Containers for Change WA - We Can Get By with a Little Help from a Can

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

• adaptability
• creativity
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• ethical understanding

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 5, HASS

• Why people work in groups to achieve their aims and functions, and exercise influence, such as volunteers who work in community groups (e.g. rural fire services, emergency services, youth groups) (ACHASSK118)
• The difference between needs and wants, and how they may differ between individuals (ACHASSK119)
• Resources can be natural (e.g. oil), human (e.g. workers), or capital (e.g. machinery), and how these are used to make goods and services to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations (ACHASSK120)

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content descriptions - HASS

Students learn…

• how citizens (members of communities) with shared beliefs and values work together to achieve a civic goal (AC9HS5K07) 
• about types of resources, including natural, human and capital, and how they satisfy needs and wants (AC9HS5K08)

General capabilities: Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 5 achievement standards: Students explain the influence of people on the characteristics of places and in the management of spaces. Students explain the key values and features of Australia’s democracy and how people achieve civic goals. They explain the nature of resources, and how they meet needs and wants.

Western Australian Curriculum - Year 5, HASS

• Why people work in groups to achieve their aims and functions, and exercise influence, such as volunteers who work in community groups (e.g. rural fire services, emergency services, youth groups) (ACHASSK118)
• The difference between needs and wants, and how they may differ between individuals (ACHASSK119)
• Resources can be natural (e.g. oil), human (e.g. workers), or capital (e.g. machinery), and how these are used to make goods and services to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations (ACHASSK120)

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns.

• Target 12.7: Promote public procurement practices that are sustainable, in accordance with national policies and priorities.

• Device to display videos and digital resources
• Large poster paper
• Fundraising with Containers worksheet (one per student)
• Ambitious Containers worksheet (one per student)

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low - skills and process that students need to apply are modelled explicitly by the teacher before independent work time.