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Design Factors to Consider

By incorporating different perspectives and learnings into design and considering all factors, designers can develop products that are valuable, functional and beautiful but can also have positive imp...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
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Designing for the Environment

Designing with a sustainability focus involves minimising impacts across a product's life cycle, using fewer parts, modular designs, and durable materials. By reusing materials, designing for repair,...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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Tools and Techniques for Iterative Learning

Designers can reduce negative impacts and maximise positive outcomes through the use of a range of tools and techniques that form part of a continuous, iterative learning process.
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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The Rs of Sustainability

The Sustainability Hierarchy, or the Rs of Sustainability, empower us to make eco-conscious choices at every stage of our product lifecycles, from refusing unnecessary items to recovering valuable res...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Recycling

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What Influences Our Consumption Habits?

The increase in our consumption of electronic products is influenced by factors like social networks, business demands, and the wealth of consumers. Understanding our habits is important to shift towa...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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The Value of Eco and Recycling Labels

Clear instructions and certifications for products and their packaging help us to actively participate in reducing impact and encouraging transparent practices to ensure consumers can easily understan...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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The E-Waste Crisis

Electrical and electronic waste, or e-waste, is one of the most rapidly increasing global waste streams in our world due to the take-make-waste model that much of society operates on. Exploring the e-...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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The 8 E-Product Categories

Electrical and electronic products, collectively referred to as e-products, form a diverse range of devices that are incredibly important to our daily lives. E-products can be anything from cables to...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Recycling
  • Sustainability
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How to be a Sustainable Consumer

Global frameworks, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals help us understand the challenges caused by unsustainable consumption and how collectively we can work to reduce the social...
  • Primary
  • Secondary
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Recycling
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Sustainable Solutions: Addressing the Impacts and Interconnections of Electronic Waste

These resources are part of the Geographies of Interconnections: Understanding E-Waste suite of resources, created in collaboration with Comsol. This Year 9 Geography unit, Sustainable Solutions: Addr...
  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Environmental
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Become a Changemaker for Sustainable Electronic Solutions

Students explore realistic local and global methodologies for reducing their e-footprint and put together a social media campaign focused on e-waste, utilising the knowledge they have gained during th...
  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Environmental
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Electronic Product Lifecycle: Consumption and Disposal

Students will use critical thinking skills to examine the life cycles of electronic devices and explore the 10 Rs of sustainability and how they can be applied to e-waste. Australian Curriculum (v9.0)...
  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Social

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