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Goals, messages & concepts
Specific goals
- To help create real change within their school waste system.
Specific messages
- Students can lead the solutions to reduce waste within their schools and local communities.
Main terms
- reducing waste
Practices & skills
STEM practices
- Analysing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Asking questions and defining problems
Soft skills
- Empathy
- Dealing with uncertainty
- Learning failure is a part of learning
- Teamwork and collaboration
Management skills
- Planning
- Use of resources
Course of activity
step 1
This is an optional Learning Unit for schools which are in the process of becoming zero waste and will span over the course of 12 months.
step 2
On completion of this learning scenario, students will have the opportunity to become school Eco Ambassadors, pitching a proposal and creating a Zero Waste School with the help of a panel of local changemakers: Andy Burnham, Tamoor Tariq, Prof Alice Larkin.
step 3
The Eco Ambassadors will lead the journey to implement a whole school approach to transformational change, demonstrating leadership, scientific endeavour and engineering habits of mind. This tool can be used to measure the journey to becoming a circular economy within a business.
step 4
This will be student-led, with teachers to facilitate and local changemakers to act as advisees. They will have 12 months to make a difference.
step 5
Students will lead monthly tutorials which will explore creative solutions to reduce waste. Tutorials will be shared with a local partner primary school. Their journey will be documented.