Module 5 Teaching Suggestions

Teaching Suggestions

Classroom Visitors
Over the course of this module, consider inviting into the classroom several visitors representing local businesses, professional or trade organizations, colleges or universities, and the community. For ideas about locating potential visitors and speakers, click the Coordinate Learning Experiences link. Contact business or university representatives to schedule a visit at least a month before beginning the module.

Design for the Environment (DFE) Project

Throughout Closing the Environmental Loop, students develop a proposal to redesign a product to make it more environmentally sustainable. In order to develop their proposals, students research many aspects of a particular product:

Its life cycle
Environmental problems related to its production and use
Its design
The materials and energy used to produce it
Its supply chain

In Activity 6, students present their proposals to their peers, who review both the proposals and the effectiveness of the presentations.

Video
Segments of the video, The Next Industrial Revolution—William McDonough, Micahel Braungart, and the Birth of the Sustainable Economy, are used in three activities during Closing the Environmental Loop. In Activity 1, the first video segment titled “Taking the Next Step” is used in Session 3 as an introduction to the Design for the Environment Project. In Activity 3, two video segments are shown during Session 18 to introduce students to two companies that use innovative strategies to reduce energy consumption in their facilities. In Activity 4, another video segment is used during Session 19 to show the importance of considering the supply chain when a company strives to make environmentally sustainable products. This video may be available from your local library or video store, or go to the Ford PAS Online Catalog to purchase this video.

Materials Needed

Activity 1: Products and the Environment (6 Sessions)

SESSIONS 1 AND 2

Chart paper and markers (enough for each team)

SESSION 3

Monitor and video player
Video: Segment from The Next Industrial Revolution (approximately eight minutes)
Copies of RM 1.1 Design for the Environment Project Assessment (one copy for each student)

SESSIONS 4 AND 5

Computers with access to the Internet and a printer (one for each team)

SESSION 6

Computers with access to the Internet and a printer
Shoe life-cycle diagram developed during Session 1

Activity 2: Closing the Loop by Design (6 Sessions)

SESSION 7

Computers with access to the Internet and a printer (at least one computer for each team)

SESSION 8

Several products that can be remanufactured or have modular pieces, such as a computer, telephone (with cord), stereo, or printer cartridge

SESSION 10

Copies of RM 2.1, RM 2.2, RM 2.3, RM 2.4, and RM 2.5 What Are the Drivers? Cases 1–5 (several copies of each case study)
Chart paper and markers (a different-colored marker for each team)

SESSION 11

Copies of Quiz 1 (one copy for each student)

SESSIONS 11 AND 12

Computers with access to the Internet and a printer (at least one computer for every three students).

Activity 3: Reducing a Company’s Impact (6 Sessions)

SESSION 14

Copies of RM 3.1 TRJ Energy Technology Data Assessment (one copy for each student)

SESSION 16

Computers with access to a printer (one computer for each team)

SESSION 18

Monitor and video player
Video: The Next Industrial Revolution (two segments, approximately 15 minutes total)

Activity 4: Creating Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains (5 Sessions)

SESSION 19

Monitor and video player
Video: Segment from The Next Industrial Revolution (approximately 11 minutes)

SESSION 20

Two copies of RM 4.1 Supply Chain Negotiation Script 1 (one copy each for each pair of students)
Two copies of RM 4.2 Supply Chain Negotiation Script 2 (one copy each for each pair of students)
Copies of RM 4.3 Negotiation Skills Assessment (one copy for each student)

SESSION 21

Copies of RM 4.4 Negotiation Scenario Role 1 (one copy each for each pair of students)
Copies of RM 4.5 Negotiation Scenario Role 2 (one copy each for each pair of students)
Copies of RM 4.3 Negotiation Skills Assessment (one copy for each student)

SESSION 22

By-product exchange map form and markers

SESSION 23

Sticky notes (several for each student)
Prepared pieces of chart paper labeled with categories of inputs and outputs
Additional pieces of chart paper
Copies of RM 5.1 TRJ Cotton Purchasing Information (one copy for each member of the Cotton Purchasing team, approximately one-third of the class)
Copies of RM 5.2 TRJ Fabric Dyeing Information (one copy for each member of the Fabric Dyeing team, approximately one-third of the class)
Copies of RM 5.3 TRJ Stonewashing Information (one copy for each member of the Stonewashing team, approximately one-third of the class)
Copies of Quiz 2 (one copy for each student)

Activity 5: Company Impact (8 Sessions)

SESSION 24

Copies of RM 5.4 Sustainable Supply Chain Proposal Assessment (one copy for each student)

SESSION 26

Students' copies of RM 5.4 Sustainable Supply Chain Proposal Assessment

SESSION 27

Students’ copies of RM 1.1 Design for the Environment Assessment

ACTIVITY 6: Design for the Environment Project (3 Sessions)

SESSIONS 28 AND 29

Copies of RM 6.1 Design for the Environment Peer Assessment (enough copies for each student to assess three presentations)
Optional: Computer and LCD projector (if students have created proposals using presentation software)

SESSION 30

Copies of the Module Test (one copy for each student)