Session 11 - Belmont City College Year 9 HASS - Jodie Davidson & Fiona Ball

1. Find your partner from last week without words

2. Without words, locate the group born in the month closest to you

3. Standing back to back, describe your urban garden design

4. Without words, enter the classroom and sit at the table with the design you think best fits the description you were given.

5. Did you choose correctly?

1. Exchange your designs

2. Take turns to explain your urban design again, including types crops, how these will rotate through the seasons, orientation (N-S-E-W), water supply, maintaining soil quality, sustainability and how you propose to feed a family of four over a year - self reflection 

3. Provide feedback to your partner group - What would make it even better? 

4. Discuss with your partner - What can be done to improve the design?

5. Reflect on feedback and knowledge from previous lessons to complete your design

1. Look at the updates made to your partner group’s design

2. How did they utilise the feedback your group provided? What creative habit did they implement?

3. Write it on the board or write it onto a post it note.

Successes

• Working in their pairs…they were all reasonably quiet

• Ability to reevaluate their designs and make improvements

• Lots of groups gave constructive feedback on designs and they were able to implement the feedback

• Sharing of ideas

• Follow through of ideas from last week such as the bird net which the student worked on for 20 minutes in order to get it to suspend over the vegetables. 

• Students tackled and overcame the challenges

• Adding a physical sun to determine where it would sit

Challenges

• People who were away for the last session, coming back and having to partner with people whose partner is away today. 

• The one more vocal student who began defending his design before he’d been provided with feedback. This may also mean that he was aware that there were things that would need to be improved. He was also annoyed at other people using solar panels.

Working in pairs is a lot more productive and there is accountability. No one can sit out and avoid participation. They are also implementing pairing really well. The making of their structures, considering and including everything - chickens, water sources, power (solar and wind), food variety, protection from birds,