The life cycle assessment of everyday objects

This educational resource has been made as part of the Digital Impressions project and has been last updated at 16.19.2025.

The resource encompasses a complete guide for teaching sustainability through objects. The table of content exists of:

Reason for doing a life cycle assessment...........................................................................2
Limitations..........................................................................................................................2
Target audience..................................................................................................................3
Learning objectives............................................................................................................3
Activity................................................................................................................................4
Resources...........................................................................................................................5
Variations............................................................................................................................5
Variation 1: mini LCA........................................................................................................5
Variation 2: full LCA project.............................................................................................6
Appendix 1: assignment sheet............................................................................................7
Reference list.....................................................................................................................8

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Keywords: Object Based Teaching and Learning, OBTL, sustainability, duurzaamheid, cradle to cradle, cradle to grave, Life cycle assessment, objects


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