Benny and the Junior Rangers​
"It's Easy Being Green!"

Episode 6: Al the Aluminium Can. (Energy Use and Upcycling Bikes)


Synopsis:

The main message here is the world works in cycles, recycling and upcycling. Al the aluminium can takes us on a journey through the world of recycling, and also how we can upcycle things like bicycles. Rather than throwing them away, we can fix them, then less metal goes into landfill to be lost forever ( or at least millions of years) and less raw materials need to be extracted from the earth from iron ore, transported to china, where it is refined into metal, made into products like bicycles and lots of other materials and then shipped back to countries like Australia to be sold.

 

Sustainability Framework Guide:  Futures and Design Thinking

• Identify and give reasons for change in objects, places and behaviour over the immediate past. Envisioning futures

• Predict events and changes based on trends and patterns that have been personally experienced.

• Envision future events and places from a projection of personal experience by making drawings of what might be imagined for the future, and explain the need that would be met by key features.

 

 

Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education, students explore how they connect and interact with natural, managed and built environments, and with people in different social groups within their social networks and wider communities. They consider how these connections and interactions within systems play an important role in promoting, supporting and sustaining the wellbeing of individuals, the community and the environment as a whole, now and into the future. Students develop their world view by exploring concepts of diversity, social justice and consumerism as these relate to the promotion and maintenance of health and wellbeing. Through movement experiences, students are provided with opportunities to develop a connection in and with environments and to gain an appreciation of the interdependence of the health of people and that of environments. (ACARA, 2022)