This information handout has information about different types of glass and their uses.
Design and Technologies
History of glass
Curriculum area(s): Sustainability, history, Science, Design and technologies Year level(s): 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Format: Single page PDF handout Source: Associate Professor Andreas Helwig Additional information: This single page PDF has information about the history of glass. It explains the nature of glass, its early history, and some important properties.
21st century glass
A single page PDF handout about modern glass with information about how it is produced and coloured.
Glass challenge for students
Kitchen Garden Foundation
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation provides professional development, educational resources and access to the Shared Table, our online community of educators. Our Support Team will help you choose the best tools to get your kitchen garden program growing.
Glass sorting
Glass is an extremely durable material, though fragile, and can be recycled many times. Recycling glass requires far less energy than manufacturing it from raw materials, saving both cost and environmental damage. The PowerPoint file presents information about recycling glass, including a video linked from YouTube, and challenges students to sort glass from mixed waste as would be required for recycling.
Weigh your waste
This activity is designed to be completed in class over a period of a week or a little more. It requires students to collect, weigh, record, and analyse the waste they produce during the week. It will help them to realise how much waste is generated and to recognise the differences between general waste, recycled products, and reusable materials. There are questions to help with their thinking about the issues.
Advanced manufacturing and glass
This presentation addresses how braiding fibres can increase strength with a video demonstration of a braider that can handle up to 144 strands. There are questions for students to answer.
Small materials recovery
Separating materials in a materials recovery facility requires a lot of work. Can you imagine how hard robots or machines have to work to do that job with tonnes and tonnes of waste material? This experiment will give you some idea.
Glass challenge
This presentation is designed to engage students in investigating the nature and some history of glass from ancient times to current types and applications.
