Regenerate a space challenge
Engage your students with regeneration and sustainability by designing the retrofit of a room.
Overview
In this design lesson, students will research and apply sustainability and the concept of regeneration to retrofit a room. They will use their critical and creative thinking skills and Regenerative Design fact sheet to apply the best solution with minimal environmental impact.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- understand the various aspects of sustainability and apply them meaningfully in a relevant context.
Success criteria:
Students can...
- apply sustainability and regeneration concepts to a context that is relevant to them
- understand the difference between sustainability and regeneration
- be able to make sound decisions regarding the use of materials, technologies and application of regeneration/sustainability concepts relevant to a context.
Credits and acknowledgements:
Curriculum material and mapping has been developed and written by Cool.org.
Regenerating Australia is a Regen Studios film developed and produced in association with WWF-Australia. Cool.org and Regen Studios would like to acknowledge the generous contributions of Shark Island Foundation, Documentary Australia Foundation, and our philanthropic partners in the development of these teaching resources.
Watching the film
Regenerating Australia is available on ClickView making it easy to bring Regeneration into the classroom.
If your school doesn't have a ClickView account, Australian schools can purchase an educational licence for AU $55 which provides unlimited access to the film for educational use and on campus screenings for the wider school community. Schools will receive a digital copy of the film and a downloadable copy of our free School Action Toolkit. Apply now by filling in this Host a Screening form.
Curriculum mapping
What you'll need
- Learning materials
- Access to the film (see section 'watching the film')
- A device capable of presenting a video to the class.
Lesson materials
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