Beeing Friendly Project

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

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• creativity
• communication
• ethical understanding
• social skills
• initiative
• digital literacy
• community engagement
• problem solving
• global citizenship

This lesson concludes the Love Food? Love Bees! unit. It provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge to create a social action project or awareness raising campaign around an issue they connected with through the unit. As a result this lesson can be integrated into a number of subject areas as the focus is on developing the General Capabilities of the Australian Curriculum and 21st century skills. 

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, ICT Capability.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.1, OI.2, OI.5, OI.7, OI.8.

Unit of work: Love Food? Love Bees!

Time required: 60+ mins (this lesson could take between three and six sessions). Time should be determined by teacher prior to commencing the lesson so that students have a clear expectation of the deadline in which to execute their project.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – oversee project planning and project execution.

Goal 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.

• Student Worksheet – one copy per student OR computers/tablets to access the online worksheet
• Project Planning Tool, Project Checklist
• Butcher’s paper and textas, online stopwatch

This lesson has been created in partnership with ACT for Bees. ACT for Bees is a not-for-profit organisation taking action to preserve these essential pollinators, ensuring a food-secure future.

How To Teach Sustainability With Hope

Quick summary: This course is for both primary and secondary teachers of all subjects, but especially for English, Science, Humanities and Geography teachers who are covering climate change and the cross-curriculum priority of sustainability.