Packaging design and sustainability
There are some good ideas in these resources for including sustainability issues in design and technology, mostly thinking about reducing waste, reusing and recycling.
One Planet Packaging
These resources cover every aspect of sustainable packaing design. The slides and the case study are really useful for illustrating the core principles, and the resource sheets are equally useful as handouts for students, or background information for non-specialist teachers.
Less is more!
This is a useful set of slides and activities to challenge students to look at how a product could be redesigned to require less packaging. The slides could be used with most design projects to guide analysis and group discussion.
STEM Club Activity: the whole package
You could introduce smart materials into packaging design with this activity. Although described as a STEM club activity, you could use the ideas as part of a packaging scheme of work linked to reducing food waste.
Packaging Design
This packagin design activity encourages students to think about the skills they are using and whether they would make a good graphic designer.
