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.

Units

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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
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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
  • Unit
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Habitats and Humanity

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

More organisations and information

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.

Secondary lessons for exploring our Earth’s systems

  • Lesson
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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
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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
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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
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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
  • Lesson
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How Do Combustion Reactions Affect the Carbon Cycle?

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Earth and Space
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Disaster resilience
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Systems Thinking
  • Technology

Secondary lessons for sustainable energy

  • Lesson
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Energy: Transfers and Transformations in the Generation of Electricity

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • 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
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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
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Energy: Thermal Energy and Methods of Transfer

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
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Thermal Energy and Efficiency: Harnessing Electromagnetic Radiation

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
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Understanding Energy Efficiency of Household Appliances

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

Understanding Energy Efficiency of Buildings

  • Secondary
  • Year 9
  • Science
  • Physics
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Job Ready
  • Lesson
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Investigating Net Zero Homes for a Net Zero Future

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

Using Your Scientific Knowledge to Inspire People to Make a Difference

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

Primary lessons for exploring habitats

  • Lesson
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What is a Habitat?

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Biology
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Conservation
  • Lesson
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How Do Habitats Change?

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

Carbon and Capture

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Science
  • Chemistry
  • Environmental
  • Climate Change
  • Lesson
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Clean Energy and the Environment

  • Primary
  • Year 6
  • Environmental
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Energy
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
  • Technology

Primary lessons for climate solutions

  • Lesson
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What is Agriculture?

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
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First Nations’ Fish Traps

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Social
  • Indigenous Education
  • Lesson
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The Environmental Impacts of Agriculture

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
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The Role of Soil in Agriculture

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson
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How Can Bush Foods Help Agriculture?

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

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

  • Primary
  • Year 5 - 6
  • Technology
  • Design and Technologies
  • Environmental
  • Land Management
  • Sustainability
  • Economic
  • Design Thinking
  • Lesson
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Design a Sustainable Farm for the Future

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

About the resources

These resources, designed for Primary and Secondary, help teachers boost awareness and interest in net-zero energy jobs. Each resource is aligned to the Australian curriculum. They cover the following subjects: Biology, Earth and Space Sciences, Design and Technology and Physical Sciences.

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