[Design and Technology] Wildlife boxes to build for Mallacoota

Tue Jan 28 08:50:56 UTC 2020

Thanks Lorraine for this info, particularly about Ken’s article that highlights his school’s efforts after the 2009 Black Saturday fires and beyond.
Just to let everyone know that one of the links in Ken’s article is out of date - there is some very good info on the City of Ipswich website about nesting boxes sizes for different animals and birds. The new link is:
https://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/about_ipswich/environment/wildlife/habitat_nest_boxes
All the best for the new school year
Jill Livett
College Head of Technologies (Years 5-12)
Design and Technologies teacher

On 28 Jan 2020, at 7:08 pm, Lorraine Tran <tranlorraine at gmail.com<mailto:tranlorraine at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Design and Technologies teachers

Welcome back to the new school year. I hope 2020 is a productive year for you all!

Given the number of schools responding to Elizabeth's call for interest in making the wildlife boxes for East Gippsland/
Mallacoota, I thought I would post this screenshot from ABC Gippsland,(Facebook) of the Bairnsdale Men's Shed as it is also involved in making wildlife boxes. I'm uncertain what animals or birds these boxes will shelter. I'm sure different sized boxes will be needed depending on which animals or birds will use them.

In the 2017 edition of Technotes, an article was published by DATTA Vic on the nesting boxes that Ken Aitken did with his Yea High School students after the Black Saturday fires. It may be a useful resource for interested teachers.

Kind regards, Lorraine Tran.

On Tue, 28 Jan. 2020, 3:05 pm Satchell, John R, <satchell.john.r at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:satchell.john.r at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hi Liz,

We are interested in taking part of this at Brentwood SC as well. At this point I’m not sure as to what and how many classes I can have on it but I would appreciate it if you could add me to the list.

Thanks for organising it!

John

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Subject: [Design and Technology] Wildlife boxes to build for Mallacoota

Hi everyone,

Hope you’re enjoying the holidays.

I’m hoping I can get you and your schools on board to help with this project I’m coordinating.
In response to the callout for wildlife boxes for all communities affected by the fires, I decided that I would organise my Year 9 and 10 students to all build a wild life box. (we don’t run PDT in year 7 and 8), as their first project for this year. Upon speaking to another teacher from a local school, she said that she would do the same with her students which got me thinking to present it to all PDT teachers.

I am in contact with the local community in Mallacoota as well as the wildlife rescue teams and they said they need hundreds of boxes and they would welcome as many as we could make. The wildlife rescue teams have all the measurements and patterns for each of the animals, specific hole sizes for specific birds, for bats and possums. The leg work as far as this side of things has been done. I thought I would get students to choose an animal they are building for and research the animal, its habitat, breading etc as their planning.
Apparently Bunnings is donating materials which is great, but do require a letter on a letterhead. I’m in the process of putting a letter together from my school which I will share with you all and you can adjust to your requirements.

At this stage I just want to get an indication of which teachers and schools would like to do this with their students. For me its about my kids being community minded and giving to others and this I think is a great way of facilitating this. I have a contact with a teacher at Mallacoota Secondary College who may join us up with students from the school which would be fantastic also. I’ve registered as a coordinator for this project so please go directly through me so as not to overload the wild life teams with more correspondence.

I’m hoping you are just as excited by the possibilities as I am and will jump on board. Any suggestions welcomed also.

Kind regards,
Liz

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Teacher

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