STEM FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT

TERM / WEEKS: Term 3 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE YEAR LEVEL: 5

Week 2 DEVELOPMENT GOAL: Goal 15
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Ethical Personal and Social Ethical
Thinking Understanding Capability Understanding
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability

SCSA LINKS
Design Design Digital Digital TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES RESOURCES/KEY
Technologies Technologies Technologies Technologies QUESTIONS
Knowledge & Process & Knowledge & Process &
Understandings Production Understandings Production
Skills Skills

People in People in Holly’s Backyard Bees Incursion

design and design and Pre activities for incursion:
technologies technologies Bee incursion
- Students write up a list of what they would like to learn about bees information flyer
occupations occupations
aim to aim to from Holly’s ‘Honey Bee Incursion’, and revisit their KWL charts from
increase increase the previous lesson for inspiration.
efficiency of efficiency of - Students write 3 questions they would like to ask Holly. Worksheet
production production - Students draw and annotate a beehive according to what they
systems, or systems, or
think a bee hive looks like, on a worksheet.
consumer consumer
satisfaction of satisfaction of The Incursion includes:
food and food and - An observation hive with glass panel so that students can observe a
natural fibre natural fibre real bee hive in action.
products products - A demonstration of bee keeping suit and equipment.
(ACTDEK021) (ACTDEK021) - A child sized suit and veil that students can try on.
- Bees wax to pass around and smell
OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths, Science - Honey tasting
Living things have structural features and Discussion topics including:
adaptations that help them to survive in their - What makes up a hive.
environment(ACSSU043) - The bee life cycle.
- What is involved in bee keeping and the equipment used. How do bees help our
- How bees help our environment and how we can help them. environment?
- Bees importance on food systems and sustainability. How can we help bees?
- How to respond or behave around bees in our natural spaces.
(Holly’s Backyard Bees, 2018: http://hollysbackyardbees.com.au/index.php?id=3#1)
Post Incursion activities:
 OBJECTIVES
Students are able to draw and correctly label a
bee-hive on a worksheet.
Working in groups, students are able to list words
about their knowledge of bees for various letters of
the alphabet on a sheet of paper
LEARNER DIVERSITY
ASSESSMENT
Objective 1 will be measured on a worksheet and
will be assessed through the use of a checklist. The
checklist will include: If 2 separate drawings of a
bee hive were done, if there was an explanation of
the differences between the two beehive drawings,
and if the bee hives were labelled and annotated.
Objective 2 will be measured on the sheet of paper
that each group shares. Each group is to write their
answers using different coloured pencils and
indicate which colour was used by which student.
This objective will be assessed via a checklist
- Students fill in the rest of the worksheet, re drawing and annotating
their beehives and writing down the differences.
- Alphabet activity – in groups of 6, students take turns writing down a
word about bees beginning with each letter of the alphabet on a
large piece of paper. (Words can range from different bee species,
plants that bees pollinate or descriptive words about bees).
- Students with learning difficulty to be provided with a digital version
of the worksheet.
- Students with learning difficulties can also be provided with pre
written class notes
- Students with neural disorders can have access to a lesson run-
through/timetable of the incursion and activities taking place.
- Students with hearing or vision impairments to be sat at the front
during the incursion.