Geometry: Packaging and sustainability

PBL : Geometry

Packaging and sustainability

It is a nine session lesson aimed to 2nd Secondary students. During these lessons, our students will learn how to use area and volume calculations to create sustainable products.

Mission: Creating a container with the minimum amount of material and low environmental impact.

Session 1: Vocabulary and area and volume calculation.

Session 2: Calculate area and volume.

Session 3: Analysing commercial brand containers. Debate.

Session 4: Building optimal containers.

Session 5: TAG feedback session.

Session 6: Building optimal containers and self-assessment.

Session 7: Presentation of their final product and peer assessment.

Session 8: Presentation of their final product and peer assessment.

Session 9: Work exhibition.

The main objectives of these lessons are:

• 1. Calculating areas and volumes.

• 2. Investigating the designing process of the same packaging in different companies and analyze the similarities and differences.

• 3. Justifying the perfect dimensions and use of materials of packaging.

The key competences developed during these lessons are:

Curriculum Area: Maths

● Problem solving dimension.

Competence 2. Using mathematical concepts, tools and strategies to solve problems.

● Reasoning and proving dimension.

Competence 5. Building, expressing and contrasting arguments to justify and validate affirmations made in maths.

Curriculum Area: Foreign language

● Oral communication dimension.

Competence 1. Obtaining information and interpreting oral texts from daily life, frome media and from academic sources.

Competence 2. Planning and developing oral texts from different typologies which are appropriate for every communicative situation.

Competence 3. Using oral interaction strategies which are appropriate with every communicative situation to start, keep and end a speech.

● Reading comprehension dimension.

Competence 4. Using comprehension strategies to obtain information and interpreting the content of texts with clear structures about daily life, media and academic sources.

Competence 5. Interpreting contextual, discursive and linguistic characteristics from a text and recognising its typology to understand it.

Competence 6. Choosing and using consulting tools to understand texts and getting knowledge.

● Written expression dimension.

Competence 7. Planning written texts from different typologies using the elements from the communicative situation.