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Description
To need or to want are two different things. This interactive game helps students analyse what is most essential to them.
Student collaborate in teams in order to identify and analyse what is essential and what is not. As the teacher reads different scenes, that are provided, the group must identify essential products. After each scene, they will need to eliminate certain products until they are left with only five.
General Assessment
Strengths
- Engaging activities
- Scenes are provided and easy to understand
- Provides an opportunity for reflection
Weaknesses
- The resource does not supply background knowledge
- No extension activities have been developed in order to provide more substance to the resource
Recommendation of how and where to use it
This lesson could be used as an effective introduction to the study of sustainable consumption. It would motivate discussion on personal lifestyles in regard to consumption on material goods. It could also be used in environmental science and social studies classes to introduce or summarize outcomes involving energy use, exploiting natural resources and environmental contamination.
Relevant Curriculum Units
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- British Columbia
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.
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- Grade 12
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- Social Studies
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- Citizenship and Sustainability: Area of Inquiry: Environment
- Global Issues
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Introduction to Environmental Science 120: Sustainable Development
- Newfoundland & Labrador
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- Grade 10
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- Social Studies
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- Social Studies 1201: Economic Decision Making
- Social Studies 1201: Individual Rights and the Common Good
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- Geography
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- World Geography 3200/3202: Ecosystems
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- Social Studies 3201: Political Economy
- Nunavut
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Studies
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- Environmental Studies 35: Northern Environmental Issues
- Ontario
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- Grade 8
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- Geography
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- Global Inequalities: Economic Development and Quality of Life
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- Geography
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- Issues in Canadian Geography (Academic): Interactions in the Physical Environment
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- Geography
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- The Environment & Resource Management (Workplace Preparation): Human-Environment Interactions
- World Geography: Urban Patterns & Populations (Univ. / College Prep.): Sustainability and Stewardship
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 621A: Introduction to Environmental Science
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- Geography 631A Global Issues: What are the issues?
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- Grade 11
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- Social Studies
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- Contemporary World: Environment
- Saskatchewan
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- Grade 10
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- Social Studies 10: Economic Decision Making
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- Social Studiees 20:World Issues - Environment
- Yukon Territory
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- Grade 12
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- Environmental Science
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- Environmental Science 12: Living sustainably supports the well-being of self, community, and Earth.
- Social Studies
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- Physical Geography 12: Interactions between human activities and the atmosphere affect local and global weather and climate
Themes Addressed
Citizenship (2)
- Ecological Footprint
- Sustainable Consumption
Waste Management (1)
- Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
