Building a Bee Hotel - Presentation
The Building a Bee Hotel Presentation is an interactive and structured PowerPoint that guides students through a design and technologies project focused on creating a bee hotel. The presentation introduces the concept of designed products and discusses how human-made structures can support nature. Through engaging discussions, design tasks, and problem-solving activities, students learn to plan, create, and evaluate a bee hotel, applying key STEM, STEAM, STEAM and sustainability concepts.
Learning goals
- We are learning to explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people.
- We are learning to generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas.
- We are learning to identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments to meet personal and community needs.
- We are learning to use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions.
- We are learning to use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions, including their care for the environment.
- We are learning to generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling.
Curriculum alignment
Explore how familiar products, services and environments are designed by people
AC9TDEFP01 9Generate, communicate and evaluate design ideas, and use materials, equipment and steps to safely make a solution for a purpose
ACTDEK001 8.4Identify how people design and produce familiar products, services and environments and consider sustainability to meet personal and local community needs
ACTDEP007 8.4Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
ACTDEP008 8.4Use personal preferences to evaluate the success of design ideas, processes and solutions including their care for environment
ACTDEP006 8.4Generate, develop and record design ideas through describing, drawing and modelling
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.