This activity:

• introduces teachers to STEM, design thinking, and cross-curricular planning
• is planned in six parts which reflect the six phases of design thinking
• addresses outcomes from the mathematics and science and technology syllabus documents.
  

As students are guided through the six phases of design thinking, they:

• develop their understanding of the impact of waste management on the environment
• examine the effect of waste on living things
• link their learning to the world around them
• collect data on their classroom waste
• are challenged to design a system for their classroom to solve an authentic problem
• analyse the data to understand the effect of their management system.