Designing for Behaviour Change

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

• communication
• prototyping
• ethical understanding
• creativity
• community engagement
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

HASS & Visual Arts:

Students learn:

• to use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA4C01).
• to propose actions or responses to an issue or challenge that consider possible effects of actions (AC9HS3S06).
• about sustainable use and management of renewable and non-renewable resources, including the custodial responsibility First Nations Australians have for Country/Place (AC9HS4K06).

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking

Syllabus outcomes: VAS2.3, VAS2.4, ST2-7MW-T

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. 

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 achievement standards:
Students describe the importance of environments, and sustainable allocation and management of resources. They propose considered actions or responses. They use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - teachers will need to facilitate students in planning and executing their chosen artwork, including sourcing resources and following up on copyright and permissions.

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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

• Creating Quality Content – Drawing information sheet
• Creating Quality Content – Filmmaking information sheet
• Creating Quality Content – Photography information sheet
• Materials for creating the students’ chosen artworks.

This activity has been developed in partnership with MobileMuster.

MobileMuster is the product stewardship program of the mobile phone industry and is accredited by the federal government. It is voluntarily funded by all of the major handset manufacturers and network carriers to provide a free mobile phone recycling program in Australia to the highest environmental standard. The program is committed to raising awareness and educating the community on why it is important to recycle.

Create Change That Lasts

Quick Summary: This course explores how to make a change initiative last longer - in your classroom, service, school or organisation.