Sustainability Superheroes

Explore sustainable gardening and crop farming practices by participating in growing plants for food, exploring our compost and worm farm area and using problem solving skills to design a simple rainwater harvesting system.

Students will develop an understanding of how their super powers can save the world!

• Explore and participate in sustainable living and agricultural practices that reduce environmental impact such as growing vegetables, composting and native, stingless bee-keeping.
• Design a simple rainwater harvesting system within the specified design criteria.
• ​Model superhero behaviours to take the sustainability message back out into the world.

• Learn about making futures focused sustainable decisions.
• Explore sustainable gardening processes by investigating composting, worm farms, native bee hives, edible plants and rain water management.
• Plant a seed, utilising recycled materials and exploring the concept of a circular economy as a solution to climate change.
• Collaboratively design a sustainable rainwater harvesting system, considering the properties of materials.
• ​Model sustainable behaviours to communicate to the world.

Focus Syllabus Outcomes

Science

• Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity  (ST2-2DP-T)
• Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes (ST2-7MW-T)  
• Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants for food, clothing and shelter (ST2-5LW-T)