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Design, implement & teach a new Kindy Open Day program that would encourage Pre-preps and other students to choose our school.

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Students design a shelter and model using materials provided that can withstand the elements. (wind, water, falling debris)

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How can we use our food scrapes to assist the environment at school

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How can we reduce the amount of batteries ending up as toxic waste in landfill?

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Students had to develop an action plan for how they could prepare for a natural disaster.

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Students had to develop an action plan for how they could prepare for a natural disaster.

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Students were highly engaged in reading.  Students investigated ways to encourage younger grades to engage in reading.  They created a reading buddy program with Prep/Yr1.

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Year 8  Students investigated way to educate younger students to help to improve the Great Barrier Reef health

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Year 8  Students investigated way to educate younger students to help to improve the Great Barrier Reef health

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Year 8Student investigated way to educate younger students 

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Year 8Student investigated way to educate younger students 

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Develop a race course that is challenging as well as safe for a car to navigate around. What characteristics do you need to consider and what safety features will be included.

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As part of building a puppet theatre, students were asked to t odescribe/draw/paint/make a model of the best puppet theatre 'ever'- what would it look like? How large would it be? Which characteristics made it the best ever?

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Students investigated solutions to improve treatment of storm water for reuse by community

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Look at ways of using 'augmented reality' to help in medical emergencies.

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Students were asked to research (materials), design, build (model) and evaluate a safe, secure and comfortable Bush Fire Shelter. Students were also asked to provide an evacuation plan and shelter operating instructions.

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Year 3 students were to develop new ways to collect and recycle lunchtime rubbish from the eating area

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Year 3 students were to develop new ways to collect and recycle lunchtime rubbish from the eating area

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Students investigated ways to improve our school's sustainability garden. They researched new and emerging technologies of more sustainable growing methods e.g. vertical gardens. GM crops. They were encouraged to be as creative as they could even if it meant it wouldn't necessarily be implemented here at school.

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Develop new methods of ensuring the safety of crocodiles in our area.

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Creating a quiz game helps students to learn and achieve better results leading to a better job in the future.

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Creating a quiz game helps students to learn and achieve better results leading to a better job in the future.

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Used maths and technology to work out trig. to plan, design budget and create tri. flag poles for our school to identify cross cultural representations of our students based on enrolled data of the school.

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Students explored ways of reducing problems of pollution in local creeks and waterways.

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Year 2 Students design a solution for water wastage experiments. Create posters and explain/present ideas on why their solution is the most effective.

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Year 2 Students design a solution for water wastage experiments. Create posters and explain/present ideas on why their solution is the most effective.

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Students have to come up with a solution how to save water and then design a poster to convince other students that they should save water.

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Students design a solution to a problem (eg. pollution, traffic, safety) to make cities more sustainable.

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Students design a solution to a problem (eg. pollution, traffic, safety) to make cities more sustainable.

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Students are given creative freedom in their project and a an open client who students develop a product students interate their ideas and use their own and peers knowledge to formulate a product

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Students brainstorm the sustainability features that could be applied to a treehouse design for permanent living. Sketch out for later application to virtual 3D design.

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Students were asked to think about the issue of waste in Australia and come up with ideas of how to combat the issue.  Student ideas ranged from robots to space dumps.  We then moved on to how we can do something now that moves us towards these ideas- Tink Global, act local.

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Students were asked to think about the issue of waste in Australia and come up with ideas of how to combat the issue.  Student ideas ranged from robots to space dumps.  We then moved on to how we can do something now that moves us towards these ideas- Tink Global, act local.

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Students had to design safeguard for a town to protect the residents from a nearby volcanic eruption.

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Again, the students had to design and construct a way to keep a plant alive and growing for 6 weeks. This was due to the drought issues that we were experiencing at the time and many of the students lived on farming land. They discussed future applications of what they learnt and observed, and how they could apply these principles to their farms.

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Students had to develop a resource to assist EALD students teach their parents about being Storm Ready. Extension: Students coming from other backgrounds- could write the resource in their native tongue.

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Teacher removed a key resource from the list required by the teams so the team had to brainstorm and come up with alternatives. The creative thinking was fantastic.

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Students were asked to suggest ways how we could check the dryness of our plants during our science experiments

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Chosen school leaders had to choose a 'legacy' to leave when they graduated. This involved identifying and solving a current issue/problem face by the school.

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Students suggest new clubs to be run during lunch breaks that encourage team work and or positive social interactions.

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Students identify ways to reduce waste in their lunchboxes.

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Students identify ways to promote local indigenous languages around the school

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Junior chef's choice: right food to eat.
1.Ask students to think about the food they eat.
2. Ask students to think about the problems existing.
3. Ask students any intelligent way to design the ingredients and select the healthy food.
4. Ask students to think about to design an intelligent robot to monitor their food in taken and be able to give the best advice to choose daily food for them.

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Students will look at areas within the school that can be repurposed into a vegetable garden.  Considerations presented to the students include, sunlight, watering, soil composition, erosion, access, security, what to plant?

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Student council group exploring ways to reduce behaviour issues in classrooms extending the school rewards system to be more applicable the junior secondary transition

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Students wanted to see more butterflies in school grounds so wrote to principal to request more native plants be planted to attract more butterflies in the school garden.

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Students come up with ways to engage the whole school in break time activities.

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Students had to come up with a plan to make our school recycling friendly from the type of bins to how to get the rubbish to the recycling plant. The students
had to come up with a plan to advertise to families of the school to reduce the amount of rubbish they were bringing to the school to begin with. The students had to also come up with new technologies to help the cleaners be recycling friendly also.

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Our school has experienced significant problems with flooding and erosion. This term the students are going to investigate “What can we do to prevent erosion in our school?”

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Children had to design a parachute and container that would allow an egg to be dropped from a second storey, they egg could not break.

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Stations are set up in the Library to challenge students. Popular open ended ones have been: 1. Build the tallest structure possible from mini marshmallows and spaghetti.
2. Build a paper cup structure using the given materials and without touching the cups with your hands
3. Bee Bot Trials
Students had to write a program for a Bee Bot to follow, the written program was swapped with another student and they had to program their Bee Bot to the instructions. Lots of Trial and error!! and Fun!

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Investigate ways to improve the layout and acoustics in the computer lab - hard floor  & large, glass, uncovered windows, no power in the middle of the room ....

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Open ended problems are givend biweekly. Students are encouraged to solve these problems any way they wish but need to explain the process of their thinking along the way to class members. All contributions are valued discussed for risk and possibility. This often leads to more 'adventures'. Higher ability students are invited to create and share their own problems. The class then investigate ways of achieveing these new 'dreams' thus showing that everything has possibility. The beauty of this is that reluctant students and students predisposed to 'one answer' thinking are now challenging themselves without fear, but rather a newfound enthusiasm.

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Students investigate the effects of cyberbullying and the corresponding statistics, comparing these against different countries and suggesting

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Students were given a piece of flat alfoil and asked to plan, design and create a boat that would not sink when a marble was placed in the middle when put into the water

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Once again, Opti-MINDS comes to the forefront for me. the challenges I have facilitated children solving for the past 20 years have come very close to hitting the Moonshot ideals. My biggest issue with Mainshot ideals would be the expectations of our superiors. The possibility of not having an assessable outcome that can be represented and graded on a scale that can be compared with the results of others for reporting makes it a hard case to sell.

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Students research recycleable materials and then focus on which waste materials created within the school grounds. Then use these materials to build furniture that can beused within the school.

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Students had to research recyclable trash and come up with ways they could use it to make some money for school projects

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esign an app that would help a group of people that was considered disadvantaged, such as the homeless.

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Students had to research and then deisgn a peice of technologly that they could bring to the town or school that would help in some way

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Residents of a town are experiencing low ADSL internet speeds due to lack of infrastructure as ISPs are waiting for the NBN rollout. Some residents who have recently connected to the NBN are now having issues with sporadic internet speeds. How can we make internet speeds faster for residents?

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Design a medical pack that will both heat and cool in the one pack, this would be great for students with sporting injuries at school.

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Students to plan, design and create a prosthetic arm that will be able to pick up an object and be able to hold it

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Investigate ways to ensure that our students  are getting home safely. Develop ideas to solve the problem with technology that may not be invented yet.

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Use minecraft to design and create their ultimate school.

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Students had to investigate ways that they could reduce the amount of littering from tuckshop products. They needed to communicate their ideas and get the school community thinking.

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STEAM Club team xProblemsthey have tackled so far: global deaths from mozzie bites, waste at school, native bee population at school, single use plastic bags, world hunger, battery waste

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Recently, students had a disco to raise money. They had to vote on two charities to decide who received the proceeds. Only one recipient but students looking for extra ways to support the other charity, too.

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Students want to encourage all students in the school to reduce their lunch 'waste footprint" to lessen the amount of rubbish from our school going to landfill. Next term the students will collect data and turn it into information to persuade students to aim for a zero lunch 'waste footprint'

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Students felt that unlike other year levels in the school, they did not have their own dedicated space in the playground. They wrote letters to the principal outlining their ideas for transforming some areas in order to solve the problem.

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Health and Fitness: My students love dancing and Zumba as brain breaks during class time. They noticed that a large number of students during lunch time are inactive. They are currently working on creating organised games and activities that would promote physical activity and fitness and on ways to promote these activities to other students.

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On a school community level students could think of better ways to solve the problems of reducing waste at lunchtimes, saving water or recycling. 

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On a school community level students could think of better ways to solve the problems of reducing waste at lunchtimes, saving water or recycling. 

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It would be good for kids to be able to survey the school and see if they can note problems like erosion or rubbish/litter issues and then plan and design concepts that could be put forward for further development

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As part of Design and Technologies and Visual Arts, students were required to design and make a product that supports the need for a shelter as a part of aSmall Creek Development. The task included responding to work by recognised designers, investigating a place that supports or protects wildlife and to consider the elements and principles of design including Colour, Line, Shape/Form, Texture, Scale, Contrast, Proportion. To conclude the task students were required to describe and explain their design to other students in the class and persuade them that their shelter will be an important addition to the Small Creek Project.

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Prep Year 1
Students had to come up with persuasive ideas to convince the Principal that they could bring their bikes to school to ride around for a day.

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How can we encourage more native wildlife into our school habitats

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How can we encourage more native wildlife into our school habitats

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Children were asked to write a persuasive  about why they should not have to do homework. We brainstormed reasons and researched the 'for' and 'against' and then students wrote their letter to take to the principal.

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Students were asked to design an Ebook for a Prep student.

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Students investigated how they could turn an unhealthy garden habitat into a healthy one where animals and plants could survive.

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Yr 5/6 children have just been asked by local community member to help in convincing the local council that  they need to increase their recycling because of the waste generated

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Yr 5/6 children have just been asked by local community member to help in convincing the local council that  they need to increase their recycling because of the waste generated

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Students were asked to redesign the classroom into a learning space they would enjoy. They were

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Students investigate and prepare a debate on logging in the world's rainforests. They then devise a plan about how our class can make a small impact towards conserving the environment locally.

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Students use a scale site plan of the school to program a robot (mbot or similar) to deliver tuckshop orders to teacher staffrooms  safely.
Extension to this could be Design a safe way of delivering hot liquids (tea, coffee) around the school considering the physical environment and pedestrian traffic.

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School bags in the classroom were causing trip hazards. Students collaborated to find solutions, decided on solution and actioned the solution.

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Perhaps not xProblem but discovering about healthy catchments and their output and how they could make their own drop in the 'clean' ocean.

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Master class for students involving dissections to understands the futures to surgery in animals

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Litter around our classroom, is often a problem. Students to investigate the affect this may have on the local wildlife (our school is next to a National Forest) as well as the school, and design and implement ways to reduce/stop the littering.

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Crows are a very big problem in the school,  taking lunches, making a mess and lots of noise. Students investigate ways to solve

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Students investigated ways to reduce the accumulation of rubbish in the car park. Request the coucil to provide bins for the area.

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Students to investigate and consider the effect of erosion on our local beaches and devise a plan to address the issue.

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Students have recently studied NASA and International Space and how their inventions and medical research have impacted our lives.

So at the end of this unit I gave them this problem:

We looked at the United States Spending budget and discussed how much money is spent on NASA.

Students were then given the pie chart and then in their groups had to come up with a solution to redistribute the percentages spent on each sector of the economy.

Keeping in mind the discoveries that have impacted our lives, will they give the Science sector more money?

The problem being - from which sector will students take the money from?  How will this effect the other sectors?  Why is there so much money spent on their Military?

Finally, they had to write up their solutions to Donald Trump (we didn't really send ) persuading him to change the budget.

Extension: Students then created a digital presentation reaching out to Donald Trump the importance of their distribution.

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During play time blocks were being knocked over by others and people were getting upset. Students developed a plan collaboratively to make a race track and gave each other roles in the project.

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Students consider the supermarkets' strict cosmetic standards when it comes to fresh produce and the effect it has on farmers, the environment etc when approximately 40% of produce ends up thrown away. Students investigate ways to address this issue.

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Competition Entry. Investigation of soils’ impact on plant growth for farmers, in particular Broad Beans; experiments, research, reflection then creation of a scientific report.

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Students investigating ways of making sure that the pick up point is less conjested and safer for students waiting to be picked up.

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Students investigating ways of encouraging families to travel to school in a sustainable and safe  manner therefore reducing local conjestion & pollution.

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Students consider the impact of the industry of the local area on water quality.  They design a solution of improve water quality.

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The school is having a rubbish crackdown. Year 7 students brainstormed ideas on how to best fix this issue. They also looked at the wider problem of environmental impacts.

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Crows were taking veggies and fruit growing in the school garden. Students come up with ideas or ways to deter the crows that does not harm them.

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Create a game using Lego robots and sensors. Soccer

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Prep playground was becoming crowded during play time. Children identified worries or concerns and then suggested solutions to ease the crowding.

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There is no room for teachers to park their cars in the car parks allocated. Teachers are now parking on the grass. Students are to design what impact this is having on the environment and design a solution to solve thiswith the minimal cost and use of materials.