5 teaching resources for F-2 students

Australian screen content offers a powerful and engaging way to support early learning, inviting young students to connect with ideas through stories that are engaging and feel familiar. Through Australian voices, landscapes and experiences, these stories reflect children’s own lives. When children see characters navigating friendships, solving problems and expressing emotions, they are not just watching; they are actively making meaning.

In the classroom, Australian children’s television becomes a springboard for learning across multiple areas. It combines narrative, visual language and play for developing literacy, social and emotional skills, and creative thinking. Whether exploring teamwork with a group of toy spies, navigating friendships in the playground, or understanding safety and wellbeing at the beach, these stories translate naturally into hands-on, student-centred learning.

These resources offer practical and flexible ways for teachers to harness the educational value of Australian content and will keep children engaged while meeting curriculum goals.

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Knee High Spies Resource

Join a team of clever, courageous toys as they work together to solve problems and save the day! Inspired by the adventures of the Knee High Spies, this resource invites students to step into the role of “spies” as they tackle missions that build teamwork, creativity and resilience.

Across five engaging missions or lessons, students explore important skills such as communication, kindness, problem-solving and collaboration through structured, flexible and hands-on learning experiences.

Designed for Foundation to Year 2, this resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum across English, Mathematics, Health and Physical Education, Media Arts and the General Capabilities.

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Eddie's Lil' Homies Resource

Eddie’s Lil’ Homies follows Eddie and his friends on their playground adventures as they navigate the fun and challenges of friendship. This resource centres on the personal and social skills and understandings that are explored in each episode. It includes discussion starters and learning activities that support Foundation to Year 2 students to understand themselves and others, supporting them to navigate relationships in the classroom, playground and beyond.

Lessons are aligned to the Australian Curriculum, addressing content from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Critical and Creative Thinking, English, Health and Physical Education, and Personal and Social Capability.

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Character Design for Animation

Get ready to explore the world of animation with Eddie’s Lil' Homies. This resource takes students behind the scenes to see how characters are created, from early sketches to the final design. Suitable for Foundation - Year 3, it guides students through simple steps: developing a character backstory, sketching their character and then adding fun details like costumes and props.

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum across English, Visual Arts and Media Arts.

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Light and Colour Resource

How is colour used to build the story? How does light create mood? How do animators use colour and light together to create rich screen content we want to watch?

Suitable for Foundation to Year 2 and aligned with the Australian Curriculum across English, Visual Arts and Media Art, this resource provides activities to support learning about how colour and light is used to visually build a story and influence the audience mood.

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Kangaroo Beach Series 3 Resource

Kangaroo Beach is an animated Australian action-comedy series dedicated to entertaining young viewers with adventurous tales, while also empowering them by teaching essential water safety skills. The series blends fun and excitement with vital information about how to be safe around water.

This resource centres on the health, wellbeing, safety understandings and physical activity skills that are explored in Kangaroo Beach Series 3. It presents lessons with engaging tasks for Foundation to Year 2 students including clips, discussion starters and movement challenges.

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum across English and Health and Physical Education.