Back to Earth - Green Waste Survey

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Geography Year 5:

• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI095).
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI105).
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI104).

Geography Year 6:

• Locate and collect relevant information and data from primary and secondary sources (ACHASSI123).
• Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions (ACHASSI133).
• Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects (ACHASSI132).

Design and Technologies Year 5 & 6:

• Investigate how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019).
• Critique needs or opportunities for designing, and investigate materials, components, tools, equipment and processes to achieve intended designed solutions (ACTDEP024).

Syllabus Outcomes: GE3-4, ST3-14BE, ST3-15I, ST3-16P, ST3-5WT. 

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability – OI.8.

Time required: 3 x 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: High – oversee design and conducting of survey, assist with analysing and presenting survey data

• Survey design tips factsheet
• pen and paper or tablets
• camera (optional)

Following these lessons plans is an ideal way for your students and the community to tune in to what happens to green waste once it is collected in a kerbside bin. The Back to Earth initiative is about connecting people with what happens to green waste once it leaves the garden, how it is processed, what it is used for at the end of this cycle and why its important to put the right things into the bin! 
Join thousands of others who have learnt about the benefits of using their green waste service correctly, for their communities and for the planet. Don’t forget to check out the Back to Earth initiative website: www.backtoearth.vic.gov.au – to learn more.