Share your solution
Fire-Ed Up Challenge
Mission 9 | Communicate
Share your solution
Communicate and share design solutions to key stakeholders.
Introduction
What is “Communicate”?
This stage of the iSTEM engineering design process requires students to unveil their solution. How will they best communicate the functions of the solution? In which medium will the communication take place? What are the key messages?
Use the lesson below to commence solving one of the following scenarios;
Mission Brief
Key Questions for Students to consider
- Have all key stakeholders been informed throughout?
- Who needs to see the solution(s)?
- How can you best share or pitch the solution?
- What enterprise and entrepreneurial skills are required to successfully market the solution?
- What are the results of product and market testing?
- Would the solution benefit a broader market? How could you reach this market
Possible Activities
- Document all aspects of the engineering design process.
- Pitch the solution.
- Communicate evidence-based results to justify design decisions.
- Communicate to key stakeholders using presentations, reports, and drawings.
- Develop a communications and marketing plan
Suggested Learning Sequence – Mission 9
Our expert curriculum designers have developed a suggested Mission 9 learning sequence for teachers. The following is for the full set of Fire-Ed Up Challenge resources, however, teachers are encouraged to only use activities that are most suitable for their own class and school setting.
Sub Mission 1: Communication and Collaboration Watch Communication and the ‘Challenge of Collaboration‘ video by Carey Furze.
Sub Mission 2: Communicate Provide students with this worksheet and get them to produce a final dimensioned orthogonal drawing. Students may wish to watch video tutorials from Glenny D.
Sub Mission 3: Pitching Provide students with ‘Pitching your Solution’ worksheets. Get students to watch ‘Pitching with Dr Scott Sleap‘ video. Using the second worksheet, get students to storyboard a pitch deck for their 90-second presentation.
Sub Mission 4: Communication – Instagram Provide students with this worksheet and discuss.
Sub Mission 5: Communication – Podcasting Provide students with this worksheet and discuss.
Sub Mission 6: Scenarios Get students to watch the selected videos from their selected scenario to provide additional context for their project.
Downloadable Resources
Communication
In this worksheet, students learn about communication and produce a final concept drawing.
Communication – Pitching
In this worksheet, students learn about pitching their concepts and making a pitch deck.
Communication – Instagram
In this worksheet, students learn how to create and the tools required to create Instagram videos.
Communication – Podcast
In this worksheet, students learn how to create and the tools required to create a podcast.
All Scenarios – Resources
General background information for teachers and students to support challenge activities.
El Niño’s huge impact on Australia explained
Learn about how El Niño forms and its effect on our weather. It’s all about air masses moving over our land and changing the likelihood of fire. (0:59 minutes)
Hazard reduction burns: the facts
Hazard reduction burning isn’t backburning, nor is it not a cure-all for preventing bushfires. So what exactly is it? (2:51 minutes)
Scenario 1: New technologies driving bushfire innovations
Understanding and predicting firestorms – UNSW
Understanding bushfires is and predicting extreme fires and firestorms is an integral factor in protecting lives, our communities and the environment. (2:52 Minutes)
Investigation bushfire ignition
The UNSW Bushfire Research Group aims to improve understanding of bushfire processes and their relation to firefighter and community saf (0:50 Minutes)
Scenario 2: Strategies to protect human life & property.
Bushfire-proofing homes with microgridding
Residents on the NSW south coast are being connected to their own electricity microgrid to protect their power supply. (2:304 Minutes)
Monitoring Bushfires and Water Quality
Professor Allison Kealy from RMIT University covers 3 technlogies being used together for remote sensing. (10:52 Minutes)
Scenario 3: Safeguarding our precious fauna & flora.
Drone technology could be used to regenerate trees
Drones could soon be utilised to scatter seeds from the air as part of bushfire recovery efforts (1:29 Minutes)
Cultural burning for bushfire management
Dr Michael-Shawn Fletcher from the University of Melbourne talks about cultural burning as a tool for bushfire management. (12:09 Minutes)
Fire-Ed Up
Due Date for 2023 Submission
November 24 at 11:59 AEST
Poster or 90-second video
Conclusion – November 24
A number of Year 9 & 10 teams will be selected for to pitch their ideas on December 1 at 2:00pm AEST online
