Teaching Skills and Jobs for a Transitioned Economy

  • Teaching Net Zero Skills and Jobs

    Education resources to help teachers equip students with the skills and knowledge required for the jobs and career pathways that will sustain our transition to a net-zero economy.

What will it take to achieve net zero?


Addressing climate change and transitioning to a net-zero economy will involve everyone—from individuals to governments—working together to establish policies and design, manufacture and implement sustainable solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and removing carbon from the atmosphere.

The key to success? Skilled and passionate people dedicated to making a difference.

About these resources

These resources have been designed to boost teacher confidence in teaching about the impacts of climate change and transitioning to a net-zero economy using real-world examples.

They'll inspire your students to take socially and environmentally responsible action, develop young people's awareness of and confidence in becoming climate change entrepreneurs and increase student desire to consider future sustainability jobs that will be vital in our transition to a net zero economy.

Units

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Designing for Food and Farms into the Future

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Unit
  • ...

Habitats and Humanity

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Technology
  • Unit
  • ...

Exploring Earth’s Systems: Carbon, Climate and Renewable Energy

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Unit
  • ...

Powering the Future: Sustainable Energy Use and Production For a Net Zero Economy

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready

More organisations and information

There are many organisations out there doing amazing things to support our transition to net-zero. Here are just a few you might like to check out.

Terra.do (think Seek but only jobs that are verified climate jobs)
Clean Energy Council's Careers for Net Zero Platform
Tomorrow Movement
Beyond Zero Emissions

Image credit: Careers for Net Zero.
This image originally appeared on the Careers for Net Zero website.

Primary lessons for climate solutions

  • Lesson
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The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
  • ...

How Can Bush Foods Help Agriculture?

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
  • ...

Technology and Agriculture

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Lesson
  • ...

Design a Sustainable Farm for the Future

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
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Primary lessons for exploring habitats

  • Lesson
  • ...

How Do Habitats Change?

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Lesson
  • ...

Ecosystem Disruption

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Lesson
  • ...

The Impacts of Climate Change on the Environment

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Lesson
  • ...

Clean Energy and the Environment

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Technology
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Secondary lessons for exploring our Earth’s systems

  • Lesson
  • ...

Renewable Energy and Its Impacts on Earth’s Spheres

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Citizen Science
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

What Is Carbon Capture and How Does It Affect the Carbon Cycle?

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

What Causes Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

How Does Climate Change Affect Earth's Spheres?

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Systems Thinking
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Secondary lessons for sustainable energy

  • Lesson
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Energy Efficiency: From Theory to Electricity Generation

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

Using Nature as Inspiration to Engineer Renewable Energy Efficiency

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

Design a Net Zero Home Using Scientific Knowledge

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
  • ...

Careers in Energy That Can Make a Difference to Climate Change

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
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