Design Brief Community Garden

Introduction
Water Wise Warriors! The local Council need your help! For World Water Day this year the
Council would like to open a community garden but need your help to ensure it is water
wise! They heard you have begun learning about where our water comes from and the
importance of saving water and is why they need your help in designing a garden that is
water wise. Are you up to the task?

Brief
You are required to design a community garden that is water wise and sustainable. You will
be working in small groups and each group will be designing a community garden. Once the
design process is complete and a list of resources has been made, as a group you will then
create a miniature world using your community garden design. You will be encouraged to
bring in resources from home and resources found around the school.

Generating Design
Are you ready warriors?
You must draw up one design per group of what must be included to ensure the community
garden is water wise. You will be provided A3 paper and an IPad for designing the garden.
The paper is for drawing up the design and the IPad is for groups to gather further
inspiration and knowledge of what should be included in a water wise garden. You will need
to clearly label and state what factors make the garden water wise so the council know
what has been implemented in the design. All group members must be involved in the
decision making process and everyone should be working as a team.
A link that may be useful: https://www.watercorporation.com.au/-
/media/files/residential/save-water/saving-water-in-the-
garden/your_guide_to_a_waterwise_garden.pdf?la=en&hash=E6478DA03936C132DAF06E
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Project Specifications
 Resources brought in for miniature world cannot be dangerous or harmful.
 Once the design process is completed students must present their idea to class
teacher before commencing to the creating of the miniature world.
Materials for task
Designing process: (per group)
 A3 sheets of paper
 Coloured pencils/ markers
 IPad
Creation Process:
 Teacher will provide same sized containers for all groups
 Students will create a list of resources needed for collecting
 Students will bring in resources
 Natural resources (dirt, leaves, grass, etc.) can be found in the school
environment.

Project Management
1. Introduce the topic of water wise and water safety and its relation to water
conservation.
2. Introduce design brief and discuss the important factors that may need to be
considered when designing a water wise garden.
3. Separate students in groups.
4. Students design water wise community garden and create a list of resources.
5. Students gather resources and container for miniature world.
6. Students then create the miniature world and take photos of the final product and
attach what factors they have included to ensure the garden is water wise.
7. Send design and photos to council for approve.
8. The community garden approved from the council would then be brought to life
with the help of the year two’s.

Evaluation
 What would you change if you were to design the garden again?
 What water wise strategies would you change or would you try implement more?
 Do you strongly think your community garden design met water wise standards?

Presentation
Students will present their design in the form of paper and a miniature world replica of
paper design.

Time
Approximately two- three lessons could be allocated for this activity.