MobileMuster - Phones Of The Future

Australian curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 5 & 6 – Design and Technology:

• Examine how people in design and technologies occupations address competing considerations, including sustainability in the design of products, services, and environments for current and future use (ACTDEK019).
• Investigate how electrical energy can control movement, sound or light in a designed product or system (ACTDEK020).
• Investigate characteristics and properties of a range of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment and evaluate the impact of their use (ACTDEK023).

Year 5 – Humanities and Social Sciences:

• The difference between needs and wants and why choices need to be made about how limited resources are used (ACHASSK119).
• Types of resources (natural, human, capital) and the ways societies use them to satisfy the needs and wants of present and future generations (ACHASSK120).
• Influences on consumer choices and methods that can be used to help make informed personal consumer and financial choices (ACHASSK121).

Year 6 – Humanities and Social Sciences:

• How the concept of opportunity cost involves choices about the alternative use of resources and the need to consider trade-offs (ACHASSK149).
• The effect that consumer and financial decisions can have on the individual, the broader community and the environment (ACHASSK150).
• The reasons businesses exist and the different ways they provide goods and services (ACHASSK151).

Year 6 – Science (Chemical and Physical):

• Changes to materials can be reversible or irreversible (ACSSU095)
• Electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits and can be generated from a range of sources (ACSSU097)

Syllabus outcomes: ST3-14BE, ST3-15I, ST3-16P, ST3-6PW, ST3-7PW, ST3-13MW, ST3-6PW, ST3-12MW

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical Understanding.

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Relevant parts of Year 5 & 6 achievement standards: 

Year 5 & 6 – Design and Technology:
Students critically examine technologies − materials, systems, components, tools and equipment − that are used regularly in the home and in local, national, regional or global communities, with consideration of society, ethics and social and environmental sustainability factors.

Year 5 – Humanities and Social Sciences:
Students investigate how the characteristics of environments are influenced by humans in different times and places, as they seek resources, settle in new places and manage the spaces within them.

Year 6 – Science:
They learn about transfer and transformations of electricity, and continue to develop an understanding of energy flows through systems.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work MobileMuster – Hands-on Mobile Phone Recycling – Years 3-6

Time required: 120 mins.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitate class discussion, support groups in developing their ideas.

• Student Worksheets – one copy per student
• Device capable of presenting a video to the class
• Pitch Perfect Factsheet – one between four students

• Collaboration
• Communication
• Enterprise
• Ethical understanding
• Global citizenship
• Leadership
• Problem solving

This lesson has been developed as part of Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week. Following this lesson plan is an ideal way for your school to take part in MobileMuster. You’ll be joining thousands of amazing teachers in making a difference and creating positive environmental change. Take part in the Schools Recycling Right Challenge for Planet Ark’s National Recycling Week. Register your lesson or other activities today!