Pupils at Frenchville and St Anthony's schools in Rockhampton will be solving a wide range of problems during September.

More than 90 second-year Bachelor of Learning Management students from Central Queensland University will visit classrooms to help implement the new Technology syllabus.

The new syllabus is not just about computers. In fact, information technology is just one small part of this approach to solving problems by design.

A focus on the environment has led some students to encourage bird life by building feeders, while others are designing mini-beast catchers and worm farms so they can capture and study small creatures.

Students who are going on camp soon will make recycled hessian bags to carry their drink bottles, sunscreen, eating utensils and toiletries.

Some of the Year 1 students will design something to make life easier for people who help them such as doctors, librarians, and ambulance officers.

Several classes will recognise current Olympic heroes and look forward to the Beijing Games with designs for T-shirts, chair bags, torches and uniforms.

BLM students will be at Frenchville on Tuesdays from 9am and 1.30pm for about one hour, and at St Anthony's on Wednesday afternoons from about 1.30pm.

Details are available from Jan Bulman on 4930 9585.