Name
Growing Plastic
Topic
Bioeconomy
Learning time
3 hours and 40 minutes
Designed time
6 hours and 35 minutes
Size of class
15-25
Description
The world population is living, working, vacationing, along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Plastic is versatile, lightweight, flexible, moisture resistant, strong, and relatively inexpensive. Those are the attractive qualities that lead us, around the world, to such a voracious appetite and over-consumption of plastic goods. Our tremendous attraction to plastic, coupled with an undeniable behavioral propensity of increasingly over-consuming, discarding, littering and thus polluting, has become a combination of lethal nature. The future for the world is bioeconomy, recycle and use biodegradable material
Aims
Collaboration Communication Science & engineering civic competence entrepreneurship digital competence
Outcomes
No outcomes are set
Editor
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Plastic pollution
160 minutes)
  • Investigate
    30
    20
    0
    Analyze this pictures about "Plastic pollution and marine debris" http://www.marlisco.eu/
  • Practice
    50
    20
    2
    You work in group and make a table and classify the type of plastic pollution.
  • Discuss
    30
    20
    0
    Why are there so many plastic pollution in the sea/beach ? To formulate different hypotheses.
  • Read Watch Listen
    50
    20
    1
    Read the document and find why there is so much plastic in the sea. Is it ok with your hypotheses?
Notes:
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Organic solution - Biopolymers
75 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    10
    0
    "Know your plastics" Different kinds of biopbolymers and their recources
  • Discuss
    25
    0
    Why use bioplastics? Is this a good option? What are the consequences? (pros and cons)
  • Investigate
    25
    0
    Investigate different bioplastics and their properties.
  • Practice
    15
    0
    Excersise on biopolymers
Notes:
Resources linked: 0
Bioplastic-Making Bioplastic 3 lessons
80 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    20
    20
    1
    To search in internet at home. 1st group-What'is bioplastic? 2nd group- What are the properties of bioplastic? To comunicate using drive docs
  • Produce
    30
    20
    1
    laboratory In this activity students make a plastic from potato starch and other food. 1st group-Make Bioplastic from food residues that have starch. 2nd group- Make bioplastic from potatoes 3rd group- make bioplastic from starch.
  • Investigate
    30
    20
    0
    Class practical In this activity students investigate the effect that adding a ‘plasticiser’ has on the properties of the polymer that they make.
  • Read Watch Listen
    0
Notes:
These activity will take place in three lessons
Resources linked: 0
Product design/3D Printing
80 minutes)
  • Read Watch Listen
    15
    0
    Youtube movie : What is 3D printing and how does it work?
  • Discuss
    20
    20
    0
    What do you think of 3D printing? o Printing toys, parts of houses, or even ears, organs,.. o PLA is bioplasic, what do you think of that?
  • Produce
    45
    1
    0
    3D Design in Thinkercad, following instructions
Notes:
If you have a 3D printer in class, you can print it in class. Else you can maybe let it print in a fablab or in a company in the neighbourhood.
Resources linked: 0

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