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Compost for Change!

Project aligns with
Sustainable
Development Goal 12 -
Ensure Sustainable

What’s the Problem?

Consumption and
Production
Year 6’s, every year the average How Can we Help? Patterns
Australian family produces enough
rubbish to fill a three-bedroom house,
Did you know that all of the
nutrients in our fresh food scraps can be
producing about 2.25kg of waste
recycled to give much needed nutrients to
each per day! Overall, Australians
d, our school veggie garden? As a class,
threw away $2.9 billion of fresh foo
y we are going to create a composting
what a waste! Our unsustainable wa
system by recycling food scraps to use
of living results in enormous amounts
on the veggie garden! But first, each
of rubbish being put in landfills each student is to create their own model
year. Th is isn’t sustainable for our composting system so we have lots of
future generations! Something has to designs as potential solutions to our
be done to reduce the waste produced waste problem
in Australia.

Your Task
How Will This be Your task is to design a composting
Presented and Assessed? system for our school to implement. You will have
two lessons to plan, draft, design and create your
will be peer model composting system. You will have one
Each student’s final creation
nts: Does it further lesson to create either a poster or a short
assessed on three main eleme
ents of a iMovie explaining your chosen design and how it
have all the necessary compon
m? Would it will work. The materials you will have to use are:
functioning composting syste
ould we be Pop sticks, pipe cleaners, glue, sticky tape, paper
fit near the veggie garden? W
system at and cardboard. Any other materials you wish to
able to build th is composting
models, we use will have to be approved by Miss Leavy. Your
our school? To present your
l with their design needs to include all components of a
will set up each persons mode
ssroom so composting system that we will learn about in
iMovie/poster around the cla
k at all the upcoming lessons. You may add any extra special
we can wander around and loo
features you think would benefit the composting
different designs.
system.