Curriculum Year: 2022-2023
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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The UN as a Peace and Justice Institution
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Denise-Marie Copeland from The Center of Applied Sciences and Technology (The COAST) OVERVIEW OF LESSON: How successful has the United Nations been as a Peace and Justice Institution? Using a collaborative jigsaw strategy, students investigate three contemporary conflicts. Students use a graphic organizer to record and compare information about…
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The United States & Beyond: Sustainable Development Issues in the U.S. and the Spanish Speaking World
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Jennifer Nichols from Cox Mill High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After selecting and researching one United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), students will create a final product that compares and contrasts the challenges and progress toward achieving that goal in the United States and a selected Spanish-speaking country. Students…
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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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UNSDG Mini-Golf Course
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Angela Love Moser from Innovation Early College High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will work in pairs to research a chosen UN Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) that will become the thematic basis of a mini-golf course hole. As a group, students will complete an entire UNSDG-themed mini-golf course that…
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Water Disparities
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Maggie LeGrand from North Gaston High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: As students investigate water scarcity in the United States, China and other regions of the world they will analyze how water scarcity impacts marginalized communities and identify how stakeholders can reduce water consumption to improve water access. This lesson…
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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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