Kids Design Challenge: Little Kids

the challenge

We all share our playground with lots of different living things. They all have different needs and live in all sorts of different places or habitats. Sometimes the people at school make life difficult for the other living things - both plants and other animals.

Your challenge is to identify what we can do to make it a better place for everything to live in.

design brief

To investigate the school environment and propose some action to make it a better place in which things can live.

Your proposal must include information about the area or issue, a simple action plan including diagrams or images to show each step, the positive sustainable difference you made for the living things and how students imagine it will be in the future.

key dates for stage 1

Register for 2009: by 2 March

Briefing workshops: March

Start date: Week 8, term 1

Celebration Events: Weeks 8-9, Term 2

getting started

The following sections assist teachers to implement the KDC for Little Kids.

Background information for teachers
Syllabus links: information about the learning processes - Investigating, Designing and Making and Using Technology; and the Living Things content strand.

Essential information: to assist in the implementation of the KDC Built Environment Challenge.

Timeline: KDC for Little Kids will commence in the second half of Term 1, 2009.

Resources: Useful references, web sites and organisations to contact.
Teachers are encouraged to suggest resources to add as the list is periodically updated.

KDC for Little Kids Design Proposal