Creative Sustainability - Permaculture Case Study

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 7 & 8 Design and Technologies:

• Analyse how food and fibre are produced when designing managed environments and how these can become more sustainable (ACTDEK032) 
• Investigate the ways in which products, services and environments evolve locally, regionally and globally and how competing factors including social, ethical and sustainability considerations are prioritised in the development of technologies and designed solutions for preferred futures (ACTDEK029)
• Use project management processes when working individually and collaboratively to coordinate production of designed solutions (ACTDEP039)

Year 9 & 10 Design and Technologies:

• Critically analyse factors, including social, ethical and sustainability considerations, that impact on designed solutions for global preferred futures and the complex design and production processes involved (ACTDEK040)
• Investigate and make judgments on the ethical and sustainable production and marketing of food and fibre (ACTDEK044)
• Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions against comprehensive criteria for success recognising the need for sustainability (ACTDEP051)

Syllabus outcomes: D&T5.3.1, D&T5.3.2, D&T5.3.2 and SC4-13ES, T4.1.2, T4.1.3, T4.4.1, T4.6.2

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards: Students explain how social, ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of innovative and enterprising solutions to meet a range of present and future needs. They explain how the features of technologies influence design and production decisions. Students explain a range of needs, opportunities or problems and define them in terms of functional requirements and constraints. 

Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students explain how people working in design and technologies occupations consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to produce products, services and environments. They identify the changes necessary to designed solutions to realise preferred futures they have described.

Unit of work: Creative Sustainability – Exploring Permaculture – Design & Technology – Years 7 – 10

Time required: 60+ mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion

• Students’ workbooks. Equipment to show a short clip
• Case Study – Permaculture Project In Zanzibar – one copy per student
• Student Worksheet – one copy per student
• Optional – Permaculture Ethics And Principles
• Optional – Case Study- Permaculture Project In Australia

• Community engagement
• Creativity
• Critical thinking
• Enterprise
• Ethical understanding
• Global citizenship
• Problem solving

Faber-Castell has long understood the importance of creativity to all people, especially to young people. It is also continuously searching for environmentally friendly processes and high-quality materials to enhance children’s creative experience throughout every development phase. For more information about Faber-Castell, click here.