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Nets, shapes … and donuts!

In this lesson, students learn about industrial engineering and explore designing cardboard packaging nets that can be folded into innovative packages.

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Biofabrication – communicating STEM frontiers

In this lesson students learn about biomedical engineering and the emerging field of biofabrication.

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Designing a school tuckshop app

In this lesson students think like software engineers and engage in user-centred design to conceptualise and prototype an app that could be used in their school tuckshop.

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Biomimicry glider

In this lesson students explore the dynamics of flight by examining animal adaptations and apply their learning to think like an aeronautical engineer and design their own glider

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Engineers think outside the square

Students explore the brainstorm and iterate phases of the engineering design process, with a particular emphasis on the importance of trying different ideas to ‘build a better mouse trap’.

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Engineering solutions for platypus protection

Students learn about the important role engineering plays in conservation. They explore how engineers, industrial designers and ecologists collaborate to mitigate the impact of human activity on different species.

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Sandcastle ratios

In this lesson students think like geotechnical engineers, exploring the properties of sand and the ways in which those properties can be used in building and construction.

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Future transport – air taxis

In this lesson, students learn about advanced air mobility, and explore the infrastructure requirements to adapt cities and towns for eVTOLs.

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Engineering is futures-focused and multidisciplinary

In this lesson, students explore the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary engineering, and how engineering is pivotal to solving future challenges such as climate change, renewable energy and food security.

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Thermoregulation in spacesuits

Space exploration demands technological advances that enable survival in extremely harsh environments. In this lesson, students will explore contemporary spacesuit design and create their own representation of the suit’s thermoregulation system.

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Zombies and network models

In this lesson, students explore the use of network diagrams to represent connections, then apply a network-based COVID transmission simulation to hypothesise how a virus might spread through a small population.

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Visualising climate change | The GiST

In this STEM lesson students explore local temperature and rainfall datasets over time and represent trends in innovative ways.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 18

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of data.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 19

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills with two-dimensional (2D) shapes, three-dimensional (3D) objects and volume.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 16

This two-week unit provides students with opportunities to explore different situations where you can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 17

This two-week unit introduces students to formal units of measurement in length and further develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of uniform informal units of measurement.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 15

This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of rational numbers and fractions.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 14

This two-week sample unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of measurement.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 13

This sample unit introduces students to making and using equal groups.

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Mathematics – Multi-age – Year A – Unit 12

This sample unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and skills in patterning.