Toolkit for the Interdisciplinary Infusion of the SDGs into Classrooms

Communications

The following resources will provide instructors with materials to support, introduce and infuse the SDGs into their Communications lessons.

  • Read the Careers lesson plan  that infuses SDGs #8 and #9. Students will explore career options, impacts on their lives and on the world around them, and careers in a global context through communcations.

  • Read the Child Brides: Stolen Lives lesson plan. It is from the United States Public Broadcasting System (PBS) series NOW. It provides a startling insight into the issue of child brides in many developing countries. The production team travelled to Niger, India and Guatemala to report on a global custom that devastates lives and keeps communities from prospering.

  • Read the Forced to Flee lesson plan. The learning objective is to transform thinking and inspire action around conflict, migration, and refugees. 
  • Visit My Hero Project  for lesson plans around media, art and technology. The website shines a light on positive role models to help students realize their own potential to make positive change in the world. 

  • Visit Learning for Justice for a Lesson Bank of ready-to-use classroom lessons that offer breadth and depth of essential social justice topics and can be filtered by level, subject, topic or social justice domain. 
  • Visit the SDG Academy Library for free, open educational resources. Content can be searched by language, SDG, series and subject.

  • Visit the Wakelet SDG page for lesson plans, links, videos, student challenges, activities, infographics and tasks for all of the 17 SDGs.
  • The Women in Coffee Project aims to create a platform for women who are leaders as coffee producers, importers, and exporters to offer their perspective in this complex industry.  It encourages independence and income for women coffee farmers in Kenya. Despite doing 70 per cent of the work growing coffee, many women are not given rights to what they grow. Women in Coffee demonstrates this by empowering women through sustainable jobs and an industry that is continually growing. 

  • The Sustainable Development Goals Fund has an online database of sustainable development case studies and a selection of effective practices on how to achieve a sustainable world while advancing the 17 SDGs.
  • Crafting Futures ensures a sustainable future for global crafts by providing education, training, and international partnership opportunities for artisans. Primarily women artisans improve their practices, set up businesses, and influence local craft markets, aligning with SDG 12’s goals of sustainable consumption and production patterns.
  • 30 Self Nudges for the SDGs is an SDG i-Level Project that launched the Self-Nudging Online Toolkit for University Staff on SDGs. Self-Nudges help remind university teachers and staff of the relevance of their work to the SDGs, prompting them to think about sustainable development, apply this mental framework to their work and as a result create more contributions to SDGs while feeling better about what they do. A continuous and reinforced engagement with the SDGs will create a mindset conducive to forging new individual contributions to sustainable development and the SDGs.
  • Read Advancing the SDGs at Canadian Universities.

  • Visit Alliance 87, an organization specifically focused on Target 8.7 and joining forces to provide educational resources, facts and graphics around ending forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking and child labour around the world. 

  • Visit NLP’s Checkology for lessons and resources to show you how to navigate today’s challenging information landscape. Learn how to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources, and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods. Checkology gives you the habits of mind and tools to evaluate and interpret information.

  • Visit CuriPow, a platform that lets curiosity empower people with a short untold story each day on the diversity of history through cultural identity and heritage. All the CuriShorts are researched and curated from The Library of Congress.

  • Visit DigCitCommitt to learn about teaching digital citizenship that encourages being inclusive, informed, engaged, balanced and alert.
  • Visit Faculty for a Future and search the Seed Library It is a searchable database of open-access educational resources that can support educators and students by integrating sustainability into discipline-specific teaching and learning. Search by issue, discipline, resource type and characteristic.
  • Visit GapMinder to learn about Dollar Street. Imagine the world as a street ordered by income, with the poorest living to the left and the richest to the right, with everyone else living somewhere in between. Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. They fight devastating misconceptions about global development with a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. They produce free teaching resources based on reliable statistics. They collaborate with universities, UN-based organizations, public agencies and non-governmental organizations. 

  • Find Geospatial data and timely data sets for countries around the world by SDG.

  • Visit the News Literacy Project (NLP)  a nonpartisan national education nonprofit. It provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy. 

  • Visit Reimagine Sustainability to find resources and articles to help you become a change agent and apply sustainability principles in your life as teacher or student through concept, mindset and action.
  • TeachSDGs helps instructors to connect to the SDGs through resources such as videos, global projects, social media and teacher connections.