Technologies Unit: Building a Bee Hotel

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The Building a Bee Hotel Unit is a complete design and technologies project where students explore sustainable habitats for native bees. The unit includes lesson plans, worksheets, design challenges, a building checklist, a risk assessment, and a grading rubric to guide students through researching, planning, and constructing their own bee hotels. The unit includes 5x 45-minute lessons that can be completed over the course of a week, or staged out over the term.

•    STEM, STEAM & Design Lessons: Introduce students to the design process from research to construction.
•    Environmental Science Integration: Connect with units on pollination, conservation, and biodiversity.
•    Inquiry-Based Learning: Students investigate, design, and build their own bee hotels.

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Curriculum Codes

AC9TDEFK01 9

Explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people

AC9TDEFP01 9

Generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas, and use materials, equipment and steps to safely make a solution for a purpose

ACTDEK001 8.4

Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

ACTDEP007 8.4

Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions

ACTDEP008 8.4

Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment

ACTDEP006 8.4

Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling

VCDSTS013

Identify how people create familiar designed solutions and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs

VCDSCD020

Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions safely

VCDSCD021

Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment

VCDSCD019

Visualise, generate, and communicate design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling

STe-1WS-S old

Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas

STe-2DP-T old

Develops solutions to an identified need

ST1-1WS-S old

Observes, questions and collects data to communicate and compare ideas

ST1-2DP-T old

Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity

ST1-7MW-T old

Describes how the properties of materials determine their use

ST1-9PW-ST old

Investigates how forces and energy are used in products

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Modifications

•    Provide pre-drawn templates for students who need extra support with design.
•    Allow students to work in small groups to encourage collaborative learning.
•    Offer alternative building materials to accommodate available classroom resources.

EXTENSIONS

•    Compare different natural habitats to the effectiveness of a bee hotel.
•    Have students test different materials for bee hotels and collect data on bee activity.
•    Design digital 3D models of bee hotels before building them physically.

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