Your Sustainable Smartphone (home learning)

Primary
Year 5 - 6
English
Science
Humanities and Social Sciences
The Arts
Environmental
Sustainability
Economic
Design Thinking
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
...

Lesson summary

Imagine you are the next Steve Jobs. You are working on a sustainable smartphone design that is going to change the world. First, you’ll research what’s already out there (to get a look-in on the competitors), then you’ll work on your own design.

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Student Worksheet

Curriculum links

Select your curriculum from the options below.

ACHASSK120

Types of resources (natural, human, capital) and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations

ACHASSK119

The difference between needs and wants and why choices need to be made about how limited resources are used

ACHASSK149

How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs

ACHASSK121

Influences on consumer choices and methods that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices

ACHEK053

Factors that influence major consumer and financial decisions and the short- and long-term consequences of these decisions

ACHASSI094

Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges

ACHASSI102

Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges

ACHASSI104

Reflect on learning to propose personal and/or collective action in response to an issue or challenge, and predict the probable effects

ACHASSI105

Present ideas, findings, viewpoints and conclusions in a range of texts and modes that incorporate source materials, digital and non-digital representations and discipline-specific terms and conventions

ACHHS183

Use historical terms and concepts

ACELY1702

Navigate and read texts for specific purposes applying appropriate text processing strategies, for example predicting and confirming, monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

ACELY1703

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

ACHASSK150

The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment

ACHASSK151

The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services

ACHASSI122

Develop appropriate questions to guide an inquiry about people, events, developments, places, systems and challenges

ACHCS068

Develop a range of questions to investigate Australia's political and legal systems

ACHASSI131

Use criteria to make decisions and judgements and consider advantages and disadvantages of preferring one decision over others

ACHASSI130

Work in groups to generate responses to issues and challenges

ACHASSI133

ACHCS088

Present evidence-based civics and citizenship arguments using subject-specific language

ACELY1712

Select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies and interpreting structural features, for example table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings

ACELY1713

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

AC9HE7K01

why opportunity cost exists as decisions are made to allocate limited resources to meet unlimited needs and wants

AC9HE10K03

factors that influence major consumer and financial decisions, and the short- and long-term consequences of these decisions

AC9HS5S01

develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems

AC9HS5S06

propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects

AC9HS5S07

present descriptions and explanations, drawing ideas, findings and viewpoints from sources, and using relevant terms and conventions

AC9E5LY04

navigate and read texts for specific purposes, monitoring meaning using strategies such as skimming, scanning and confirming

AC9E5LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas

AC9HS6K08

influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices

AC9HE8K03

how First Nations Australian businesses and entrepreneurs develop opportunities in the market

AC9HS6S01

develop questions to investigate people, events, developments, places and systems

AC9HS6S06

propose actions or responses to issues or challenges and use criteria to assess the possible effects

AC9HC9S05

create descriptions, explanations and arguments using civics and citizenship knowledge, concepts and terms that incorporate evidence

AC9E6LY04

select, navigate and read texts for a range of purposes, monitoring meaning and evaluating the use of structural features; for example, table of contents, glossary, chapters, headings and subheadings

AC9E7LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas

MA5-FIN-C-02

solves financial problems involving compound interest and depreciation

CO5-DEC-01

investigates and assesses factors affecting decisions

VCCCG002

Identify how and why decisions are made democratically in communities

VCEBR001

Describe the difference between needs and wants and explain why choices need to be made

VCEBR002

Explore the concept of opportunity cost and explain how it involves choices about the alternative use of limited resources and the need to consider trade-offs

VCGGK138

Challenges in feeding the current and projected populations of Australia and the world, and responses to these challenges

VCELY318

Navigate and read imaginative, informative and persuasive texts by interpreting structural features, including tables of content, glossaries, chapters, headings and subheadings and applying appropriate text processing strategies, including monitoring meaning, skimming and scanning

VCELY319

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

VCEBC004

Identify influences on consumer choices and explore strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices

VCEBC005

Consider the effect that the consumer and financial decisions of individuals may have on themselves, their family, the broader community and the natural, economic and business environment

VCELY346

Select, navigate and read increasingly complex texts for a range of purposes, applying appropriate text processing strategies to recall information and consolidate meaning

VCELY288

Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts

VCELY347

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

Curriculum mapping

Curriculum codes:

Year 5:

Year 6:

Ideal for: Upper Primary Ages 10 – 12

Themes:

investigate
be creative

Time required: 40 minutes

Curriculum connections: Science, English, Visual Arts, Humanities, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, Sustainability

Resources required

Art supplies: coloured pencils, pens, paint, coloured paper, glue, scissors
White paper
Writing pen or pencil

Additional info

Learning@Home resources are designed for parents and teachers to use with children in the home environment. They can be used as stand-alone activities or built into existing curriculum-aligned learning programs. Our Learning@Home series includes two types of resources. The first are fun and challenging real-world activities for all ages, the second are self-directed lessons for upper primary and secondary students. These lessons support independent learning in remote or school settings.

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