Closing the Loop: Building and Construction Waste

• Critical thinking
• Communication
• Community Engagement
• Digital Literacy
• Initiative
• Leadership

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:

Design and technology, English, Year 5 & 6

• explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (AC9TDE6K01).
• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, developing ideas using visual features, text structure appropriate to the topic and purpose, text connectives, expanded noun groups, specialist and technical vocabulary, and punctuation including dialogue punctuation (AC9E5LY06).
• plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features (AC9E6LY06).

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

General capabilities: Literacy

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards:

Students explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. They create written and/or multimodal texts, including literary texts, for particular purposes and audiences, developing and expanding on ideas with supporting details from topics or texts.

• board and pens
• device to show videos to the class
• devices for students to conduct online research
• student worksheets (1 per student)

Level of teacher scaffolding: medium - scaffold student discussion and research and support students to write letters.

This lesson was created in partnership with Planet Ark and BINGO Industries.

Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week started in 1996 to bring a national focus to the environmental benefits of recycling. This highly regarded annual campaign continues to educate and stimulate behaviour change by promoting kerbside, industrial and community recycling initiative. It also gives people the tools to minimise waste and manage material resources responsibly at home, work and school. In partnership with Planet Ark, we have developed lessons from early learning through to year 10 to help educators bring these important topics into the classroom.

National Recycling Week is held in the second week of November each year but you can recycle all year-round with these lessons which were designed to be used at any time. Click here to find out more about National Recycling Week and the Schools Recycle Right Challenge.