Consumption and Sustainable Design

Consumption and Sustainable Design

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Geography
  • Business and Economics
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainability
  • ...

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.

  • Lesson
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Sustainable Table - The Dairy Diaries

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • English
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Lesson
  • ...

Planned obsolescence

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Business and Economics
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Lesson
  • ...

Embodied energy in building materials

  • Secondary
  • Year 7 - 8
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Energy
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