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The document emphasizes the importance of integrating the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into education by promoting community-centered learning that connects local issues to global sustainability. It encourages teachers to engage students in real-world challenges and interdisciplinary learning to prepare them for future careers and civic participation. Additionally, it highlights the need for equity in teaching about the SDGs and suggests various actions educators can take to incorporate these goals into their curriculum.

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STEM-Teaching-Tool-93-Sustainable-Development-Goals

The document emphasizes the importance of integrating the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into education by promoting community-centered learning that connects local issues to global sustainability. It encourages teachers to engage students in real-world challenges and interdisciplinary learning to prepare them for future careers and civic participation. Additionally, it highlights the need for equity in teaching about the SDGs and suggests various actions educators can take to incorporate these goals into their curriculum.

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STEM

TEACHING TOOL

#93

Think globally, act locally: Promote the


Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
through community-centered learning

What Is The Issue? WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU


Teachers should engage students in
To promote global well-being and to prepare students community-centered learning and help
and communities for future success in a global economy, them connect this learning to global
issues, civic engagement, and solutions.
we should provide them with opportunities to study
local issues and understand how these issues fit into the District Staff & PD Providers should
provide teachers with opportunities to
fabric of global sustainability—practices that support learn about the SDGs and incorporate
ecological, human, and economic health. The United them into their curriculum in locally
Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, relevant ways.

describe current global goals, such as ending poverty, School Leaders should support
teachers as they implement SDG-
good health, clean water, clean energy, and equity. They based lessons by connecting teachers
offer educators practical ways to focus instruction on to community members working in
meaningful local and global phenomena that connect sustainability and by providing time for
them to collaborate with colleagues on
to students’ lives. They also highlight key intersections enacting interdisciplinary instruction.
between STEM, economics, social behavior, and politics.

BY JANET CHARNLEY, JOHN OLSON, DEB L. MORRISON, AND JEANNE NORRIS | MAY 2023 STEMteachingtools.org/brief/93
Things To Consider REFLECTION
• Both global and U.S. workforce reports show shifts in the types of careers QUESTIONS
that will be in demand in the future. Students are increasingly likely to
What issues are my students,
work on issues connected to local and global sustainability, including in
their families, and their
economic, social, ecological, and technological fields.
communities most concerned
• In 2020, Education for sustainable development: A roadmap linked about? How do these connect to
the SDGs to needed educational efforts in schools around the world. the SDGs?
UNESCO has created a learning objective guidance document for the
What actions are organizations
SDGs. These reports provide a background for sustainability education.
or governments in your
• As youth engage globally through social media, they are gaining a community developing to
broader awareness and concern around sustainability issues around the address these issues? How can
globe. This increased awareness means they are often ready to take up you help your students imagine
learning that involves community action. The SDGs are a useful frame to and propose other possible
connect local phenomena and action to the wider global problems youth actions to be taken?
are seeing online, helping young people make sense of these issues and
How are you designing
situate themselves within larger movements and historical forces.
learning focused on real-
• Student engagement in learning about the SDGs requires them to use world challenges that will
a range of science practices, content knowledge, and cross-cutting help students develop
conceptual lenses—which aligns learning about the SDGs with three- interdisciplinary knowledge
dimensional science education. Fully engaging with the SDGs pushes and practices needed for future
young people and educators to be interdisciplinary, creating meaningful, careers and civic participation?
real-world learning and action opportunities.

Recommended Actions You Can Take


• Learn more about how to connect local and place-based phenomena Attending to Equity
with SDG learning goals. Use these goal-based educational resources
• The SDGs are deeply grounded in social
from UNESCO and others to design phenomena-based learning.
and multispecies justice. Teaching about
• Explore teacher-focused learning strategies and lesson resources that them promotes global equity.
are used internationally to promote SDG integration in STEM learning
• All cultures have histories of
produced by UNESCO, the Center for Global Education, the Smithsonian,
sustainability practices that can be
the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation, and World’s Largest
showcased. Teachers should encourage
Lesson. Explore curriculum that makes local-to-global connections, such
students to bring their own cultural
as ones on global food challenges or energy sources. Design lessons that
practices into learning contexts.
engage students in civic, solutions-oriented learning connected to global
issues, such as on the SDGs and Project Drawdown. • All students can connect the SDGs to
their own interests and needs in their
• Examine how SDGs can be connected to science concepts or
communities, making learning more
sustainability learning standards. Connect with educators in your school
engaging and meaningful.
to design an interdisciplinary lessons around one or several of the SDGs.
• Preparing all youth for the modern
• Sustainability education can occur in many locations, from the outdoors
workforce requires learning experiences
to laboratories. Connect to youth organizations to support student
that are sustainability-focused and
learning in diverse contexts around actions that students can take, such
interdisciplinary.
as SDG Student Resources, 4H, Scouts, Rotary, etc.

ALSO SEE STEM TEACHING TOOLS:


#57 Place-Based Education
#67 Justice-Centered Phenomena
#74 Community Science

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STEMteachingtools.org/brief/93
Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Opinions expressed are not those of any funding agency.

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