Primary
Our primary school program will increase students’ understanding of sustainability and recycling through game based learning. Our primary school program has been developed in partnership with Cool Australia. The unit contains six lessons for Years 3-6 and uses game based learning to increase students’ understanding of sustainability and recycling. The lessons provide links to the Humanities and Social Sciences, Design and Technology and Science curriculum and contain teacher and student worksheets.
Lessons Year 3 – 4: Resource extraction game
By playing a game in this lesson, students will understand the process of mining. This game is a hands-on experience that shows students the impacts of finding, extracting and transporting raw materials.
Lessons Year 3 – 4: Manufacturing a phone
To better understand and appreciate the environmental impact of creating a mobile phone, students will learn how raw materials are processed into components. They will then use components to build a mobile phone representation.
Lessons Year 3 – 4: Unmaking a phone
Students will investigate what impact mobile phones have on the environment. The students will journey through the recycling process with a hands-on dismantling and sorting activity.
Lessons Year 5 – 6: Circuits and phones
In this lesson, students use wires, batteries and light bulbs to learn what circuits are and how they work. Students will also learn how to read a circuit diagram, and use this information to find out how circuits and batteries power mobile phones.
Lessons Year 5 – 6: Inside a phone
In this lesson, students will investigate the conductivity of various materials and apply this understanding to the circuitry inside a mobile phone. They will learn what makes a mobile phone work and where the materials in a mobile phone come from.
Lessons Year 5 – 6: Phones of the future
In this lesson, students will investigate the conductivity of various materials and apply this understanding to the circuitry inside a mobile phone. They will learn what makes a mobile phone work and where the materials in a mobile phone come from.