This
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.