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Annotated Bibliography

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12

By Angela Love Moser from Innovation Early College High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will conduct research on a problem in the world today and connect this problem to at least three of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Then, students will identify six to eight sources and use the…
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Diet, Health and Food Systems

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8

By Yusupha Auber from East Cary Magnet Middle School: Center for Global Studies & World Languages OVERVIEW OF LESSON: In the early morning, my students regularly consume Takis, Doritos, various sweets, and caffeinated energy drinks with more than the recommended daily serving of sugar. Often, when they ask for something…
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Exploring the Challenges of Food Security in Global Communities: A Research Simulation

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8

By Alissa M. McElreath from Dillard Drive Magnet Middle School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After researching the Global Food Security Index, students will select a global community and make an argument for which of Michael Pollan’s four food chains (Industrial, Industrial-Organic, Local and Sustainable, Hunter-Gatherer) would best address issues of food…
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Migration is a Universal Human Experience

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5

By Holly Kolarova from Clear Creek Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will read two historical fiction picture books based on real people that experienced the act of migration in their lives. Students will understand what a migrant is, the push and pull reasons for migration, the hardships migrants face, and…
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SDG Achieved! Choose a Country. Create a Plan.

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8, 9-12

By 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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Sustainable Tourism throughout the Spanish-Speaking World

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12

By Jennifer Nichols from Cox Mill High School OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After identifying a country in the Spanish-speaking world and the environmental, cultural, and other important impacts caused by tourism, students will identify connections to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Students will explain the impacts of tourism, both…
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The Dirty Truth About Germs

Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8

By 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: 9-12

By 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: 9-12

By 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: 6-8

By 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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