Background

The KDC Built Environment Challenge is open to Stage 2 class groups.

Stage 2 is a time at which students are beginning to work in contexts beyond their personal experiences. The Challenge encourages students to work beyond the school, to identify the needs and wants of a variety of people and groups within the local community. Students participate in real-world activities and interact with community organisations and industry experts.

The Challenge provides a rare opportunity for Stage 2 students to participate in activities that highlight and promote their achievements beyond the school.

Through participating in the KDC Built Environment Challenge students will develop:

• knowledge and understanding in the Built environments content strand
• skills in the learning processes of Investigating, Designing and making and Using technology.

The challenge has a strong designing and making emphasis.

Investigating and designing built environments

There is a wide range of information available that details the content and intentions for learning in the Built environment content strand and the learning processes:

Syllabus links

• Science and Technology K-6 syllabus and support document
• Science and Technology K-6 revised outcomes published in 1997, available from Board of Studies, NSW web site
• Foundation statements for Stage 2 - these replace the syllabus Stage Statement and set out the knowledge, skills and understanding that each student should develop in Stage 2 Science and Technology.

Support materials

• Supporting SciTech in the Primary School CD-ROM:
  
  • Stage 2 Syllabus Outcomes and Big Ideas: Built Environments content strand and the learning processes
    
  • Resource Unit: Built Environments
  • The full resource Supporting SciTech in the Primary School is also available online.
  
  
• Quality Teaching in NSW public schools:
  KDC Built Environment Challenge provides explicit links to the dimensions and elements of the Quality Teaching model.

Essential information

Permission to publish student work
Before materials can be published as part of the KDC Built Environment Challenge Showcase informed consent must be provided by both students and their parents or caregivers.

The form Permission to publish online provides a model that can be adapted for use at your school. Consent forms must be held at the school.