Exploring the Systems We Live In

SecondaryYear 7 - 8Humanities and Social SciencesGeographyEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSustainabilitySocialSocial Action

Lesson Summary

Students will explore and propose sustainable strategies for enhancing a place's liveability by analysing a local product, business or corporation. They will view videos from the feature documentary Future Council, investigate different systems, and explore businesses that operate in regenerative and/or circular systems.

Learning intentions

Students will:

explore the concept of the circular economy and its impact on sustainability
understand how strategies can be used to promote environmental action and awareness.

Success criteria

Students can:

explain the principles of the circular economy and its benefits
analyse how sustainable strategies can influence individual and collective action.

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Lesson Details

Cool.org acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live, learn and work, and pays respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Cool celebrates the world's oldest living culture and acknowledges that sovereignty was never ceded.

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