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About The Resource
The Community Creators Unit of Work is a ten-week design thinking program that challenges students to explore how simple, creative ideas can improve everyday life within local communities. Inspired by the global concept of The Fun Theory, students investigate how positive behaviour can be encouraged through engaging design, practical innovation and community centred thinking.
Throughout the unit, students work collaboratively in teams to identify a local issue they care about and develop an innovative solution that encourages people to take positive action. Challenges may focus on areas such as waste, recycling, transport, inclusion, kindness, public spaces, or community participation. Using a structured innovation process, students move from empathy and research through to ideation, prototyping and pitching.
Across ten weeks, students explore user needs, develop personas, analyse examples of creative behaviour change campaigns from around the world and build minimum viable products that demonstrate how their ideas could work in practice. They are encouraged to test assumptions, gather feedback and refine their concepts based on real user perspectives.
The unit culminates in a final pitch presentation where each team presents their solution, explains the challenge they are addressing and demonstrates how their concept could create meaningful change within their community. Students are encouraged to communicate their thinking visually through slides, mock-ups, sketches, or prototype examples.
This unit develops critical future focused capabilities including collaboration, problem solving, communication, empathy, creative thinking and entrepreneurial mindset. It also supports cross-curricular learning by connecting design thinking with civics, social innovation, sustainability, and local community engagement.
Age Group
High School Students
Learning Time
10 x 1-hour lessons of content designed to be delivered over the course of a school term.
Student Output
Students develop and pitch a community innovation concept along with designing visual materials, prototypes, or supporting assets that demonstrate how their solution would encourage positive behaviour and improve an everyday local challenge.
Delivery Format
This resource is delivered as a digital bundle that includes editable Word documents and PowerPoint slide decks for teachers, along with printable PDF templates and assessment sheets for student use.
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What's Included
Upon purchasing the Community Creators Unit of Work, you will receive a downloadable bundle of teaching resources designed to support the delivery of a full project based learning unit centred around community innovation, behaviour change and creative problem solving.
The resource package includes a mix of editable teaching materials and ready to use student templates to help educators deliver the program with ease. The unit overview, unit plan and lesson slide decks are provided in editable formats so teachers can adapt the materials to suit their classroom and curriculum needs. Student facing resources such as templates and task sheets are provided as PDF documents ready to print or distribute digitally.
Included in this bundle:
Unit Overview (3 Page PDF): A high level overview of the unit, outlining the key learning outcomes, project structure, weekly themes and assessment task.
Unit Plan (10+ Pages – Editable Word Document): A detailed week by week breakdown of the unit including learning objectives, lesson activities, discussion prompts, and materials required.
Lesson Slide Decks (10 x Editable PowerPoint Documents): Presentation slides designed to guide each stage of the unit, introducing concepts, activities, case studies and prompts to support student learning.
Challenge Task Sheet (PDF): A clear student facing brief outlining the challenge, design focus, and final pitch expectations.
Printable Student Templates (7 x Printable PDFs): A collection of printable worksheets designed to support empathy activities, ideation, concept development and pitch preparation.
These resources have been designed to support educators in delivering a complete community innovation project, giving students the tools and structure they need to explore local challenges, develop creative solutions, and communicate ideas with confidence.
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