Sustainability4Everyone

Description: In this camp, students will learn about being sustainable, green product design, learn about biomimicry-that is, learning from plants and animals when designing products, consider how to connect schools/learning spaces to nature, and participate in a virtual circular design challenge with their peers.

11:00 am to 12:00 pm live webinar with camp instructor and students.

Monday Topic: Are you living sustainably? Sharing our practices for living more sustainably.

Activity: Writing your sustainability tale and creating your family plan for living sustainably. 

Tuesday Topic: Biomimicry: What can the plants and animals teach us about design?

Activity: Designing a robot based on biomimicry (chose an animal to mimic in your robot).

Wednesday Topic: Designing a sustainable city; designing our homes and schools to be green.

Activity: Designing your sustainable city; Re-design your school or home to be connected to nature.

Thursday Topic:  Green design; Getting ready for our design challenge.

Activity: Re-design a toy (your favorite toy) to be green (better materials, to be reused or repurposed)

Friday Topic: Sharing and celebrating our designs.

Activity: Sharing student toy designs; creating your own sustainability card game. 

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Independent work on activity.

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Share your ideas with your peers and post your work into the class workspace.

We will be using Zoom for our webinars. The webinar information will be sent  a week before the start of the summer camp. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Camp takes place: Monday, July 27, 2020, 11:00 AM to Friday Jul 31, 2020, 4:00 PM EDT.

For students in Grades 3, 4 and 5.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/virtual-summer-camp-i-want-to-be-a-green-innovator-tickets-110976128588.

By Sustainability4Everyone