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Where does our waste go?

Where does our waste go?

Lesson 13 of 13 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • English
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Sustainability
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Lesson summary

Students are asked to research what happens to the waste that is produced from schools and homes in their local area. They then produce a chart showing the pathway of the different types of waste.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • understand that waste is everybody’s responsibility
  • recognise that different forms of waste are disposed of in different ways.

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  • AU V8.4
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  • VIC

ACELY1700

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements

ACELY1703

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

ACSHE083

Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions

ACSIS093

Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts

ACELY1667

Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics

ACELY1710

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis

ACELY1751

Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements to influence a course of action

ACELY1713

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

ACELY1714

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

ACELY1715

Re-read and edit students’ own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

ACELY1717

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

ACSHE100

Scientific knowledge is used to solve problems and inform personal and community decisions

ACSIS148

Communicate ideas, findings and evidence based solutions to problems using scientific language, and representations, using digital technologies as appropriate

ACELY1706

Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic

ACSIS071

Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal representations

ACSIS110

Communicate ideas, explanations and processes using scientific representations in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts

AC9E5LY07

plan, create, rehearse and deliver spoken and multimodal presentations that include relevant, elaborated ideas, sequencing ideas and using complex sentences, specialist and technical vocabulary, pitch, tone, pace, volume, and visual and digital features

AC9E5LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas

AC9S4H02

consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem

AC9S5I06

write and create texts to communicate ideas and findings for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of language features, using digital tools as appropriate

AC9E2LY07

create, rehearse and deliver short oral and/or multimodal presentations for familiar audiences and purposes, using text structure appropriate to purpose and topic-specific vocabulary, and varying tone, volume and pace

AC9E7LY05

use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring, questioning and inferring to analyse and summarise information and ideas

AC9E6LY06

plan, create, edit and publish written and multimodal texts whose purposes may be imaginative, informative and persuasive, using paragraphs, a variety of complex sentences, expanded verb groups, tense, topic-specific and vivid vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and visual features

AC9S6H02

investigate how scientific knowledge is used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions

AC9S7I08

write and create texts to communicate ideas, findings and arguments for specific purposes and audiences, including selection of appropriate language and text features, using digital tools as appropriate

EN2-OLC-01

communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting

EN2-CWT-01

plans, creates and revises written texts for imaginative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-02

plans, creates and revises written texts for informative purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

EN2-CWT-03

plans, creates and revises written texts for persuasive purposes, using text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language for a target audience

SCLS-WS-07

identifies problems and strategies that can be used to solve them

SC4-OTU-01

explains how observations are used by scientists to increase knowledge and understanding of the Universe

SC4-DA1-01

explains how data is used by scientists to model and predict scientific phenomena

SCLS-GEV-01

identifies personal genetic traits

EN3-CWT-01

plans, creates and revises written texts for multiple purposes and audiences through selection of text features, sentence-level grammar, punctuation and word-level language

ENLS-ECA-02

composes texts using language conventions for specific purposes and audiences

VCELY338

Participate in informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements

VCELY319

Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources

VCELY245

Rehearse and deliver short presentations on familiar and new topics, speaking clearly and varying tone, volume and pace appropriately, and using supportive props

VCELY367

Participate in formal and informal debates and plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis

VCELY347

Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts

VCELY230

Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose

VCELY194

Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements

VCELY358

Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience

VCELY359

Reread and edit own and others’ work using agreed criteria and explaining editing choices

VCELY361

Use a range of software, including word processing programs, learning new functions as required to create texts

VCSSU073

Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives

VCELY331

Develop a handwriting style that is becoming legible, fluent and automatic

Lesson details

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Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 5 English:

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations for defined audiences and purposes incorporating accurate and sequenced content and multimodal elements (ACELY1700).
  • Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources (ACELY1703).

Year 5 Science:

  • Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions (ACSHE083).
  • Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts (ACSIS093).

Year 6 English:

  • Plan, rehearse and deliver presentations, selecting and sequencing appropriate content and multimodal elements for defined audiences and purposes, making appropriate choices for modality and emphasis (ACELY1710).
  • Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information and ideas, comparing content from a variety of textual sources including media and digital texts (ACELY1713).
  • Plan, draft and publish imaginative, informative and persuasive texts, choosing and experimenting with text structures, language features, images and digital resources appropriate to purpose and audience (ACELY1714).

Year 6 Science:

  • Scientific knowledge is used to inform personal and community decisions (ACSHE100).
  • Communicate ideas, explanations and processes in a variety of ways, including multi-modal texts (ACSIS110).

Syllabus Outcome: ST3-6PW, ST3-4WS, EN3-1A, EN3-2A, EN3-3A. 

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  • Writing materials
  • Computer with internet access

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