Designing Phones of the Future

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

• collaboration
• communication
• enterprise
• ethical understanding
• global citizenship
• leadership
• problem solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions

Year 5 & 6 Design and Technology:

• explain how people in design and technology occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments (AC9TDE6K01)
• explain how electrical energy can be transformed into movement, sound or light in a product or system (AC9TDE6K02)
• explain how characteristics and properties of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment affect their use when producing designed solutions. (AC9TDE6K05)

Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences:

• types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants. (AC9HS5K08)

Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences:

• influences on consumer choices and strategies that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices. (AC9HS6K08)

Relevant parts of Years 5 & 6 achievement standards: 

Year 5 & 6 Design and Technology: Students can explain how people design products, services and environments to meet the needs of communities, including sustainability. Students can explain how the features of technologies impact on design decisions and they create designed solutions.

Year 5 Humanities and Social Sciences: Students can explain the nature of resources, and how they meet needs and wants.

Year 6 Humanities and Social Sciences: Students can explain influences on consumers and strategies for informed consumer and financial choices.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: GE3-3

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate discussion and group work.

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns 

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

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class

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How to Teach Sustainability with Hope

Quick Summary: This course is for both primary and secondary teachers of all subjects, but especially for English, Science, Humanities and Geography teachers who are covering climate change and the cross-curriculum priority of sustainability.