The sustainable management of waste from production and consumption (ACHGK025)

Humanities and Social Sciences / Geography / Year 4 / Geographical Knowledge and Understanding TERM 3 2014
Content description
The sustainable management of waste from production and consumption
Elaborations
describing how natural processes can break down and recycle some wastes safely, for example, through composting
exploring different ways of managing wastes sustainably, and how these may include the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle and replace





Students develop
geographical questions
about waste management.

Students identify and
describe the
interconnections between
people and the
environment.

Students recognise the
importance of the
environment.


Know

Identify some sustainable ways waste is
managed.




I can identify different waste management
companies in Moreton Bay Region and how
they individually manage waste. I
understand that humans have an impact on
the environments and I can make a
difference.

Understand

Natural processes can break down and recycle
wastes safely through composting







I can identify the stages of composting and
how composting can be managed to process
rich organic matter to be placed back into the
environment

Be able

Explain the geographical language of reduce,
reuse, recycle and replace.




I can explain the processes of reduce, reuse,
recycle and replace and how this can benefit
the environment and the community.






THIS IS WHAT I NEED
TO TEACH
THIS IS WHAT I NEED TO GIVE
STUDENTS OPPORTUNITIES TO BE
ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE
THIS IS WHAT I WANT
STUDENTS TO LEARN
Achievement Standards
Students will be able to:
Content Descriptors
Students need to:
Success Criteria written for students
I can:
Assessment of Learning
Assessment Technique Examples



Students develop
geographical questions to
investigate and collect and
record information and
data from different sources
to answer these questions.

Know
Interpreting the data presented in picture,
line, bar or column graphs, for example,
information collected from a survey about
waste produced in the school or their home

I can listen to and ask questions about
composting from the presentation provided
by the representative of the Moreton Bay
Regional Council.
Student/Teacher
consultation
Formal/informal questioning and
discussion
Involvement with student discussion
groups
Interviews about instances or events
Guest Speaker
Understand

Using geographical terms to explain the
relationship between the environment and
sustaining life


I can present questions and some answers
about what could be done? to recycle food
waste. I can give some reasons why
composting is good for our environment.
Focused analysis Class and student
presentations/performances
Research projects/tasks completed in class
Supervised tests
Extended student responses presented in
oral, written or multi-modal modes
Running record
Be able

Brainstorming ways that data might be
collected for an inquiry and choosing, with
teacher guidance, the most effective method
for a given investigation





I can design a data collecting method to
record the amount of composting waste my
home produces each day.
I can assist with the collection of data to
record the amount of composting waste my
class produces each day.


Teacher observation






Peer and self-
assessment





Incidental observation
Planned observation
Checklists



Students interpret data to
draw conclusions

Students present findings
using geographical
terminology in a range of
texts

Students propose individual
action in response to a local
geographical challenge and
identify the expected effects
of their proposed action.
Know that

Interpreting the data presented in picture, line,
bar or column graphs, information collected
from a survey about waste produced in the
school or home




I can present my data results to my class and
explain the survey results from my home
about the amount of composting waste my
family produces each day over a period of
one week. I am able to use this data to
estimate how many compost bins my family
could fill in one year.



Assessment for Learning
Assessment opportunities throughout the unit
of work will take place through:

Developing a persuasive audio-
visual text to promote action on the
benefits of composting using iPad
apps of the students choice.

Understand that

Using geographical terms to explain the
relationship between the environment and
sustaining life






I can use my data to demonstrate that
composting can be used to enrich the soil or
create new gardens and new plantings.

Be able to

Brainstorming ways that data might be
collected for an inquiry and choosing, with
teacher guidance, the most effective method
for a given investigation

I can present my knowledge and
understandings using an iPad app that
I choose to use to demonstrate my
response to composting as an
environmental issue.
Assessment of Learning (at the end of the
unit):
Does the activity align tightly to the
achievement standards?