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• Redesigning Plastic Packaging

  The lesson focuses on the widespread practice of plastic packaging and the problems it creates. It is one of a series of lessons within the World’s Largest Lesson that explores the circular economy. Students evaluate the effectiveness of the...

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• Understanding the Challenges of Finite Resources

  This lesson is part of a series of lessons which introduce students to a different way of thinking about how our economy could work: a circular economy. The series builds up exactly how a circular economy is different from the status quo, and looks at...

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• Life Below Water

  This resource examines the problem of plastics in the world’s oceans and directs students to consider individual changes they can make to help reduce the damage being caused. The lesson begins by drawing attention to the UN’s Sustainability...

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• The Circular Economy and Modern Agriculture

  Students are introduced to the challenges faced by modern agriculture and its monoculture focus in providing food security now and in the future.  As part of a series on the circular economy, this lesson promotes a system in which single crop food...

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• Re-thinking Progress

  'Re-thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works.  It suggest that we move from our current liner economic structure based on take, make, and dispose to a circular economy where we build...

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