Watch Your Waste - Kia mataara ki tāu para

• Waste minimization and management
• Sustainability
• Personal and social responsibility for action
• Waste hierarchy
• Natural cycles for dealing with waste
• Home and school composting

Students will gain an understanding of the waste hierarchy and effective waste minimisation and management processes.

There will be a strong focus on processing organic waste, which will include an introduction to several composting methods.

Students will learn the benefits of hot heap composting, EM Bokashi and worm farming methods. Proper use of City Council green bins will also be covered.

A visit to view the Transfer station floor gives students a glimpse of the sheer magnitude of items destined for landfill some of which could be recycled or reused. 

After learning what happens to the yellow bin contents, students will put their understanding to the test in a challenge to reduce, reuse and recycle rather than dispose of items.

We are learning to:

• organise the key waste actions into a hierarchy order for waste minimisation (the 7Rs)
• understand how Council kerbside collection works and what goes where
• make decisions that result in more sustainable use of our resources
• identify different composting methods, including important ingredients for good composting
• give examples of ways to reduce or reuse.

Using language, symbols and texts

Students will use oral, written and visual texts to interpret key waste concepts and processes.

Thinking

Students will use creative and critical thinking skills to problem-solve and expand knowledge of waste systems, waste minimisations and personal habits.

Managing self

Students will manage their behaviour so as to maximise their learning and that of their peers; recognising they are present at an industrial work site.

Participating and contributing

Students contribute to group tasks and class games (Top of the Pile, Win It or Bin It, The World According to MRF).

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3