The Ins and Outs of Waste - Level 6 Sample Unit

VELS and employability skills

The ins and outs of waste is an example of how to assess students against elements of Level 6 standards and facets of employability skills as detailed below:

For further information see the Employability skills section.

Strand	Domain	Dimension	Element of standard	Related employability skill
Physical, Personal and Social Learning	Personal Learning	Managing personal learning	… monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of their task and resource management skills.	Planning and organising … evaluates and monitors own performance.
Discipline-based Learning	Science	Science knowledge and understanding	… identify and classify the sources of wastes generated, and describe their management, within the community and in industry. … use a specific example to explain the sustainable management of a resource.
Discipline-based Learning	Science	Science at work	… construct visual aids that demonstrate scientific ideas.
Interdisciplinary Learning	Thinking Processes	Reasoning, processing and inquiry	… complete activities focusing on problem solving and decision making which involve a wide range and complexity of variables and solutions.	Problem solving … takes a creative and practical approach to problems.
Interdisciplinary Learning	Thinking Processes	Creativity	… experiment with innovative possibilities within the parameters of a task

For further information see the Assessment section.