War On Waste - Finding Out About Waste

In this lesson, students are introduced to key concepts of waste that will better help them understand Australia’s wider waste problems in further learning. They begin by sharing their existing knowledge of waste before working together to develop a class definition for waste. Students then sort and analyse a range of familiar waste items, working as a class to create a poster or graph describing the results of their categorisation. Finally, students are asked to think about what people can do with these waste materials.