Sustainability of Resources and Consumerism

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Author: Beth Barsness

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Students will be able to define and give examples of “planned obsolescence”.
Students will be able to explain how their cell phone use affects people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), through the mining of coltan.
Students will choose a product and be able to determine its necessity, environmental impact, obsolescence, and necessary resources.

The goal of this lesson is to educate students on how their consumerism affects the Earth’s non-renewable resources.

Length of time needed: 120 mins

This lesson was written by Susie Newman.

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