Environmental Issues
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Question types: short answer, fill the gap, true or false, matching.
About this resource
Eduqas/WJEC ICT 5539, Unit 1 (1.3.6) — the environmental impact of ICT, followed all the way through a device's life: the materials mined to build it, the factories that assemble it, green and non-green ways of using it, and what happens when it is thrown away.
18 slides.
Lesson outline
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- Quick Check — Green or Non-Green?
- Green IT — Reducing the Impact
- Non-Green IT — Increasing the Impact
- Hinge Question — What Actually Counts as Green IT?
- E-Waste — What Happens When a Device Is Thrown Away
- Weighing Up E-Waste
- Rare Earth Element Mining
- Hinge Question — Why Are They Called 'Rare'?
- Global Production Lines
- Main Activity, Part 1 — Plan Your Answer
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