Week 5: Education for Sustainability
Figure 1: Margaret Mead quote (Genius Quotes, 2014). As we continue on with our CCE unit in Year 5 students will participate in Education for Sustainability (EfS). Our focus of EfS will be recycling plastic. This topic is vital for students to learn about as plastic is our ocean’s biggest threat, with over 268,940 tonnes of litter floating in the Earth’s oceans (Australian Marine Conservation Society, 2018). Key questions about recycling will be asked to spark curiosity and concern (see table 1). Key Questions Where does the rubbish I throw away end up? How does my rubbish affect those who live there? What sorts of things can be recycled? How do we recycle at school/home? Table 1: Key Questi...