Sustainable Starter activities
The following activities aim to introduce aspects of sustainability into your D&T lessons. The activities range from looking at sustainability definitions through to hands-on product based starter activities.
Product pairs: helping students to think through their own values as consumers.
Belief Circles: helps students to think of their own values and those of their peers in relation to design and technology activity.
Line Ups: a group or whole class activity to enable students to position themselves along a sustainability line up.
Winners and Losers: a product evaluation activity to enable students to look at environmental and social impacts.
Let's negotiate: A small team activity to help students develop specification criteria for their own designing and making activity.
Sustainability wordsearch: Suitable for key stages 2 and 3.
We aim to add new activities here regularly!
The activities below are slightly longer introductory activities that have accompanying powerpoints and linked starter activities.
Product Lifecycle Analysis - impacts on people and environment
Classroom resources to help key stage 3 and 4 students understand the impact of existing and new products on people and the environment.
Read moreSustainable Design - What's the role of a designer?
A presentation and linked activities to help D&T teachers highlight the different values and beliefs that designers may hold.
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