A Sustainable World

  • Level: Year 3 to Year 6
  • Duration: 60 or 90 minutes (90 minutes recommended)
  • Numbers: Maximum of 30 students per workshop
  • State: VIC
  • Price
    60 min: $450
    90 min: $560

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Explore how human actions have placed the earth’s resources under immense strain. Learn how we can manage waste and the earth’s life-sustaining resources to build a better future for all. Students discover clean, green energy and engage in generating usable electricity to illuminate lights and run a fan. Let’s work together to make a positive impact in the world!

Activities

  • Students conduct an experiment to model the greenhouse effect. They measure and record changes in temperature over a period of time, then collate and discuss their results. Students gain a clear understanding of the role the ozone layer plays in regulating the Earth’s temperature.
  • Students conduct an experiment with biodegradable packaging material to observe how it dissolves and breaks down compared to non-biodegradable packaging.
  • Demonstration and group discussion about the impact that plastic has on our environment.
  • Students explore different ways of generating energy that reduce environmental impact.
  • Students learn about clean, green energy and observe how movement energy can be transformed into other forms of energy.
  • Students construct and test a hand-powered generator to produce usable electricity, lighting globes and powering fans.

90 minute workshops also include these activities:

  • Students work in pairs to create a mini greenhouse and plant seed samples under different conditions, exploring how temperature and humidity affect plant growth.
  • Students explore the impact that plastic has on our environment, including microplastics.

Learning Outcomes

  • The ozone layer plays an important role in regulating the temperature of the Earth.
  • Plant growth is affected by temperature and humidity.
  • Material choices have a huge impact on the world we live in.
  • Humans can reuse, recycle and reduce.
  • Materials behave differently when interacting with the environment.
  • Microplastics have a huge impact on our environment.
  • Generating energy that lessens the environmental impact.
  • How clean energy is generated.
  • Discoveries are constantly being made that can help lessen our environmental impact.
Victorian Curriculum Links
  • Data from observations obtained through scientific inquiry can be used to develop explanations of natural phenomena (VC2S4H01)
  • Scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by people to explain how they will meet a need or solve a problem (VC2S4H02)
  • The properties of natural and made materials, including fibres, metals, glass and plastics, influence their use and re-use (VC2S4U05)
  • Weather events and climate have impacts on the land, air, water and living things; human activity can affect climate (VC2S4U08)
  • Observations, including formal measurements, can be made and recorded by following procedures to use familiar scaled instruments and digital tools as appropriate (VC2S4I03)
  • Data and information can be organised and represented to identify patterns and simple relationships by constructing tables, graphs and visual or physical models (VC2S4I04)
  • Scientific knowledge changes over time, often resulting from collaboration or by building on the work of others, and leads to advances in science (VC2S6H01)
  • Scientific knowledge, skills and data can be used by individuals and communities to identify problems, consider responses and make decisions (VC2S6H02)
  • Habitats can be described by their physical conditions; changing the physical conditions of a habitat, including by human activity, may affect the growth and survival of organisms (VC2S6U01)
  • Materials may be electrical insulators or conductors; energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits where the components of a circuit play particular roles in the function of the circuit (VC2S6U09)
  • Equipment can be used to observe, generate, measure and record data with reasonable precision for repeated measurements, using digital tools as appropriate (VC2S6I03)