Hive-Five for Native Bees!

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Year 1 and 2, Science

• identify the basic needs of plants and animals, including air, water, food or shelter, and describe how the places they live meet those needs (AC9SIU01)
• describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions (AC9S2H01).

Relevant parts of Year 1 and 2 achievement standards: Students identify how living things meet their needs in places they live. They can describe how people use science in their daily lives and how people use patterns to make scientific predictions.

NSW Syllabus outcomes:

• describes observable features of living things and their environments (ST1-4LW-S).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - Lead students in drawing tasks and class discussions. Support students in taking action on native bees. The level of involvement here will depend on the task selected.

UN SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

• Target 15.5: Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species.

• Drawing materials for each student
• Optional - device capable of sharing a presentation and YouTube video

This is an original Cool.org lesson.

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