Provided by: Council on Foreign Relations |Published on: September 14, 2023
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Synopsis
This article provides a detailed explanation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and includes graphs, tables, infographics, and colorful images.
Students will learn the history of the SDGs, the focus and interconnectedness of the SDGs, and how close the goals are to being achieved.
This text stresses the interconnectedness of the Sustainable Development Goals.
As each policy/improvement is mentioned, they picture the many goals that are involved.
Additional Prerequisites
Students may need the terms degradation, impoverished, developing country, developed country, municipality, and others defined prior to reading the article.
Students should know what the United Nations is and how countries work together to promote the common good.
Differentiation
Students can discuss the tradeoffs that countries experience as they achieve certain goals, such as the environmental tradeoff as a result of China's poverty-reducing measures.
Each student can choose one of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals to further research and produce an informative piece of writing about, including success criteria and current policies contributing to this goal in their own country or country of interest.
Civics students describe how a country might design improvements through policy to contribute to the SDGs.
As inequality, poverty, access to education, and gender equality are all pieces of the SDGs, students may want to research the history of inequality in a country of their choice.
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