Beeswax wrap project

This project creates opportunities for students to design, create, market and sell a plastic wrap alternative, and to work with a local business or community group that supplies some materials. This lesson was devised by Trudy Ward, Clarendon Vale Primary School, Tasmania.

Additional details

Year band(s)	5-6
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Data acquisition, Data interpretation, Impact and interactions, Enterprise skills and innovation
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI6P01 Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories AC9TDI6P07 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions AC9TDI6P08 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
Keywords	Biodiversity, Science, Design Technologies, Human and Social Sciences, HASS, Data representation, Collaborative project, Computational thinking, Environment, BBC Microbit, Mind map, Inclusive education, Trudy Ward
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	Design and Technologies, Mathematics
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.