Living and Non-Living Things

Year 3 Unit of Work: Design Brief

Perth Zoo has a new animal arriving and have hired you to design an
Introduction:
enclosure for the animal!

You will need to design an enclosure for an animal of your choice.

The enclosure needs to have everything that is essential to keep the
Brief: animal healthy in its new home. You will be making your animal
enclosure as a diorama.

You will need to plan your animal enclosure diorama by drawing a

diagram of your animal enclosure. Remember the following:
Generating
 Your animal enclosure needs to include everything that is
Ideas: essential for the animal to live a healthy life
 Your diorama should include at least 3 recycled materials

There will be some materials provided for you, but you will need to
Project bring one shoe box to use for your animal enclosure diorama. Other
materials such as small boxes, paper, cardboard, hot glue guns, pop-
Specifications: sticks etc. will be provided

1. Create 3 draft designs for your animal enclosure diorama

2. Select your best/favourite design
Project 3. Make an animal enclosure diorama of your chosen design
Management: using your recycled materials and other provided materials

When evaluating your animal enclosure diorama, make sure you

answer the following questions:
1. Did my animal enclosure diorama include all of the essentials
Evaluating: for my animal to stay healthy?
2. Did I use at least 3 recycled materials in my animal enclosure
diorama?
3. Which materials would I change next time? Why?
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Year 3 Unit of Work: Design Brief

Presentation: You will present your animal enclosure diorama to the other Year 3
class during our ‘Student Science Teachers’ Week.

Time: You will have 5 lessons in class to complete your animal enclosure
dioramas.