Ethics and Sustainability in Renewable Energy Careers

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• collaboration
• communication
• ethical understanding
• social skills

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description:  Year 7 & 8, Design and Technologies

Students learn to: 

• analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments (AC9TDE8K01).

Relevant parts of Year 8 achievement standards: Students can explain how social, ethical, technical and sustainability considerations influence the design of innovative and enterprising solutions to meet a range of present and future needs. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: 

Stage 4 Design and Technology

• describes the work and responsibilities of designers and the factors affecting their work (DT4-4)
• describes designed solutions that consider preferred futures, the principles of appropriate technology, and ethical and responsible design (DT4-5)

General capabilities: Ethical Understanding, Intercultural Understanding, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures, Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low/Medium: facilitate discussions and group work.

UN SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth

• Target 8.4: Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead.

• A3 paper (1 or 2 sheets per group)
• Coloured pencils and texters (optional)
• Coloured paper, glue and scissors (optional)
• Printed copies of Roles Information Cards (if not using them online)
• Printed copies of Virtues and Character Traits (optional)
• Student access to devices

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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