Lesson summary
Students will analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical, security and sustainability factors to innovate and improve products, services and environments by exploring how electricity is transmitted from power plants to communities, homes, and workplaces. They will investigate suitable locations for transmission lines and understand the roles and technologies involved. Additionally, they will make judgments on how landscape factors and technologies control engineered systems.
Learning intentions:
Students will...
- understand how electricity is transmitted from power plants into our communities, homes and workplaces
- investigate appropriate places for transmission lines
- learn about the roles and technologies involved
Success criteria:
Students can...
- describe how electricity is delivered to communities using infrastructure
- plan for transmission line locations based on a variety of ethical and environmental considerations, as well as technologies available and explain some of the job roles involved.
Lesson guides and printables
Lesson details
Skills
This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:
- creative thinking
- critical thinking
- collaboration
- communication
- community engagement
- curiosity
- problem-solving
- prototyping
Curriculum Mapping
Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 & 10, Design and Technologies
Students learn to:
- analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical, security and sustainability factors to innovate and improve products, services and environments (AC9TDE10K01)
- analyse and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to control engineered systems (AC9TDE10K03)
Relevant parts of Year 9 & 10 achievement standards: Students can explain how people consider factors that impact on design decisions and the technologies used to design and produce products, services and environments for sustainable living. For one or more of the technologies contexts, students explain the features of technologies and their appropriateness for purpose, and create designed solutions based on an analysis of needs or opportunities.
NSW Syllabus outcomes:
- evaluates and explains the impact of past, current and emerging technologies on the individual, society and environments (DT5-3)
- evaluates designed solutions that consider preferred futures, the principles of appropriate technology, and ethical and responsible design (DT5-5)
General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding
Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Sustainability
Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium: facilitate class discussion on transmission lines, job roles and the choices people make about working in certain conditions.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Target 9.1: Develop quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, including regional and transborder infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being, with a focus on affordable and equitable access for all
Resources Required
- Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
- Printouts of your local area (see Teacher Content Information)
- Student devices for individual research
Additional Info
This lesson has been developed in partnership with the Queensland Government through Queensland's Clean Energy Workforce Roadmap. Cool.org would like to acknowledge and express our gratitude to the Clean Energy Council for the expertise and advice provided in creating these resources.
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