Designing for Sustainability Part 1

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

• communication
• global citizenship
• ethical understanding
• community engagement
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:

Year 7 & 8 Design and Technologies:

Students will:

• analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments (AC9TDE8K01)
• analyse the impact of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures (AC9TDE8K02)

General capabilities: Literacy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Syllabus outcomes: DT4-3, DT4-5

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards:Students explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitating class discussions and guiding research activities

Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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

• Assessment Matrix
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Student worksheets – one copy per student
• Sustainability Factsheet (optional)

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