Consumption and Sustainable Design
SecondaryYear 7 - 8EnglishMathematicsScienceHumanities and Social SciencesGeographyBusiness and EconomicsTechnologyDesign and TechnologiesEnvironmentalBiodiversitySustainability
This unit is designed for a flipped classroom where students explore sustainable consumption and design. In the first activity, students read the Dairy Diaries and create quiz questions before working in groups to create an infographic comparing conventional and organic/biodynamic dairy farming. In the second activity, students investigate planned obsolescence and recreate a more sustainable design of a product. In the third activity, students create a presentation on the concept of embodied energy in house design.
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Explicit instruction on the topic, increasing in complexity and breadth of knowledge.
SecondaryYear 7 - 8EnglishTechnologyDesign and Technologies
SecondaryYear 7 - 8Humanities and Social SciencesBusiness and EconomicsTechnology
SecondaryYear 7 - 8MathematicsScienceTechnology