Ethics and Sustainability in Wind Energy Careers

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

• collaboration
• communication
• ethical understanding
• initiative
• global citizenship

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)
• analyse the impact of innovation and the development of technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures (AC9TDE8K02).

Relevant parts of Year 7 & 8 achievement standards: Students can explain how people design, innovate and produce products, services and environments for preferred futures. Students can explain how the features of technologies impact design decisions, and create designed solutions based on analysis of needs or opportunities.

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: Intercultural Understanding, Literacy, Personal and Social Capability

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

Level of teacher scaffolding: Low/medium: students may need help choosing a job to research and relating jobs to the wind energy sector.

UN SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth

• Target 8.2 Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors.  
• 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.

• Devices for students to conduct online research
• Device to show videos
• Student Worksheet

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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