Time 4 Design
The student produces an ePortfolio (Design Folder) that follows the design cycle to develop a solution (or range of solutions),
which targets local/community waste.
Students must select one of the following audiences/clients:
· their school community
· their family
· community organizations: food banks/soup kitchens, community plots/gardens, or community shelters/centres.
Suggested solutions may be, but are not limited to, the following ideas:
· Recipes made from left overs
· App for waste donation
· Multi-media campaign around recycling for local use
· Textile product made from waste
· Prototype smart composting containers
· Electronics made from reclaimed parts
· Products to raise awareness of the destination of our waste
· Digital gamification solution to encourage reduction of food and water waste
· Edible cutlery/crockery
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Watch the following videos and make notes:
Read the Story of Stuff FACT Sheet HERE
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You will develop a solution (or range of solutions), which targets local/community waste.
Students must select one of the following audiences/clients:
· their school community
· their family
· community organizations: food banks/soup kitchens, community plots/gardens, or community shelters/centres.
For a video overview of this criteria see HERE
Here is the video overview for Crit C
Please note:
· the working title for this unit is a quote from Greta Thunberg’s speech to the United Nations COP24 Climate Change Conference, 4 December 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFkQSGyeCWg)
· waste donation could include, but is not limited to: unwanted furniture, clothes, broken toys, broken electrical goods.