Lesson Plan Goal: GOAL 04: Quality Education
All Are Welcome / Be an Upstander
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Laurie Newhouse from Dillard Drive Magnet Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: After learning their rights and responsibilities, students will practice them by becoming upstanders who show respect through their actions and words by creating banners and posters to demonstrate “All are welcome” and by building a caring school community. SUGGESTED…
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Annotated Bibliography
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By 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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Empowering Poetry: Educating Women, Improving the World
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By Kate Wernersbach from Wake Early College of Health and Sciences OVERVIEW OF LESSON: This lesson is designed to create awareness about UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4): Quality Education and Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5): Gender Equality through literature and nonfiction texts. For an entire unit, students…
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Exploring the Challenges of Food Security in Global Communities: A Research Simulation
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 6-8By 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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Malala: Gender Rights Leader and Refugee
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By Holly Kolarova from Clear Creek Elementary OVERVIEW OF LESSON: Students will review a picture book and an informational text about Malala Yousafzai and identify what factors forced Malala’s family to become refugees. Students will identify UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that are relevant to Malala’s situation, including quality education…
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Migration is a Universal Human Experience
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: K-5By 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, 9-12By 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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Sustainable Tourism throughout the Spanish-Speaking World
Year: 2022-2023 | Level: 9-12By 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 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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