Sustainable changemakers – lunchbox citizens
Explore the challenges around single use and soft plastics as well as empowering students to create positive change in their home, school and local community.
This resource supports student voice and agency in developing an action-based response to the issue of plastic litter. Students will gain an awareness of the impact we have on the environment and how they can become changemakers.
Using an Inquiry and STEAMD model, students will actively participate in hands-on change maker experiences. This resource is easily adaptable to a range of age groups.
Resources
Sustainable change makers: lunchbox citizens – teacher resource
Lunchbox citizens – inquiry booklet
Lunchbox citizens STEAMD – activity booklet
Unpacking the lunchbox – resource list
Unpacking the lunchbox – book list
Lunchbox citizens – hexagon thinking – activity sheet
Use this activity sheet to explore connections to sustainability through a hexagon thinking routine.
Lunchbox citizens – scavenger hunt on waste – activity sheet
Bento box – teacher's resource
In this activity students create a bento box artwork as a response to the problem of single-use plastics and explore ways to make a positive change.
Bento box design template – activity sheet
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