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Interactive Video: Understanding the Mindset              Do you know all 17 SDGs?  

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Interactive Video: Understanding the Mindset              Do you know all 17 SDGs?  

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity.

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📚 Curated Resources to Share (PDFs & Podcasts)

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📚 Curated Resources to Share (PDFs & Podcasts)

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These resources offer ready-to-use classroom ideas, global perspectives, and practical strategies to help foster a mindset of sustainability in your students.

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Curated Resources to Share (PDFs & Podcasts)

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"How Many SDGs Can You Name?" (5 minutes)

Let’s start with a quick challenge to get us thinking. You have one minute. Turn to someone sitting near you—your neighbor, someone behind or in front of you—and work together to list as many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as you can. Try to recall them from memory. No Googling, no phones—just see what you already know!"

Remember!

"Whether you remembered 3 or 13, it’s okay. What matters is that these goals become part of how we think and teach. Because even though the SDGs are global, real change begins locally—in our classrooms, with our students, through the way we educate for a better future."

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"Now let’s bring it closer to home. We’ve seen the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—now let’s connect them to what we actually teach."

Instructions:

1. “Think about the subject or age group you teach. Look at the SDG list or screen, and choose one SDG that connects most closely to your classroom.”

2. “Now turn to a partner and answer this question:
👉 How can this SDG show up in your subject or a classroom activity?
You’ve got 2 minutes—go!”

"Every subject has a doorway into sustainability. It’s not about changing what we teach—it’s about changing how we teach it. With small shifts, we can bring real-world relevance into the classroom and grow a generation that thinks sustainably."

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Group Task: “Spot the Link – Sustainability Across Subjects”

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Group Task: “Spot the Link – Sustainability Across Subjects”

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This map shows that sustainability isn’t a separate subject—it’s a thread that weaves through every discipline. Whether it’s eco-literacy in English, ethical debates in Social Studies, green design in Technology, or sustainable data in Math—every educator has a door into this conversation.

Small Group Task:

With a partner or your table group, choose any 2–3 images from the map. For each image, answer:
— What subject does this connect to?
— How could I use this image to spark a discussion or mini-lesson in my class?”

Volunteers groups must share their answers:

Which image did you choose?

What subject did you link it to?

How might you use it in your teaching?

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Sustainability Lesson Plan: All Subjects | Any Age | Any Learning Environment | Open Source and Free-shared

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An open source/free-shared and globally collaborative lesson plan with the central theme of “Sustainability.” It is for teaching all educational subjects to all educational levels in any learning environment. Purposed for teachers and learners/students, this lesson plan is for use in community education environments, homeschool environments, traditional schooling environments, or as a supplemental and fun addition to any education program. As part of the complete Education for Life Program, this lesson plan is also specifically designed to work in conjunction with the other components: Foundations of Teaching, Curriculum, Teaching Strategies, Learning Tools and Toys, Evaluation Model, and The Ultimate Classroom.

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Personal Experience: Global Schools Advocate Program

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Personal Experience: Global Schools Advocate Program

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The Global Schools Advocate Program is an initiative by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) under the Global Schools Program. It aims to empower teachers and educators around the world to become advocates for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within their schools and communities.

Advocates are selected from across the globe and are provided with professional development, training resources, and global collaboration opportunities. They are tasked with:

Promoting awareness of the 17 SDGs in school environments

Supporting fellow educators in integrating sustainability into their teaching

Creating action-oriented learning experiences

Fostering a culture of global citizenship among students

Through this program, educators become leaders of change, helping shape a future generation that is informed, empathetic, and equipped to tackle global challenges.

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Global Schools Advocates Program

"Education for Sustainable Development and for global citizenship will empower today's young people to become knowledgeable, effective and compassionate leaders of the future. The UN member states were wise to include SDG Target 4.7 as a key enabler of the SDGs."

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- Jeffrey D. Sachs, President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

It is crucial that students develop the knowledge and skills to navigate the challenges of the 21st century, and there is compelling evidence linking sustainable development education with increased student academic performance and 21st-century skills. Despite the overwhelming evidence of the benefits of ESD, this type of transformative education is not integrated into all classrooms globally. A global UNESCO survey of 58,000 teachers found that over 80% of teachers were interested in education for sustainable development; however, over half of the respondents faced challenges teaching SD because they were not familiar with suitable pedagogies, and training opportunities did not exist. Across the world, only 8% of countries have integrated sustainable development (SD) into teacher education (GEMR, 2016). Therefore, Global Schools (GS) promotes transformative change in classrooms by integrating sustainable development concepts into teacher training to improve student learning.

GS' flagship initiative is the GS Advocates Program, a 6-month long training and advocacy program for educators and school leaders working in primary and secondary schools globally. The training program was developed after surveying 220 local sustainable development champions and 40+ educators. The training includes 30+ lectures, original readings, and comprehensive assessments. 17 supporting documents compile the Global Schools Advocates toolkit, which assists teachers in ESD implementation via a specific action-research methodology to incorporate ESD in schools and improve education delivery. Within one year, teachers and school leaders who completed the program collectively engaged nearly 108,112 students in 7,300+ classroom lessons and activities on ESD and trained 12,300+ additional teachers via the program's trainers-of-trainers model.

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Global Schools Advocates Program "Education for Sustainable Development and for global citizenship will empower today's young people to become knowledgeable, effective and compassionate leaders of the future. The UN member states were wise to include SDG Target 4.7 as a key enabler of the SDGs." ​ - Jeffrey D.

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Treat it as if it’s “waste” (something they’d normally discard after a session).

👉 “Now let’s rethink this. What if this paper wasn’t waste? What can you turn it into, sustainably, in your classroom?”

Upcycling ideas:

✂️ Fold it into an origami bookmark with an environmental message.

🪴 Roll it into a mini plant pot starter for seedlings (for science/sustainability lessons).

🎨 Turn it into a “gratitude leaf” or “eco-pledge” card—write one small sustainable action and post it on a classroom “green tree” board.

🎲 Make a quick DIY dice for green-themed quizzes or activities.