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TERM / WEEKS: Term 3 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL: 5

Week 7 DEVELOPMENT GOAL: Goal 15
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Ethical Personal and Social Ethical
Thinking Understanding Capability Understanding
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Digital TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES/KEY
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies QUESTIONS
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process &
Understandings Production Skills Understandings Production
Skills

Work Introduction
independently, - Students listen to the teacher read ‘The book of Bees’ by Piotr
or Page 22-27 of the
Socha
collaboratively
- Teacher gives an explanation and outline of the lesson. Students
book of bees by
when required,
will be building and decorating their bee hotels and planting Piotr Socha
to plan, safely
develop and their seeds.
communicate Lesson Steps
ideas and - Using their designs, students build their bee hotels with the
information for materials provided by the teacher and with materials they found
solutions in nature/at home.
(WATPPS32) - Students take photos of the building progress with their school
Ipads.
- Once the bee hotels are made and fit the project specifications,
OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths, Science students decorate their hotels.
Identify available resources (WATPPS28) - Once complete, students then move to the outdoor area where
Choose appropriate units of measurement for they plant and water their seeds.
length, area, volume, capacity and mass - When all bee hotels are complete, they can be installed. As a
(ACMMG108) class, all the individual bee hotels are placed within the chosen
area, in trees, on stumps, or sitting on a wooden shelf. Seedlings
get placed on the ground surrounding the bee hotels.
OBJECTIVES
Students demonstrate their understanding of the design
Conclusion
process by creating a design and using it to build a
- students return to class and participate in a discussion about the
bee hotel.
building process and make predictions about the bee hotels
Students come up with logical solutions to problems by LEARNER DIVERSITY
building a Bee hotel that is weatherproof, aesthetically Students with learning difficulties can be provided with extra
pleasing, and provides shelter for bees. time for completion
- Students with neural disorders can have access to a lesson run-
ASSESSMENT through/timetable of the lesson and any activities taking place.
- Students with hearing or vision impairments to be sat at the front
Objectives 1 and 2 will be measured by observation of the class during discussions and mat activities.
and assessed through the use of a checklist. The
checklist will include: If students completed their design
and final product, if their bee hotel is weatherproof,
aesthetically pleasing, well put together, is easily
accessible by bees and provides adequate shelter