CONSUMERISM

The injustice to the living and non-living of our planet in order to sustain an existence based upon greed and wealth, impacting: Global Warming; Poverty; Deforestation; Pollution

Year 7

Year 8

Mathematics
Technology

Life cycle
assessment.

Arts

Burger Design look

into ads and how
they hook young
people in

Languages
Health & PE
Humanities

Water and
Consumption
Liveable Cities and
consumption

Science

Recycling and
reusing materials.
Patterns in Nature
look at patterns in
nature, fragility of
ecosystems
Food

Food and the effects

of over consumption
in regards to health

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Cradle to the
grave./Cradle to
cradle concepts.

Planned obsolesce in
society.

Sustainable design.

Persuasive language
unit, how advertising
is used to encourage
consumerism.
Part of the financial
topic is to include
some discussion of
credit debt due to
consumerism.

English
If the world was as
village of 100
people as part of
percentages topic

Year 9

Body Image
consumerism in
regards to perceived
ideals of
perfectionism in an
ever increasing
aesthetic world
Money and
Production the use
of resources in
production.
Sustainable
production.
A sustainable house
effective use of
resources
Term 3

Food wastage.

Art issue: globalisation

of meat industry,
consumerism
regarding animal
products

Drama epic
Landscape Design
performance based on
design for an
a social issue such as
environment
consumerism
Holidays: Green &
Blue

Shopping

Unit 5
Enviro, pollution,
conservation
Olympics and
commercialisation
the cost $$ of a gold
medal and how much
$$ countries pay
athletes for success

Food in our World.

Can we feed the
world? What impact
does that have on
our land? Types of
food.
Yr 9 sustainability
ecosystems and
recycling, looking at
amounts of waste
produced on Mars
(Mission to Mars unit
in term 1)

A sustainable world
BusMgt looks at
What does this mean?
case studies of
What impact does it companies and how
have on people and they manage Public
the planet?
Relations.

Environmental science
Chemistry

Environmental
Science