Technology Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	15. Designing a Cubby During these activities, students learn how to read a house plan and design a plan for a cubby house. They create a model of the cubby then make a life-size model of a cubby house.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Technology Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	16. So, That's How It Works! These activities present some ideas for using some Lift Off segments as stimulus to creative design.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English; Technology; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Growth and Development	17. Faces Students explore 'faces' - their similarities and differences, how and what they communicate, what they hide. Students make masks, a self portrait, design labels, research face painting and body art.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Families	18. All Sorts of Families The Lift Off families provide models for a range of family groups including nuclear, single parent, extended and blended. Episodes of Lift Off provide a context for exploring the concept of family.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships; Growth and Development	19. Feeling Connected With these activities students explore feelings, particularly how feelings are expressed and the language of feelings.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	20. Feeling Lost These activities explore the concept of being 'lost' and protective behaviours to reduce the possiblity of being lost in a physical space.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Environment	21. Fire Safety Students explore the concept of fire and develop strategies for dealing with a house fire.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships	22. Friends These activities focus on identifying what makes friends. Students engage in discussion, role play, decontructing visual text, and making a visual display. They might also make a flip book animation.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Film Language	23. Giving Credit These activities introduce aspects of teaching visual texts and provide students with opportunities to investigate and extend their prior knowledge of the construction of television as a text.


Year Level: Year 1 to Year 3 KLA: Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships; Growth and Development	24. A Good Sport! Encouraging students to discuss positive and negative behaviours in their relationships with peers, these activities focus on strategies for dealing with negative feelings and feelings of inadequacy.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 3 KLA: English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Film Language	25. It's A Good Story These activities introduce aspects of teaching visual texts and provide students with opportunities to investigate and extend their prior knowledge of the construction of television as a text.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 3 KLA: Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	26. I Can Do It Students discuss what they can and can't do; taking personal responsibility; setting goals and developing a plan to achieve them. The lesson also introduces symbols as a linguistic device.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 3 KLA: The Arts; English; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	27. Into the Unknown These activities explore fear and the unknown and strategies for handling them.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	28. Keeping Fit These activities explore the notion of 'well-being' right into the older years. Students investigate what keeps people fit and then design a fitness maching and a fitness circuit for the school.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Science Theme/Topic: Environment	29. Light and Shadows In this episode of Lift Off Poss and Kim make shadow puppets. Students make their own shadow puppets and explore some of the properties of light through researching rainbows.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure	30. Lotis, the Word Factory These activities engage students in the playfulness of the English language. They play with words while learning about word meanings.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Technology Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	31. Making It Move These activities focus on the design aspect of creating products by focusing on games and toys.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE Theme/Topic: Ethics, Values, Justice; Environment; Advertising	32. Needs and Wants These activities explore the notions of needs and wants, ranging from individual immediate needs to survive to wants fueled by advertising to social wants.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships	33. That's Not Fair! Students explore the concept of fairness. They view the program, write a poem in rap style, discuss issues about fairness and develop a code of conduct that's fair to all in the classroom.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships	34. Real Friends These activities focus on friendship using illustrations of friendship between humans and between humans and pets. One activity focuses on film language used to tell a story.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Civics and Citizenship	35. Rules, Rules, Rules These activities explore the role of 'rules' in our lives.


Year Level: Year 1 to Year 4 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Film Language	36. Smile: You're on Candid Camera These activities introduce aspects of teaching visual texts and provide students with opportunities to investigate and extend their prior knowledge of the construction of television as a text.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Film Language	37. Sound FX These activities introduce aspects of teaching visual texts and provide students with opportunities to investigate and extend their prior knowledge of the construction of television as a text.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Multicultural Australia	38. Spanish Festivities With these activities students explore the Spanish culture. These activities can be extended into an exploration of the cultures of students in the class.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Environment	39. Taking Action These activities involve students in identifying local issues of importance to them and developing strategies for taking action.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Cultural Studies; Multicultural Australia	40. A Taste of Italy Students use map reading, empirical research, listening, and writing skills to explore another culture. They can lead on to explorations of other community cultures relevant to the students.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Advertising	41. That's Advertising Students explore the language used in advertising. They identify persuasive words used in advertising, analyse some advertising techniques and create an advertising slogan for a product.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Growth and Development	42. I Think I Can These activities explore the difficulties, apprehensions of trying something for the first time and how people's behaviour can encourage or discourage confidence.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Civics and Citizenship	43. Together We Can These activities provide students with strategies for participating in community decision making.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships	44. At Wakadoo Cafe The these segments focus on the interpersonal relationships of the regular characters in the cafe as they go about their business. Emotions like jealousy, trust, ambition, friendship are explored.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure; Film Language	45. What's the Plot? Students analyse the narrative structure of selected program segments, illustrate one segment then create their own visual story. They also hear a professional storyteller describing the craft.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Film Language	46. What a Character! These activities introduce aspects of teaching visual texts and provide students with opportunities to investigate and extend their prior knowledge of the construction of television as a text. Worksheets: pro forma The Families


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English; SOSE Theme/Topic: Environment	47. What's Rubbish? With these activities, students explore the concepts of rubbish and recycling. They learn to make a concept map and a collage.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: English; SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Families	48. What's A Family? These activities explore the concept of the 'family': what makes a family?; how do families differ?; what and why are there family rules?; handling confict.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Ethics, Values, Justice	49. What's For Sale? These activities explore the concept of what is valuable. Students view several stories and draw from them issues about the value of places, things, friendship, and money.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: The Arts; English Theme/Topic: Narrative Structure	50. Stories Without Words These activities explore the usual of visual language in film. Students view several segments from Lift Off and discuss the meaning of the stories told without sound.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE; Technology; Health and Physical Education Theme/Topic: Self and Relationships; Civics and Citizenship	51. Let's Work All together Now These activities explore: the role of paid and unpaid work in the community; collaborative learning; design skills; reflection on learning; the role of music in a school community.


Year Level: Kindergarten/Pre-school to Year 2 KLA: SOSE Theme/Topic: Civics and Citizenship	52. The World of Work These activities focus on the nature of work, common work skills, specific occupational skills, and jobs that interest individual students.


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