We work with Stage 3 students to explore the principles of sustainability including waste reduction, low-waste construction and a consideration of environmentally sensitive design.
Through these syllabus-aligned workshops, children in Year 5 and Year 6 will be challenged not only to innovate, design and construct, but also to consider the environmental and social impact of materials, products and processes.
Venue: your place or ours
Pricing: An individual quote will be provided depending on the number of educators required, your minimum expected numbers and the length of your visit as provided in your booking inquiry form. As an indication prices for 1.5 hour visit range from $12.50 to $16 (incl. gst), alternatively you might like us to work to your budget.
The following travel fees apply: 5km to 15km from Reverse Garbage (one way as determined by Google maps) $25, 16km to 30km = $50, 31km to 50km = $75, over 50km =$100
5 week sustainability program option for Sydney metro schools:
We can come in for an afternoon (or morning) each week for 1.5 hours and cover a range of environmental topics. Here’s and example:
Week 1. Excursion to RG (Marrickville) – Warehouse industrial offcuts and waste tour, reuse garden with worms & composting, and Reuse Maker activity. (If excursions are not possible another option can be arranged).
Week 2. Incursion: Repurposing and repair – making something new from something that has been discarded. (design, STEM)
Week 3. Incursion: Microplastics – landfill and oceans (waste, packaging,
Week 4. Incursion: Reuse artworks (Assemblage, Sculpture)
Week 5. Incursion: Sustainable house maker workshop – (Water Saving, Energy, building design, Compost, worms)
Blue mountains / Illawarra / Central Coast Schools Whole day visit
Session 1. Repurposing and repair – making something new from something that has been discarded. (design, STEM)
Session 2. Reuse artworks (Assemblage, Sculpture)
Session 3. Sustainable house maker workshop (Stage 2/3)- (Water Saving, Energy, building design, Compost, worms) or Kooky Characters (Stage 1) (Materials, construction techniques)
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CLASS or SCHOOL WASTE AUDIT
Over a full day or number of weeks (negotiated with the school) Reverse Garbage will work with the school student leaders or class reps to conduct a whole school waste audit and whole school sustainability plan.
The waste from different areas of the school will be investigated including but not limited to classrooms, canteens, administration, sports sheds, grounds and maintenance.
Students will sort, classify, count, record and report their findings and will then work with RG’s environmental scientist to explore options to eliminate or reduce waste through a waste reduction hierarchy. They will consider all options at each stage of the waste cycle from production, packaging and purchasing through to the destruction of waste.
A plan and proposal will be developed for presentation to the school leadership for consideration and possible future implementation.
Duration: 2hrs / two afternoons or a full day.
Venue: your place. (you will collect waste for us to investigate)
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: ST3-9PW-ST
Concepts: Physical and technical world, Sustainability, landfill, reuse, recycling, materials and properties, waste hierarchy, sorting, classifying and counting, and recording.
PUSHMI POWER VEHICLES
Students will plan, design and build a vehicle that moves by using contact and non contact forces – they will experiment with push/pull forces and methods of making their creations move.
Children use low-waste construction techniques as they develop an understanding of forces, gravity, friction and energy types.
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: ST3-9PW-ST
Concepts: Physical and technical World, Sustainability, landfill, reuse. Materials.
SPACE STATIONS, SATELLITES
Spend some time making your way around the solar system! Working in teams, students use industrial off-casts and e-waste materials to construct a space station, satellites, a lunar model and rockets. Students are challenged to consider
the requirements for life in space as well as the opportunities offered by zero gravity as they design and construct their space module without the use of tape or glue.
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: ST3- 8ES, ST3-14BE, ST3-5WT, ST3-2VA, VA3.2
STEAMPUNK MARIONETTES
Bring the traditional craft of puppet-making into the 21st century. Students invent their own characters and then bring them to life using a wide variety of waste materials. Students will develop design and construction problem solving skills with re-used materials and communicate their procedures.
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: HT3-1, HT3-2, EN3-5B, DRAS3.1, DRAS3.2, DRAS3.3, VA3.2, ST3-5WT
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SHELTER SHELTER
Make: Challenge yourself to design and build shelters in the context of real-world issues including climate, geography and access to resources. Students will work in teams to come up with solutions for specific environments and construct models using waste materials. They will develop construction skills and techniques as they increase their awareness of social and environmental factors affecting housing.
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: ST3-14BE, ST3-10LW, ST3-13MW, ST3-5WT
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E-WASTE SCULPTURE
Learn the secrets of contemporary sculptors and turn waste into wonderful works of art. Students will be guided to create their own three-dimensional works through a process of experimentation with broken electrical and electronic items and other discards. The environmental and social results of the rate of change in technology will be discussed as students develop skills and techniques in material manipulation and experimentation.
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links: ST3-5WT, ST3-16P, VAS3.2
Book an e-Waste Sculpture workshop
No Glue or Tape Challenge: TOWERS & BRIDGES
Take the no glue or tape challenge and encourage students to explore joining using other methods!
We will explore types of bridges and towers and then in groups work to build using a range of reuse materials.
Duration: 90 minutes
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students (but can be adapted to other year levels if required)
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
NSW Syllabus links:
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP in your school
This workshop is designed for the environment leaders in your school, it might be the environment committee, school captains or the student council. We will explore all the areas of the school where we might consider implementing sustainable practices, if we have time we can conduct a waste audit and make a project plan for the areas of highest priority. We will explore what it means to be the ‘champion’ of sustainability, methods of change and keeping the momentum going.
Duration: 3 hours, half day or a full day
Venue: your place or ours
Age: designed for Stage 3 students but can be adapted.
Capacity: maximum 30 students (or 1x class)
Coming to visit us at Marrickville? Why not stay longer and add these activities to your visit?
Waste Sorting Challenge
Recycling can be confusing. How well do you and your students know which bits of household waste can and can’t be recycled – and how to do it? Our waste-sorting game will clarify all the different waste streams and give students the lowdown on what goes where.