LEARNING OUTCOME LO6 Students can evaluate the sustainable impact of new and existing business LEVEL Understanding SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOME 6.1 Students can evaluate a product, process or strategy taking into account sustainability PERSON IN CHARGE (NAME and EMAIL) Maria Cristina Galeasso (m.galeasso@aproformazione.it)
80 DESCRIPTION OF THE LEARNING MATERIALS The didactic material is made up of sheet in which the topic is addressed The pupils can follow it alone, in group or with the teacher. The form consists of a theoretical part in which activities with different methodological approaches for in-depth analysis, reflection and verification are inserted. The topics in the material are: THEORY: Content: • Definition of impact • Total impact of business: economic, environmental, social impact • Examples of sustainable impact in business GOAL 1: • Understand the idea of impact related to business’ products, processes or strategies • Understand how business can make their products, processes or strategies more sustainable BUSINESS CASE: How is my smartphone made? GOAL 2: • Understand how the production of a smartphone is done • Understand how the production of a smartphone affects environment and society Identify if sustainability can be improved in the production of a smartphone HOW TO USE? The teacher can use the material as a tool to use in class to introduce the the topic of sustainable development. In particular, the teacher can deliver the document to the students, in paper format or better in digital format, and decide how to use it according to their needs. It offers the possibility to be used in multiple teaching methods: from simple frontal lessons to cooperative learning, to the flipped classroom. The teacher can decide whether to let some parts of the material develop independently, either individually to each student or in a group. He can propose insights by watching the recommended videos and provide, together with the class, to the calculation of the ecological footprint of each student. There are also some interesting activity linked to the path that can be done with interdisciplinary approach with the collaboration of other teachers. Each part of the path can be accompanied by brain storming in relation to the observations that emerged. In the paper there are some questions to evaluate to evaluate the knowledge learned and their opinions on the topics covered.
