Containers for Change WA - Don't Feed the Fill

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

• creativity
• critical thinking
• communication
• community engagement
• ethical understanding

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 5, HASS

• Resources can be natural (e.g. oil), human (e.g. workers), or capital (e.g. machinery), and how these are used to make goods and services to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations. (ACHASSK120)
• Due to scarcity, choices need to be made about how limited resources are used (e.g. using the land to grow crops or to graze cattle) (ACHASSK119)

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - HASS

• Students learn about types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards:

Students explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. They explain the key values and features of Australia’s democracy and how people achieve civic goals. They explain the nature of resources and how they meet needs and wants.

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 5, HASS

• Resources can be natural (e.g. oil), human (e.g. workers), or capital (e.g. machinery), and how these are used to make goods and services to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations. (ACHASSK120)
• Due to scarcity, choices need to be made about how limited resources are used (e.g. using the land to grow crops or to graze cattle) (ACHASSK119)

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse.

• Article - Using Old Learnings For A New Thriving Economy (optional)
• Device to display videos and websites to the class
• Student worksheets: Glass Economy, Take Action on Glass, Indigenous Perspectives (one per student)

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - Teacher will show learning materials and facilitate class discussions. These discussions and resources provide the content knowledge for students to complete set tasks independently.