
War on Waste - Teaching Primary Maths with Waste Audits
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Course Summary
Course Content

Getting Started
About this course
Set some learning goals

Landfill and Recycling Waste
Mathematics education
Using War On Waste to teach mathematics
About landfill waste
About recycling waste
Analysing waste bills
Measuring waste in bins and skips
Graphing your findings

Litter
Journey to the ocean
Your school's litter
Measuring and collecting litter data

Take Action
Taking learning further
Using creativity to solve waste problems
Using your maths learning to drive change
Involving others

Your Teaching
Cool lesson plans - landfill and recycling
Cool lesson plans - litter

Reflection
Reflection
Taxonomy of learning
Suggestions for collaboration
Congratulations
Course Writer

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!