Lesson summary
This lesson is one of 3 lessons for Years 5 & 6, designed to support you and your students to produce quality behaviour change artwork for the MobileMuster Schools Competition, with the aim of encouraging the community to recycle more of their old and unused mobile phones. The 2023 MobileMuster Schools Competition is open, and the theme is ‘Inspiring Recycling Action’. For information about the Schools Competition, visit the MobileMuster website.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- be able to examine behaviour change media and identify characteristic features used to convey the message
- propose their own theme for tackling behaviour change.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- create a theme for behaviour change media based on their previous elevator pitches
- identify elements of artworks used to communicate ideas.
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Curriculum mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions:
HASS & Visual Arts:
Students learn:
to explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts (AC9AVA6E01).
about types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08).
how citizens (members of communities) with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal (AC9HS5K07).
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.
Resources required
- Behaviour Change slide deck
- Creating Quality Content – Drawing
- Creating Quality Content – Film Making
- Creating Quality Content – Photography
- device to show online videos to the class.
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- communication
- global citizenship
- ethical understanding
- creativity
- community engagement
- reflection.
Additional info
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and guide planning and theme creation.
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.
Related professional learning
Quick Summary: This course explores how to make a change initiative last longer - in your classroom, service, school or organisation.
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