No Bees No Future

Our No Bees No Future Program is available in a variety of models:

Science Immersion Program - Full Day and Half Day options
Design Thinking: Hackathon to inform student based learning projects in your school.
Semester Based Program that includes the full immersion day or virtual workshops - design thinking hackathon - semester based citizen science research - interactive class learning portfolio and teacher support materials.

Semester Based Program

Semester Based Stage 2/3 Program

Timing: 18 week program

Overview

Students will engage in a semester based citizen science, design thinking program exploring scientific and agricultural knowledge, technologies and human interactions as they design a local solution to support the survival of pollinators and future food security.

Students will undertake two immersion days, an AgSTEM Science Immersion Day (can also be completed as 5 virtual workshops) and Hackathon-Ideation Day. Each school will have access to a dedicated website to support their learning. Each school will also publish a fortnightly blog of their learning journey on their dedicated page on the website and share their learning with their semester partners in our Community of Practice Ecosystem. They will also have access to data sets from other school sites across the state for the citizen science research.

The final element of the program involves a student led Learning Journey Exhibition and AgSTEM Careers Forum.

In Addition schools can access our three Bee Challenges focusing on short film making, infographics and game design.

his program supports teaching and learning in the areas of: Geography, Science & Technology and Careers Education

Curriculum Links

GE2: Environments—Cultural Values– Sustainable

Agriculture

GE3:Changing Natural Environments and Planning

GE Tools: M-F-GS-ST-VR

ST2: Life Cycles—Agricultural Processes– Digital Systems and Data

ST3: Environmental Conditions– Sustainable Agriculture— Data—Digital systems

ST: Working Scientifically: predictions- observations—investigations— data—reports

ST: Design Thinking processes

Cross Curricula: Sustainability and Aboriginal Knowledges

Capabilities: Communication –Collaboration—21st Century Literacies–AgSTEM Knowledge

Careers Education: Careers in AgSTEM

Cost

Do E Schools: $1200/30 students. Includes website access, support, two Immersion Days and final event. Additional classes cost $500/30 students.

Non DoE Schools please contact the Centre for more details.

Science Immersion Day - Full Day and Half Day options

Overview

Students will rotate through a series of interactive scientific workshops including pollinator identification and counts, plant structures, pollinators and plants under the microscopes, soil testing and vegetation mapping. The program also allows for a tailored workshop with a literacy, digital mapping, art or technology focus.

Curriculum Links

This program supports teaching and learning in the areas of: Geography and Science & Technology

GE2: Environments—Cultural Values– Sustainable

Agriculture

GE3:Changing Natural Environments and Planning

GE Tools: M-F-GS-ST-VR

ST2: Life Cycles—Agricultural Processes– Digital Systems and Data

ST3: Environmental Conditions– Sustainable Agriculture— Data—Digital systems

ST: Design Thinking processes

Careers Education: Careers in AgSTEM

Cross Curricula: Sustainability , Aboriginal Knowledges

Capabilities: Communication –Collaboration—21st Century Literacies–AgSTEM Knowledge

Timing

Full Day : approx 9.30am—2.30pm . (up to 5 workshops depending on the schools break times)

1/2 Day : approx 9.00am - 11.30am and 12pm - 2.30pm ( two core and one optional workshop)

Cost

DoE Schools Full Day- $500/class (Max 30 students) 1/2 Day - $300/class ( Max 30 students)

Non DoE Schools: Full day programs only $20/student. Minimum 25 students

Workshop Core

Bees and Food Security

Students will be introduced to and discuss Australian Agriculture and the significance of bees to our future food and fibre security. They will also focus on understanding the process of pollination, and how a bee’s anatomy has evolved for this purpose.

Workshop Core

Bee Detectives and Citizen Scientists

Students will become a Bee Detective and discover the large number and variety of Australian native bees, where they live, and their importance to the future of Australian Agriculture. Learn how you can become a Citizen Scientist and add to the growing data of Australian native bees and pollinators in your area.

Workshop Core

Soil Science

Having the correct soil pH is essential to ensure that plants are able to absorb essential nutrients from the soil. Different soil pH supports the diverse Australian flora as well as a variety of fruits and vegetables grown at home, school or commercially. It is important to match plants being grown to the pH of your soil, or to change the soil’s pH to match the plants you want to grow.

Workshop Optional

Bee Communication

Think about all the many ways that we communicate with each other in our day to day lives in contemporary society. Can a bee text or SnapChat their friends in the hive to share information about the best place to find nectar and pollen? Learn how clever bees are in their communication techniques, and what role the sun and the degrees of a compass play in this.

Workshop Optional

Bee Maths

Learn that bees are mathematical geniuses! How did they decide on the best shape to use for the honeycomb capsules they use in their hives? Investigate tessellation and build 3D prisms to make your own hive. Discover how bees use algorithms to help them solve the Travelling Salesperson Problem to find the shortest distance between nectar-sources.

Workshop Optional

A world without bees?

Explore the role bees play in our everyday lives. Students will take a deeper dive into the importance of bees (native and honey) and other pollinators in our everyday lives. They will also look at some of the research being undertaken about the possible roles of native bees in food production.

written and pictorial sources. Students continue to develop their note taking skills utilising Cornell notes

Workshop Optional

Bee Warriors

Listen to the history of the Humble Bee, from the time of their evolution to all the issues they are faced with in the present day. Consider the importance of their role as pollinators, and each of these current plights. You will design three different creative visual communications to advertise some or all of these plights to your local community, including ways people can help to overcome them.

Workshop Optional

Plants and Pollinators Under the Microscope

Students will work scientifically exploring plants and pollinators under the Centre's digital and biological microscopes. They will have the opportunity to explore plant structures and insect adaptations using samples collected from the school grounds and prepared samples.

Overview Design Thinking Hackathon Day - Full Day only

Take your student’s current learning to the next level.

Students will work through an intense day and prototyping using Design Thinking principles.

Students will apply their theoretical and scientific knowledge to a community focused inquiry question and begin imagining possible solutions.

Give every student a voice

The process ensures every student has a voice through collective imagineering.

Students develop their team work skills through structured negotia-tions, constructive feedback and prototyping.

Gain consensus on the direction of your group project.

The day allows for clear categorisation and testing ideas against known parameters allowing groups to gain consensus and a clear project direction.

Develop student’s General Capabilities.

Creativity—Innovation- Communication –Collaboration—21st Century

Literacies– AgSTEM Knowledge-—Leadership and Responsibility— Social and Ethical Skills.

Full Day : approx 9.30am—2.30pm .

Cost

DoE Schools Full Day- $500/class (Max 30 students)

Non DoE Schools: Full day programs only $20/student. Minimum 25 students

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