Every big project is made up of many parts and many steps, and the procedures needed to achieve it will vary depending on the people who are carrying them out. Thank you to our wonderful enviro-school teams, our parents helpers and sponsors who began the process of bringing these projects to life.
Part of the technological process involved each group brainstorming the components and tasks that would be sub-projects of each of our main enviro-school ideas.
This week we feature and share the process and deeper thinking behind each project.
The Chicken Coop
The chicken coop is by far our most comprehensive design and project. It is a project that more than any other embodies our school embracing our ‘country lifestyle location’.
Our children have investigated the many aspects involved in not only building a chicken coop but also the implications involved in raising and caring for chickens on a school site.
There are many sub-projects involved, including long term maintenance and sustainability of the chickens and the coop.
Here are a few of the considerations this project group have identified.
Size of the chook run, house, nesting boxes and perches
What breed of chicken is best for eggs and easy to keep and care for?
Is council consent required?
Food - feeding the food scraps to the chooks, growing our own corn for chicken food, buy peck-n-lay, dust baths, water feeders, self feeders
Trading - selling the eggs, selling the manure as fertiliser, using manure on the vegie gardens, logo for sales, egg cleaning if they are dirty, signage and advertising
Health and safety processes - hand sanitiser stations, signage, pest control
They have a lot of things to research and are lucky to have a great teacher leading the way.
Enviro-school on PhotoPeach
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