Visy Education - Understanding the Waste Problem - Years 5 & 6

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Unit of work: Visy Education – Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems – Year 5 & 6.

Time required: 120 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – tasks within the Design Thinking unit are designed to encourage students to work independently and in groups to develop their own ideas and actions. The teacher will need to observe and monitor groups, conferencing when appropriate and providing support to interpret and present data and plan and implement actions.

• Device capable of presenting a video to the class.
• Design Thinking Workbook (one per student, retained from the previous lesson)
• Example Empathy Map
• Example poster

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

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Community engagement
• Critical thinking
• Empathy
• Ethical understanding
• Global citizenship
• Social skills

This lesson has been developed in partnership with Visy. For over 70 years Visy has been committed to finding sustainable solutions for Australia and New Zealand’s recyclables and helping to reduce local landfills. Visy collects, receives and sorts paper, cardboard, glass, plastics, steel and aluminium from households, businesses and schools with the purpose of reusing these products in the re-manufacture of new packaging products.