Exploring Battery Storage Technology

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

• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• collaboration
• communication
• community engagement
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• initiative
• problem-solving

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9, Science

Students learn to:

• analyse the key factors that contribute to science knowledge and practices being adopted more broadly by society (AC9S9H03)
• write and create texts to communicate ideas, findings and arguments effectively for identified purposes and audiences, including selection of appropriate content, language and text features, using digital tools as appropriate(AC9S9I08).

Relevant parts of Year 9 achievement standards: Students can analyse the different ways in which science and society are interconnected. They select and use content, language and text features effectively to achieve their purpose when communicating their ideas, findings and arguments to specific audiences.

NSW Syllabus outcomes: 

• evaluates current and alternative energy use based on ethical and sustainability considerations (SC5-EGY-01)
• communicates scientific arguments with evidence, using scientific language and terminology in a range of communication forms (SC5-WS-08)

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Personal and Social Capability

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium: facilitate class discussion, research and group work.

UN SDG 7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.

• Target 7:1 By 2030, ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services.

• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• A3 paper 
• Post-it notes
• Student devices for individual research

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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