Recycled Teaching Notes

Week 10: Recycled Teaching

Acknowledgement of Country

• Acknowledges the Darug, Tharawal, Gandangarra, and Wiradjuri peoples.
• Recognizes that Western Sydney University Campuses are built on First Nations land.
• Expresses respect and humility in learning with students on traditional land.
• Thanks Traditional Owners for their support.
• Endeavors to positively fulfill the responsibility as Custodian of Country.

Spoken and Written Disclaimers

• Content may disturb viewers due to sensitive topics like family dislocation from the Stolen Generation and trans-generational trauma.
• Photographs, film images, voice recordings, names, and references may pertain to deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment

• Source: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, October 2, 2015.
• Used for educational purposes courtesy of SOHO/NASA consortium.
• SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.

Shanty Town Cairo, Egypt

• Illustrates microeconomics evolving into macroeconomics due to widespread poverty.
• Features different types of recycling, including sorting of pottery, textiles, leather, and metals.
• Photo by VENTUS under Creative Commons License 3.

Dead Trees in the Brukunga Pyrites Mine Tailings Dam

• Location: East of Adelaide in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia.
• Date: January 1, 1992.
• Photographer: John Coppi, CSIRO.

Acid Mine Drainage Rio Tinto River

• Image by Carol Stoker, CSIRO.

Waste Disposal Ponds in Coastal Sand Dunes near Bunbury WA

• Location: Coastal sand dunes near Bunbury, Western Australia.
• Date: 1983.
• Image by Willem van Aken, CSIRO, July 26, 2007.

Connection to SEA?

• Image of a dead Laysan Albatross chick with plastic remains.
• Location: Eastern Island, Midway Atoll.
• Date: April 5, 1999.
• Photographer: Stephen Codrington.

Connection TO Country?

• Debris and pollution in the River Torrens.
• Photographer: Willem van Aken, CSIRO, January 1, 1995.

Image of Child and Waste

• Photo by “Anna.”

Aboriginal Woman and Dog in NT Town Camp

• Date: February 10, 2016.
• Source: ABC NEWS.
• Article link provided.

Clean up COUNTRY

• Artwork by Madison Shakespeare, 2016.
• Emphasizes that cleaning up the country is more than just a notion, political stance, economic incentive, or cultural disposition.

Lesson Ideas

• Accessible teaching materials.
• Enable awareness in students.
• Empower students to identify realistic outcomes.
• Make change possible.

Recycled Plastic Bags

• Activities: “Garbage Detective” and “Garbage Trivia.”
• Plastic bags have been around for approximately 30 years.
• Estimated 1 trillion bags are used and discarded worldwide annually.
• Australians use 3.92 billion plastic bags per year (over 10 million new bags daily).
• EPA South Australia - No Plastic Bags Since 2009.

Mattresses from Plastic Bags

• Plan Mats.

Igloos

• Recycling Games PDHPE
• Link to recycling games guide for teachers.

Waste Activities for Kids

• P Learning4kids.
• Activities for early childhood, primary, and secondary levels.
• Focus on fine motor skills, manual dexterity, creative arts, numeracy, literacy, science, engineering, TAS, and geography.

Traditional Learning Practices

• 8 Ways of Learning.
• Indigenous Pedagogy - 8 Ways of Learning

The Land Owns Us

• Bob Randall, Yankunytjnatjara Elder and Traditional Owner.
• Explains connectedness of every living thing.
• Way of living includes all beings as part of a vast family, calling us to be responsible.

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