Curriculum Level: 6-8
SDG Achieved! Choose a Country. Create a Plan.
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8, 9-12By Ashley Grant from Greene County Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Working collaboratively, students will develop an action plan to solve a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in one country by the year 2030. Students will research the targets for their SDG, focusing on national level strategies and solutions…
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Sea Ice Impacts on a Subsistence Lifestyle
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12Students will be introduced to the subsistence lifestyle through the interconnected lenses of changing climate, food insecurity, and decreasing sea ice. Students will become familiar with the location of Savoonga, Alaska, home to a Siberian Yupik community, within the Arctic region as a whole, as well as be able to…
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Still Here: Listening to Native American Women’s Voices
Year: 2023-2024 | Level: 6-8, 9-12This lesson is an opportunity for students to recognize that Native American women’s stories offer valuable insights on their life experiences and American history. Students will learn about Native American women, listen to their stories, and recognize that these voices offer contributions to enrich their understanding of US history and…
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Sustainable Development and Balanced Art
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Patti Donohue from Johnson Street Global Studies OVERVIEW OF LESSON: In this lesson, students will be introduced to two photographers, Camille Seaman and Chris Jordan, whose work incorporates themes of climate change and mass consumerism (Sustainable Development Goals 12 and 13). Students will hear Camille Seaman reflect on the…
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The Dirty Truth About Germs
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Kristen Cox from East Cary Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson highlights how diseases spread. It gives students insight into places that do not have access to clean water and sanitation and how that impacts the people’s overall well being. This lesson connects Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)…
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Understanding Housing and the Sustainable Development Goals
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Sean Wheat from Oberlin Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: A new mixed-use community is being developed next to our school. This will increase the number of dwellings within the footprint. The overall goal is to analyze what are the elements of adequate housing and how those elements relate…
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Welcome to My Life
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By Alissa McElreath from Dillard Drive Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Throughout this unit, students will investigate what external factors impact a child’s access to education. Students will gain an overview of all 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and work closely with SDG 1: No Poverty and…
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What If? An SDG Children’s Book
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8, 9-12By Ashley Grant from Greene County Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will select a UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) and conduct research to investigate the current state of the world and its progress towards meeting their chosen SDG. Students will then create a children’s book that details what they…
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