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Build an Eco-Friendly Café

Design a café that produces almost no waste — menu, packaging, energy and all.

Your mission

Design a café that could run for a week with almost no rubbish.

Learning goals

  • • Analyse where waste comes from
  • • Design for sustainability
  • • Present a costed proposal

You'll need

  • • Paper
  • • Recycled packaging samples
  • • Colours

Optional: Camera or tablet for photos of your work

  • Wash hands after handling recycled packaging.

Project stages

0/6 tasks

Discover

~30 min

Find out what you already know and gather ideas before you start building.

  • Waste audit

    Look at a real café or your kitchen bin — where does the waste come from?

    ~30 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your discover work and explain why you chose it.

Plan

~35 min

Turn your ideas into a plan you can actually follow.

  • Zero-waste menu

    Design a menu where every ingredient gets fully used.

    ~35 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your plan work and explain why you chose it.

Create

~55 min

Make the main part of your project.

  • Design the café

    Draw your café: seating, energy, packaging and compost.

    ~55 min · Parent guidance: Stay nearby for set-up, then let your learner lead.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your create work and explain why you chose it.

Test

~25 min

Try it out and see what works.

  • Waste check

    Count how much rubbish your design would still create in a week.

    ~25 min · Parent guidance: Stay nearby for set-up, then let your learner lead.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your test work and explain why you chose it.

Improve

~25 min

Use what you learned to make it better.

  • Cut it further

    Change two things to reduce that waste again.

    ~25 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your improve work and explain why you chose it.

Present

~25 min

Share your work with your family or group.

  • Owner's pitch

    Present your café concept and its environmental impact.

    ~25 min · Parent guidance: Check in at the end of the task and talk it through together.

    Extra challenge: add one more detail to your present work and explain why you chose it.

Australian Curriculum links

Science · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply Science skills while planning, making and presenting "Build an Eco-Friendly Café".

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Mathematics · Measurement and Space

Learners apply Mathematics skills while planning, making and presenting "Build an Eco-Friendly Café".

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Technologies · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply Technologies skills while planning, making and presenting "Build an Eco-Friendly Café".

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Humanities and Social Sciences · Inquiry and skills

Learners apply Humanities and Social Sciences skills while planning, making and presenting "Build an Eco-Friendly Café".

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Reflection

  • • What part of this project are you most proud of?
  • • What was tricky, and how did you work it out?
  • • What would you change if you did it again?
  • • What is one new thing you can now explain to someone else?

Completion checklist

  • ☐ All stages marked complete
  • ☐ Final product finished
  • ☐ Evidence uploaded (photo, writing, audio or video)
  • ☐ Reflection questions answered
  • ☐ Presented to family or group
  • ☐ Parent review complete