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Biological sciences
GROWING AND CHANGING
STEM project
STEM project overview
Life cycle map
Design and create a mat for a Bee-Bot activity, using images/text depicting the growth of a
living thing. Students then program a Bee-Bot to move along the correct pathway.
(If your school does not have access to Bee-Bots, students act as a ‘Bee-Bot’ and move around
the mat as directed by a fellow student.)
Concepts overview:
Science
• Apply knowledge of living things and their predictable characteristics as they grow and
change.
• Conduct an investigation of a chosen living thing to explore how it looks as it grows and
changes.
• Use drawings to show life stages of a living thing.
• Communicate findings in the form of a grid mat and give instructions to guide a Bee-Bot to the
correct grid squares.
Technology/Engineering
• Plan a mat design collaboratively.
• Create drawings and a Bee-Bot mat.
• Evaluate the mat and check the life stages drawn are correct, and refine if necessary.
• Program a Bee-Bot with simple step-by-step coding.
Mathematics
• Use ruler lengths to informally measure distances to create a grid.
• Use arrays to describe the arrangement of a grid as 4 x 4, which equals a total of 16 squares.
• Use fractions to determine sixteenths by folding paper or vinyl sheets.
• Create a specific pathway along a grid using quarter and half turns.
• Give and receive directions in order to follow a pathway on a grid map.
Alternative project ideas:
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• Students recreate the growth of a plant or animal out of Lego using a time-lapse movie and
verbally explain how it changes.
• Students create a digital book about themselves and how they have grown and changed using
.
• Create a habitat for an animal that caters for each of its stages in life as it grows and changes.
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