Activity: Flipped Classroom – Tuning into waste

Teacher Preparation

Overarching learning goal: Students take responsibility for their own learning by watching a video on waste and completing a thinking routine. 

Teacher content information: Recycling and reusing rubbish is the best way in which we can reduce landfill waste and conserve resources. It provides a way to manage solid waste while reducing pollution, conserving energy, creating jobs and building more competitive manufacturing industries.

Natural resources simply will not last forever. In Australia there are 20 billion fewer trees than when Europeans first settled here in 1788. Paper accounts for a large part of rubbish found in Australia. Paper rubbish is not only unsightly in the environment it can also be very harmful to animals and marine life, as can other forms of rubbish such as plastic and glass.

So, why is recycling important?

• Waste that is recycled can save a lot of energy. For example making glass from recycled material only requires 40% of the energy ne

Thought starter: Where does waste go?

When we talk about waste, rubbish, trash or whatever you want to call it, we’re talking about something that is in excess of our needs. Something we have created or bought that we no longer want.

The food and drinks we consume, the transport we use, the stuff we buy – everything has waste as a part of its production. Too often waste is not counted in the final cost – so products that create waste in their production are much cheaper than they should be when they get to us. 

Watch the video while filling in the table below (https://vimeo.com/77933477).