IntroductionThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or 'Global Goals') are a set of 17 ambitious targets that aim to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.

In order to help your students understand the significance of these new Global Goals to their future, and the crucial role they could play in realising them, why not fit the goals into some of your lessons, deliver an assembly or carry out a special project with your students?

Within this Activity Kit:

Getting started provides an introductory activity for students to explore all of the Global Goals.

Getting critical suggests ways to critically analyse the different themes presented by the Global Goals.

Taking action suggests practical things schools and pupils can do to make the Global Goals better known.

Finally the Resources section provides information on where to find out more.

In the curriculumGeography KS3: understand, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at a variety of scales, the key processes in human geography relating to: population and urbanisation; international development; economic activity in the primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary sectors; and the use of natural resources.

Geography KS4: development; population; managing resources; climate change; sustainability;ecosystems; globalisation; economic activity.

Science KS3: nutrition; the production of carbon dioxide by human activity and the impact on climate.

Science KS4: Health, disease and the development of medicines; ecosystems; earth and atmospheric science; energy.

Citizenship KS3: the roles played by public institutions and voluntary groups in society, and the ways in which citizens work together to improve their communities, including opportunities to participate in school-based activities.

Citizenship KS4: local, regional and international governance and the UKs relations with the rest of Europe, the Commonwealth, the UN and the wider world; human rights and international law; the different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of his or her community, to include the opportunity to participate actively in community volunteering, as well as other forms of responsible activity.

See the individual goal pages on the Global Dimension website for lots more teaching ideas for various subjects: http://globaldimension.org.uk/worldslargestlesson/.

Global learning and the Global GoalsSecondary Activity Kit

Getting critical: 10 critical questionsAt Think Global, we have created a set of 10 critical questions that can be used to explore and analyse different global issues. (Read more here: globaldimension.org.uk/news/item/18690). Working in groups, students could choose one of the Global Goals to analyse using these questions, then discuss their findings together in a plenary session at the end of the lesson.

1. Where is this Global Goal an issue?2. What will be the effects of this Global Goal on

people/environment/jobs etc. (as appropriate)?3. What things can people do to support this Global Goal?4. Who has the power to make decisions about this Global Goal?5. Who does not have the power to make decisions about this

Global Goal?6. Which people will benefit from this Global Goal?7. Which people might lose out from this Global Goal?8. How does my life link to this Global Goal?9. How can we talk about this Global Goal in our community?10. How can the effects of this Global Goal be shared equally?

Another option for exploring and interrogating the Global Goals is to use the Development Compass Rose Framework, which was created and developed by Tide~ Global Learning: www.tidec.org.

Getting started: Exploring the Global GoalsShow students this short introductory video to the goals (6:20) https://vimeo.com/138852758

Then display or hand out the logos representing each of the 17 Global Goals (these can be downloaded from: www.wlltoolkit.org/brandassets.php - you will need to block out the wording).

Can students identify what the goals are from the logos? This will be quite tricky but should lead to some good discussions.

Reveal what each of the goals are and follow with a brief discussion about the goals were students surprised by any, do they think anything is missing?

Taking action: Tell everyone!

The main aim of The Worlds Largest Lesson (see Resources section) is that as many young people as possible know about the Global Goals. What can you and your students do to spread the word in your school and local community? The Global Goals website has ideas, some of which we have listed below (www.globalgoals.org/tell-everyone/).

Take a Global Goals selfie and tell everyone Record and star in a global video and tell everyone Choose a social share (see examples pictured here) and

tell everyone Be creative and share the goals in your own way, then

tell everyone.

In an art, music, drama or dance lesson can your students come up with a creative way to spread the message of the Global Goals? They could choose an arresting image, a song lyric or quote that they find inspiring, or create something from scratch.

You could watch short videos from togetherTV or the Guardian to exemplify some of the problems the Global Goals are trying to tackle, and inspire students: www.youtube.com/user/togethertvwww.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development+content/videoThis article on film-making and global learning could provide some useful tips and ideas:https://globaldimension.org.uk/news/item/17891

Choose one of the Global Goals to act on together as a class, perhaps voting on the one you feel most passionate about. Here are some ideas for actions you could take: Create a school foyer display to inform others about the

topic and what you are doing Do a research project to find out more about the topic Write to your local paper or MP to campaign for change Buy ethically think about fair trade, local produce and

low environmental impact Waste less water, food, electricity.

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ResourcesTeachers around the world are being encouraged to teach about the Global Goals during the week beginning27 September 2015, and get involved inThe World's Largest Lesson.

You can find all of the education materials connected to The Worlds Largest Lessonon these websites http://wlltoolkit.org/and www.tes.com/worldslargestlesson

There are 21 lesson plans for KS2 and KS3, assembly materials, posters, a comic and teacher guidance notes.

The Global Dimension website has a bank of over 100 resources that can be used to teach about the goals: globaldimension.org.uk/worldslargestlesson/