These lessons are fun, engaging and highly interactive, ensuring that students will learn the importance of managing food waste and how some organisations, like Coles, are helping manage food waste on a larger scale. Simply click on the lesson for your year level and it will take you to the Cool.org site where you can download it for free.
For more information on Coles' sustainability initiatives, click here.
Waste-Free Lunch Challenge
Lesson Plans
Age Group: Early Learning
Children look at how to reduce the amount of packaging from their lunchboxes that ends up in landfill by creating a circular economy comic to change their behaviours. This activity is designed to help connect children to the wonders of the natural world through sensory and play-based learning. Click here.
Curriculum: Science
What do plants need to survive? Students explore how composting and breaking down organic matter creates soil that meets the needs of plants. Click here.
Curriculum: Science
Students will explore the role of decomposers in a food chain and use this information to create their own worm farm to process their class' green waste. Click here.
Curriculum: Design and Technologies
Students will investigate the matter and energy flows in green waste systems and identify the benefits that could be provided to their school by implementing the system. Click here.
Curriculum: Science
Students will investigate the matter and energy flows in green waste systems and identify the benefits that could be provided to their school by implementing the system. Click here.
These lesson plans have been aligned to Australian curriculum standards in collaboration with Cool.org
