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Eco-Rabbits

We are the Eco-Rabbits, from Lockmar Elementary. Avelene, Emmy, Eva, and Mattie, the engineers of the Eco-Rabbits, rabbit hutch. Our design was built using recycled pallets, screws, hinges, latches, hard work and A LOT of love.

Species Overview

Common Name: rabbit, hair, or bunny

Scientific Name: Oryctolagus cuniculus domestics

Adult weight: six pounds

Child weight: 3-4 oz, and by 8-9 weeks weigh 5 lbs.

Behavior: Rabbits can be very playful sometimes, though sometimes when they are tired they will want their own space to sleep.

Food: Normally carrots are a very popular food for rabbits but its not always healthy for them, this is what they eat on a daily basis: Pellets, hay, lettuce, fruit, and vegetables.

Treats: Grapes, carrots, blackberries, blueberries, dandelion, bananas, and apple seeds.

Bedding: Aspen, hay, rabbit litter, shredded paper, an old towel, pellets, cellulose, cat litter, and card board.

What you should use for making a home: Wood, plastic, marble, bricks, fence, or a cave

What to put inside: A bucket, bowl, something to climb or play on, and mini balls to chew on or hay

Supplies: We chose to use recycled pallets to build our rabbit hutch. This helps the environment by using recycled material.

Special Features: Our hutch has a door, a ramp and a partial removable floor. When it is time to clean, remove the floor and allow debris to fall to the ground, then rake or sweep for easy clean up!

during this time we started building our hut for the little critter
here we started to sand the wood
this is when we started to take out our nails from the wood before building
Teammates sanding
when doing this another team needed to help us hold the wood down
this is when multiple people who were from other groups decided to help more and it went a lot quicker for us
Beginning assembling the frame.
our teammate being funny
The frame for the front of the and back of the rabbit enclosure.
Ms. Lucas’ helping cut our measured boards.
Teamwork to drill in the screws.
We built muscles while screwing in the boards.
Planning the ramp for our bunny.
Marketing collaboration.

Community Partners:

Today we got to explore and learn at The Home Depot on Malabar. They took us on a tour of the the different areas, explained how they work together to help customers, and how to use tools safely. At the end we were able to make our own pinball machine. Thank you Home Depot for supporting our project.

this is when we went on our home depot trip and learned about painting
here is when the employee showed us how she did her job by looking for the paint
She’s showing us how she takes the orders and mix colors. All paint starts as white, then colors are added.
this is when the whole group drilled through the cement
a few were struggling to push it through but once it gets to the last one it went really quick
almost everyone picked the larger drill while a few stuck with the small one
here we are heading towards the end of the drilling while it the last person to go
here we were close to finish but no quite done
this is our group photos while the workers and students
here everyone started painting the pin ball machines
some where a little behind building and painting

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