Renewable Energy and Its Impacts on Earth’s Spheres

• Collaboration
• Curiosity
• Ethical Understanding
• Communication
• Reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: Year 9 Earth and Space Sciences

• Represent the carbon cycle and examine how key processes including combustion, photosynthesis and respiration rely on interactions between Earth’s spheres (the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere (AC9S9U03).
• Analyse the key factors that contribute to science knowledge and practices being adopted more broadly by society (AC9S9H04).

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability

Syllabus outcomes: Stage 5 ES3

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Relevant parts of Year 9 Science achievement standards:

Students can explain how interactions within and between Earth’s spheres affect the carbon cycle and analyse the different ways in which science and society are interconnected.

• Device capable of presenting audiovisual recordings
• Student devices for research

This unit of lessons, along with the other units in the Skills and Jobs For a Transitioned Economy package, aim to teach students how to be climate solution entrepreneurs. These lessons will equip students with the relevant skills and knowledge of jobs and career pathways that will be able to sustain our economy once it has transitioned away from fossil fuels. Cool.org thanks our philanthropic partners, the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Boundless Earth, for their generous contributions in helping us to create these resources.