Introduction

This is an integrated Social Studies/Science resource for Years 7 - 9 covering the issues of Integrated Waste Management.

There is a section on Marine Debris but otherwise this resource does not deal with the issue of our water resource. This has been covered in an excellent integrated-curriculum resource: Living With Our Waterways and Save Our Disappearing Water listed in Appendix 2.

Each unit is prefaced with Curriculum Achievement Objectives and Indicators and a summary of each activity then concludes with Assessment Activities related to the achievement objectives. (For ease of management it is suggested that teachers assess only one achievement objective and/or skill for formal record keeping purposes.) All eight essential skills - communication, numeracy, information, problem-solving, self-management and competitive skills, social and cooperative skills, physical and work and study skills - will be developed and practised with this resource.

The aims of this resource are to:

• foster understanding of integrated waste management practices
• encourage students to apply this understanding or knowledge responsibly and contribute constructively to their own community and the wider society.

The units and sections can be done separately as stand-alone studies and/or as part of a wider unit. This is a copyright-free booklet and permission is given to schools and teachers to make photocopies of all pages.

Students will be involved in Values Exploration:

• the nature of social justice
• the welfare of others
• acceptance of cultural diversity
• respect for the environment

Students will be encouraged to examine:

• their own values, the influences that have shaped them, the reasons why they are held, and the consequences of holding them
• the diversity of value systems in local, regional, and global communities and the reasons for the diversity, in relation to a concept or issue
• instances of technological change, identifying the attitudes and values promoting this change
• ways in which communities and societies attempt to deal with values conflict and seek to come to some agreement on underlying values in order to establish a basis for people and groups to live and work together.

Students should apply their knowledge as they make decisions about actions that could be taken on a range of issues and problems in a society. To do this they need to clarify a social issue, then suggest a range of possible strategies to address the issue. They can select strategies on the basis of the values and decide what action could be taken. Throughout this process the students can reflect upon and evaluate their thinking and their findings.

Students from a diverse range of cultural groups are present in many New Zealand classrooms.  Students need to recognise that more than one set of cultural expectations needs to be met when exploring values.

Keep Christchurch Beautiful Campaign Education Progression Chart
Years 1-3 Tidiness
Years 4-6 Waste & its Management
Years 7-9 Effective Waste Management

Contents

This document has been published as a series of 5 pdf files, one for each Unit, plus one for the Appendices.  You will need a copy of Acrobat Reader to view these files to download the free viewer click on the download icon.

For additional information please contact Keep Christchurch Beautiful Co-ordinator.