Electronic Product Lifecycle: Packaging and Distribution

Electronic Product Lifecycle: Packaging and Distribution

Lesson 4 of 6 in this unit

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
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Lesson summary

Students will explore the impact of the packaging of e-products. Students discover what the packaging is made of, the societal and environmental impacts associated with its production and disposal, and how the circular economy is utilised in this sector to produce more sustainable packaging solutions.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • explore the effects of the manufacturing and disposal of e-product packaging on people, places or environments
  • understand the environmental effects of the production and distribution of consumer product packaging

Success criteria:

Students can...

  • understand the life cycle and impacts of e-product packaging on the environment and people
  • understand the process of recycling and the circular economy on e-products packaging

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Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 Geography

  • The ways that place and people are interconnected with other places through trade in goods and services, at all scales (AC9HG9K07)
  • Impacts of the production and consumption of goods on places throughout the world, and strategies to manage sustainability in these places (AC9HG9K08)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding, 

Syllabus outcomes: GE4-3, GE5-3

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 9 Geography achievement standards:

Students can analyse the interconnections between people and places and environments. They identify and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and environments. Students analyse strategies to address a geographical phenomenon or challenge using environmental, social or economic criteria.

Skills

  • Critical Thinking
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
  • Curiosity
  • Digital Literacy
  • Ethical Understanding
  • Global Citizenship

UN Sustainable development goals

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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

Target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.

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Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - Facilitation of discussion.

This Closing the E-Loop unit has been developed in partnership with Comsol, a manufacturer, importer and distributor of electronics, who use a step-by-step approach to sustainability to establish a sustainable, environmental and socially supporting ecosystem for technology products and services. A key pillar of Comsol’s overarching framework is education. They believe that knowledge-sharing about the electronic waste crisis, sustainability and closed-loop solutions for electronic products provide opportunities for society to speed up the transition to a circular economy.

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