War On Waste - Use Secondary Maths to Measure Waste

Course summary

Drive the desire to learn Maths with these Years 7 to 10 teaching ideas, which help students use their knowledge and skills in the crucially important issue of waste. 

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This course will help you provide real-life learning experiences that develop students’ maths skills and understandings.

You will learn:

• About the different types of waste and litter at your school.
• How waste audits connect to the Year 7 to 9 Mathematics curriculum.
• About different methods for collecting waste data.
• How to use Mathematics to inspire students to take action around waste.
• The ways you can extend your students’ learning.
• How to teach student-led waste audits in Mathematics lessons.
• How to use course teaching resources and share learning with others.
• About the ABC series; War On Waste.

Course time:

This course will take you 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks. You will have ongoing access via your personal dashboard.

Accreditation:

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours in the following states and territories:

Proficient Teacher – all states and territories except NSW:

• 2.5.2 Apply knowledge and understanding of effective teaching strategies to support students’ literacy and numeracy achievement.
• 3.3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning
• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

This course is not currently accredited in NSW (NESA). However, it can be counted toward NESA PD elective hours.

This course is accredited by TQI for 2 hours of professional development for teachers in the ACT for 2024.

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Course Content

Getting Started

01.

Introduction

02.

Set some learning goals

Landfill and Recycling Waste

03.

Mathematics education

04.

Using War On Waste to explore mathematics

05.

About landill waste

06.

About recycling waste

07.

Analysing waste bills

08.

Measuring bins and skips

09.

Graphing your findings

Litter

10.

Litter in the harbour

11.

Your school's litter

12.

Measuring and collecting litter data

Take Action

13.

Taking learning further

14.

Sustainability at Merici College

15.

Audits in action

16.

Involving others

Your Teaching

17.

Cool lesson plans - landfill and recycling

18.

Cool lesson plans - litter

Reflection

19.

Reflection

20.

Taxonomy of learning

21.

Suggestions for collaboration

22.

Congratulations

Course instructor

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech start-up and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!

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Partners

Cool Australia’s War On Waste lessons have been developed in partnership with Lune Media and with support from the Australian Environmental Grantmakers Network.