Visy Education - Aerosol Assault

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 9 Maths:

• Solve problems involving direct proportion. Explore the relationship between graphs and equations corresponding to simple rate problems (ACMNA208).

General capabilities: Numeracy, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.8.

Relevant parts of Year 9 Mathematics achievement standards: Students interpret ratio and scale factors in similar figures.

Unit of work: Visy Education – Secondary Mathematics.

Time required: 70 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – teachers will need to guide students through various parts of this lesson, particularly the introduction, to ensure students understand the background knowledge.

• Student Worksheets (one per student)
• Device capable of projecting images to the class
• Aluminium Factsheet
• Aluminium Recycling Process – Diagram
• Raw Materials Chart
• Empty or full deodorant can (or a few)
• Scales

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• Critical thinking
• Global citizenship
• Problem solving
• Social skills

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Visy. For over 70 years Visy has been committed to finding sustainable solutions for Australia and New Zealand’s recyclables and helping to reduce local landfills. Visy collects, receives and sorts paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, steel and aluminium from households, businesses and schools with the purpose of reusing these products in the re-manufacture of new packaging products.