23 May - 29 May

Good Morning...students. For this week you will focus on  ideas that involve Electronic waste that impacts on the environment both in New Zealand and abroad.

Learning Intentions: We are learning to (WALT)...

• understand meaning to environment and sustainability
• researched and understood Yeld's 9 principles to sustainability
• working in teams to define  e waste,  and its implications onto the environment both in NZ and overseas

Success Criteria: I can/have...

* understood important concepts and Principles that with environment and sustainability

conducted team research on E- waste/ global and local impacts/ consequences and policy"s on this problem

1) Define the  words environment and sustainability.

2) Create a mind a map of all issues that effect our environment that therefore calls for the need for a more sustainable world

3) Understanding sustainability in depth through Yeld's nine principles. Examine each of these principles and apply to examples globally

4) By choosing an idea from the mind map list: work in groups on the following

Examples list: E Waste/ Waste 

First class discussion on what is e-waste and how this is a problem globally. Brainstorm ides on impacts onto the environment

5) examine how electronic devices are disposed off into the environment. Examine what are the environmental consequences as a result of this disposal.

6.  Choose one location globally  and discuss the reason / impacts of this for this problem onto people, economy and the environment

7)Why is there a need for sustainable practices for this issue.

8) Research New Zealand policy/ plan or practice around e-waste.

9) Through a diagram, show the life cycle of electronics

10) What advice would you give to reduce e-waste onto the environment.

11) Choose one article that shows the effect on E waste in New Zealand. Summarise this article.

Resources:

Mind Map, articles on Yeld's 9 principles/ images on e-waste/graphs on disposal in USA of e/waste/ images on impacts and NZ

Homework:
Write here... (please clearly identify the due date of the homework)

FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

• • We are FOCUSING...on identifying and discussing the various human activities that contribute to environmental problems with the ocean and coastlines
  • We are FOCUSING...on explaining how/ when/why these problems occur and describe the impact it has onto both living and non living resources( ocean life included)
  • We are FOCUSING...deducing who is responsible for the environmental and clarfying what measures are currently taken