Visy Education - Understanding the Waste Problem

This lesson forms part of a Design Thinking Unit in which students identify issues relating to recycling, build an understanding of the impact that not recycling can have in their own community, work to find and prototype a solution, then take action in their community that addresses the issues they have identified. In this lesson, students will gather information about habits and attitudes in order to build empathy with their school community. They will complete surveys, interviews, observations and audits planned in a previous lesson and then discuss, analyse and share their findings. Students will begin to develop ideas for action based on the information they have gathered in the next lesson.