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ARL - Design and build a Materials Recovery Facility
Lesson4 of 8 in this unit
PrimaryYear 5 - 6ScienceTechnologyDesign and TechnologiesEnvironmentalRecycling
Lesson Summary
Students assume the role of a material scientist as they participate in hands-on investigations to sort and classify a range of items based on their properties. They work collaboratively, combining ideas to design a materials-sorting solution for a recycling facility and sharing their ideas with the class.
The lessons in this unit explore the purpose of the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) and how to translate this understanding into environmental action. We recommend this lesson be used as part of a sequence of learning within this unit.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- understand that materials have different properties
- identify if changes in materials are reversible or irreversible
Success criteria
Students can:
- explain that changes to materials can be reversible or irreversible
- identify, plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer questions and solve problems
- use equipment and materials safely and identify potential risks
- communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations using multimodality
- describe how scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions about recycling
- plan and safely carry out a scientific investigation
- apply scientific understandings to a design prototype and justify choices
- represent and communicate ideas
- describe how scientific knowledge helps us solve community problems
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