MobileMuster - Designing for Behaviour Change

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

HASS & Visual Arts:

Students learn:

• to use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to plan and create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning (AC9AVA6C01).
• types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08).
• influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (AC9HS6K08).

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Critical and Creative Thinking

Syllabus outcomes: ST2-2DP-T, VAS3.2, VAS3.3

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards:
Students explain influences on consumers and strategies for informed consumer and financial choices. They explain the nature of resources and how they meet needs and wants. They describe how artworks created across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning.

• Creating Quality Content – Drawing
• Creating Quality Content – Film Making
• Creating Quality Content – Photography
• Resources for students to create their chosen artwork.

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

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

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.

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.