Containers for Change WA - Conscious Choices

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

• critical thinking
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• ethical understanding
• reflection

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 6, HASS

• The impact consumer purchasing decisions can have on a family, the broader community (e.g. purchasing from the local growers' market or a supermarket chain) and the environment (e.g. pollution, waste) (ACHASSK150)

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - HASS

• Students learn about influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 6 achievement standards: By the end of Year 6, students explain influences on consumers and strategies for informed consumer and financial choices. Students develop questions, and locate, collect and organise information and data from a range of primary and secondary sources. They evaluate sources to determine origin, purpose and perspectives. Students evaluate a range of information and data formats to identify and describe patterns, trends or inferred relationships. They evaluate evidence to draw conclusions. Students propose actions or responses and use criteria to assess the possible effects. Students select and organise ideas and findings from sources, and use a range of relevant terms and conventions, to present descriptions and explanations.

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 6, HASS

• The impact consumer purchasing decisions can have on a family, the broader community (e.g. purchasing from the local growers' market or a supermarket chain) and the environment (e.g. pollution, waste) (ACHASSK150)

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

• Target 12.1: Implement the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

• Device capable of displaying digital resources for students
• Digital device (one per student) to access resources
• Student worksheet (one per student)

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - some students may require support to interpret information, discern what is relevant and draw conclusions.