MetaPet Field Mode — Australian Schools
Lesson 2: Read the Signals
Students read a signal, interpret it carefully, and choose a settling response.
- Years
- 3–6
- Suggested time
- 15 minutes
- Use
- Teacher-led
- Records
- Alias-only, local device
Learning intention
I can read the signals a system shows and say what they might mean.
Learning areas: Digital Technologies · Health and Physical Education · Personal and Social capability
Success criteria
- I can name one signal the system is showing.
- I can say what that signal might mean.
- I can name something else it could have meant.
Teacher opening
Signals are guesses, not facts. Ask students to say what a signal might mean and what else it could mean. This is also where classroom feelings-and-settling language belongs: naming a signal, then choosing a calm response.
Systems give us signals — colours, shapes, movement. A signal is a clue, not a fact. Today we practise reading a clue carefully and choosing a calm next step.
Five guided steps
1. Signals are clues
- Teacher says / does
- Say: "A signal is a clue. Clues can be read more than one way."
- Student task
- Listen for the word clue.
- Expected outcome
- Students know a signal is not a fact.
2. Find one signal
- Teacher says / does
- Ask each pair to find one signal on the screen.
- Student task
- Find one signal. Point to it.
- Expected outcome
- Every pair has identified one signal.
3. Read it, then settle
- Teacher says / does
- Three slow breaths together, then choose one settling action on screen.
- Student task
- Breathe three times. Then choose a calm response.
- Expected outcome
- The class has linked a signal to a calm response.
4. What else could it mean?
- Teacher says / does
- Ask for one other thing that signal could have meant.
- Student task
- Say another possible meaning.
- Expected outcome
- Students offer an alternative reading of the signal.
5. Stop here
- Teacher says / does
- Say that Session Two is finished.
- Student task
- Remember your signal.
- Expected outcome
- Session Two is recorded on this device.
Support option
Point to one signal and say one word for how it looks.
Extension option
Find three signals and give each one two possible meanings.
Discussion prompts
- What signal did you notice?
- What might that signal mean?
- What else could it have meant?
Teacher notes — aliases only
Do not record student names, contact details or identifying information.