Visy Education - To Bin or Not To Bin

Australian curriculum content descriptions:

Year 7 Maths:

• Find percentages of quantities and express one quantity as a percentage of another, with and without digital technologies (ACMNA158).

Year 8 Maths:

• Solve problems involving the use of percentages, including percentage increases and decreases, with and without digital technologies (ACMNA187).

Year 9 Maths:

• Identify everyday questions and issues involving at least one numerical and at least one categorical variable, and collect data directly and from secondary sources (ACMSP228).

Year 10 Maths:

• Evaluate statistical reports in the media and other places by linking claims to displays, statistics and representative data (ACMSP253).

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability OI.8.

Relevant parts of Year 7 Mathematics achievement standards: Students solve problems involving percentages and all four operations with fractions and decimals.

Relevant parts of Year 8 Mathematics achievement standards: Students solve everyday problems involving rates, ratios and percentages.

Relevant parts of Year 9 Mathematics achievement standards: Students compare techniques for collecting data from primary and secondary sources.

Relevant parts of Year 10 Mathematics achievement standards: Students evaluate statistical reports.

Unit of work: Visy Education – Secondary Mathematics.

Time required: 80 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Teacher will need to facilitate class discussion and provide additional information.

• Student Worksheets (one copy per student)
• Device capable of playing a video to the class and projecting images/quotes
• Recycle Paper and Cardboard Poster
• Recycle Plastic Bottles and Containers Poster
• Recycle Steel and Aluminium Poster
• Recycle Glass Bottles and Jars Poster
• Resource Recovery and Recycling Rates – Australia graph (optional)

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.