Teacher guide · Real Life Lab · Easier · about 30 min

🧦 Tidy Time Order

Pupils practise real life thinking through "Tidy Time Order": Put the morning in the right order.

Lesson guide

1. Hook · 5 min
Show the 🧦 mission title and read the opening: "Put your morning in order.". Take three quick guesses.
2. Model · 5 min
Think aloud through the first step together. Use Coin the Raccoon's line as your prompt: "Smart call. Money and time both count."
3. Do · 10 min
Pairs work through the 3 steps on screen or on the printed sheet. Circulate and ask "why?"
4. Discuss · 10 min
Use two or three of the discussion questions. Ask pairs to share different answers, not just correct ones.
5. Reflect · 5 min
Exit ticket: one sentence on how they used real life thinking today.

What was the hardest choice in "Tidy Time Order", and why?
What is one job you can do all by yourself — explain your reasoning to a partner.
Where could you use real life thinking outside school this week?
If you did this again, what would you change?

Support: Read prompts aloud, pair with a confident partner, and accept spoken or drawn answers for writing steps.

Stretch: Ask pupils to create their own extra step for a partner and explain the correct answer.

National Curriculum: Maths: money, measures and solving real-world problems
PSHE: Living in the wider world: economic wellbeing — money, saving and choices
PSHE: Health & wellbeing: keeping safe and everyday responsibilities

Pupil sheet

Name: ____________________ Date: __________

1. Put your morning in order.
___ Brush teeth
___ Eat breakfast
___ Go to school
___ Put shoes on
___ Wake up
2. Match the thing to where it lives.
Socks → ________________
Cereal → ________________
Toothbrush → ________________
Coat → ________________
3. What is one job you can do all by yourself?