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National Recycling Week - Upcycling Timber
PrimaryYear 3 - 4TechnologyDesign and TechnologiesEnvironmentalRecyclingSustainabilityEconomicDesign Thinking
Lesson Summary
Students use design thinking to empathise with an audience and define their needs to inform their eventual upcycled timber design. Students then use the needs of the identified user to ideate and prototype a design.
Learning intentions
Students will:
- create a solution to avoid timber going to landfill
- understand how to improve the sustainability of building materials through the example of upcycling timber.
Success criteria
Students can:
- choose and justify materials and features for a design addressing the needs of an identified user
- critically evaluate and reflect on their work.
Lesson Guides and Printables
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