Queensland’s Clean Energy Vision: Projects and Professions

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

• communication
• curiosity
• digital literacy
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 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 the impact of innovation, enterprise and emerging technologies on designed solutions for global preferred futures (AC9TDE10K02).

Relevant parts of Year 9 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. They explain the contribution of innovation, enterprise skills and emerging technologies to global preferred futures. 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: 

Stage 5 Design and Technology

• analyses the work and responsibilities of designers and the factors affecting their work (DT5-4)
• evaluates designed solutions that consider preferred futures, the principles of appropriate technology, and ethical and responsible design (DT5-5)

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

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability

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

UN SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and foster innovation

• 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.

• Device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• Student devices for individual research
• Student Worksheet
• Whiteboard and whiteboard markers

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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