Sustainable Design

This five-page instructor guide from Edmonds Community College provides a lesson plan on sustainable product design. The guide provides the outline for a PowerPoint presentation, a discussion guide, and exercises for students to complete. The lesson examines ISO 14000, a family of international standards intended to improve environmental performance. Students will learn how products can be designed to be reusable, recyclable, and compostable. This lesson is designed for high school and introductory college classrooms, and takes 45 minutes.

This guide includes the following sections: Student Learning Objectives, MatEdU Core Competencies Covered, Procedure, Accompanying PowerPoint Presentation, Small Group Discussion, and Student Evaluation Questions.