Eco-Warriors - Year 8 Impact week activity.
By Lisa Dixon | Posted: Monday August 20, 2018
Students that were part of our Eco-Warriors group had a very busy and full on week. Over the four sessions we had two guest speakers and made our chocolate and packaging Our first speaker was Amy from Well&Good cafe in Roslyn. She spoke to us about her business and their eco practices such as using keep cups, zero waste, growing their own greens, buying local produce only as examples of their eco friendly practices. She then showed the group how to make a reusable bag out of old tshirts. Her big message was looking for ways to repurpose goods rather than throw things away,\
We then moved onto the issue of palm oi and watched a number of videos about this issue and the impact on animals and their habitats. We looked at all the things we use or consume that may contain palm oil and focused on chocolate. In groups the students then planned for making their own chocolate and planned repurposing containers, bags and other things they found at home to create packaging for their chocolate products. Our second guest speaker was Wyn from Trade Aid who spoke about Fair Trade and then about their chocolate making and design of their compostable packaging. She also brought in some samples and talked about how to do chocolate taking properly.
It was a fun and educational week and the final results of the chocolate making were fantastic - our judges certainly thought so!!
Ms Dixon
Miss Kearsley.
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