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Work through this resource material in the following sequence:

10 minutes

Part A: Activating Prior Knowledge

10 minutes

Part B: Project Planning

60 minutes

Part C: Analysis And Discussion

10 minutes

Reflection

Part A: Activating Prior Knowledge

Step 1

Explain to students that they will start by viewing the following short film “The Story of Solutions” (also available here: www.storyofstuff.org). The overarching message of this video is that we can all take action to make our world a more sustainable place, economically, socially and environmentally. It is part of a series that started with the video called “The Story of Stuff” which you might also find useful. During the video, the concept of the “Sharing Economy” is first mentioned at 5:07 and “Collaborative Consumption is explained at 7:29. The video is 9:06 minutes long.

The Story of Solutions (https://youtu.be/cpkRvc-sOKk)

Step 2

Once complete, engage students in a discussion around the following questions:

How would you define these concepts presented in the film?
- “game changer”
- “sharing economy”
- “collaborative consumption”
Have you heard of any examples of collaborative consumption?
Are there any that take place here at school (e.g. the library)?
How could having a local collaborative consumption activity at your school work to your economic benefit?

Part B: Project Planning

Step 1

Break students in groups of 8 to 10. Ask each group to design a collaborative consumption project for your school. These could be actions such as holding a swap shop, a car-boot sale, a repair and re-purpose day, or a community clean up.

The aim of the activity is for students to share “goods” (items) and/or "services" (knowledge, skills, time) with each other and reduce wastage of physical things, time, money, knowledge and experience. Encourage students to think outside the box but ensure that the details are clear, achievable and measurable.

Students should use the Student Worksheet to plan their events.

There are many different activities that students can do to achieve this outcome. The collaborative consumption movement is very creative, as can be seen by visiting the website: Unashamedly Creative

Part C: Analysis And Discussion

Step 1

Review the events proposed by the class. Ask students to vote for the event that they think is achievable. Work as a class to run your school collaborative consumption event, using the event planning already prepared by the group.

Step 2

Using the Student Worksheet, ask students to do a SWOT analysis about how their school collaborative consumption event went.

Reflection

Invite students to work independently to think about their project and complete the following:

What was the best bit about our project? What am I most proud of?
What was the most challenging part of this project? How did we overcome this challenge?
How successful was our project? What could we do to improve it?
What opportunities are there for extending this project in the future?

Taking It Further

Imagine sharing the idea with the world: In this part of the activity students will imagine that their school-based swap meet is ready to go global, and that they have an online platform to launch the idea. They are on the marketing and communications team of this new collaborative consumption website. Their task is to design a media campaign which shows the social, economic and environmental benefits of using their collaborative consumption platform. Encourage students to consider:

What other collaborative consumption platforms are already out there?
What is the message they really want to convey to the wider public – why should people use their service?
What are the benefits of collaborative consumption?

Teacher Reflection

Take this opportunity to reflect on your own teaching

What did you learn about your teaching today?
What worked well?
What didn't work so well?
What would you share?
Where to next?
How are you going to get there?

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