What is Fast Fashion?

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

• critical thinking
• communication

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 8 Economics and Business:

• How markets influence decisions about the allocation of resources to the production of goods and services, and the effect of prices on these decisions (AC9HE8K01)
• Interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues, trends and economic cause-and-effect relationships (AC9HE8S03)

Relevant parts of Year 8 Economics and Business achievement standards:  Students develop a range of questions to investigate an economic and business issue. They interpret information and data to identify economic and business issues and trends, and describe economic cause-and-effect relationships.

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

UN SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

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

• Device capable of sharing a YouTube video
• Computer or device to conduct research
• Online Search Strategies (optional)
• Student Worksheet

This is a Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: High - this lesson will require the teacher to introduce terms, scaffold discussion and support research. Ideally, the teacher will have previewed some of the websites that students will likely use during the course of the research component of the lesson.

Create a Culture for Change (Cool+)

Quick Summary: This course will help you to tackle the tricky changes we can make for a better world, and how to guide students through this process as well.