MobileMuster - Manufacturing A Phone

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 3 – English:

• Students understand how different types of texts vary in use of language choices, depending on their purpose and context (for example, tense and types of sentences) (ACELA1478)
• Students understand that paragraphs are a key organisational feature of written texts (ACELA1479)

Year 4 – English:

• Students understand how adverb groups/phrases and prepositional phrases work in different ways to provide circumstantial details about an activity (ACELA1495)
• Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research (ACELA1498)

Year 4 – Humanities and Social Sciences:

• The use and management of natural resources and waste, and the different views on how to do this sustainably (ACHASSK090)

Years 3&4 – Design and Technologies:

• Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs (ACTDEK010)
• Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system (ACTDEK011)
• Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013)

Year 4 – Science:

• Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence their use (ACSSU074)

Syllabus outcomes: EN2-8B, EN2-9B, GE2-2, GE2-3, ST2-11LW, ST2-14BE, ST2-15I , ST2-16P, ST2-13MW

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 3 & 4 achievement standards: 

Year 4 – Humanities and Social Sciences:
Students examine the concept of sustainability, and its application to resource use and waste management, past and present, by different groups.

Years 3 & 4 – Design and Technologies:
Students examine social and environmental sustainability implications of existing products and processes to raise awareness of their place in the world.

Year 4 – Science:
Students broaden their understanding of classification and form and function through an exploration of the properties of natural and processed materials.

Unit of work: MobileMuster – Hands-on Mobile Phone Recycling – Years 3-6

Time required: 90 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – Teacher will need to provide support and scaffolding for activities

• Student Worksheets (one per student)
• A device capable of presenting videos to the class
• Parts Of A Phone to project to the class
• Blank paper and pens/pencils
• Four buckets or containers with labels (see Part C preparation)
• ‘When We Mine‘ ebook to project to the whole class
• Hot Potato Question Sheets (one per group of approx 4 students)
• Scorecard (one per group of approx 4 students)
• Enough old mobile phones for groups of four students to have one each OR a class set of the Paper Phone Worksheet.

Note: If you choose to collect your own phones follow these instructions to deconstruct, How to Take Apart a Phone

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Enterprise
• Ethical understanding
• Problem solving

This lesson has been developed as part of Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week. Following this lesson plan is an ideal way for your school to take part in MobileMuster. You’ll be joining thousands of amazing teachers in making a difference and creating positive environmental change. Take part in the Schools Recycling Right Challenge for Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week. Register your lesson or other activities today!