Download this collection of THREE SDG LEARNING exercises, suitable to run as classroom exercises or to use in an online training format.
Your students will learn about the UN SDGs as a framework, they will delve into specifics and details, and they will start taking a systems perspective.
In the first exercise (about 1 hour), students will work in small groups where they will take turns discussing a selection of SDGs from various perspectives including (a) learning about them together, (b) discussing differing values and rationales behind the goals, and (c) how goals connect to the specific subject of learning and to students' future profession.
In the second exercise (about 1 hour), students will train systems thinking in relation to the goals, and experience how the different goals among the 17 SDGs both relate with synergies and trade-offs/goal conflicts. There is a discussion on what this means for practical implementation of the goals, and how professionals can draw on synergies and mitigate trade-offs.
In the third exercise (about 1 hour), students delve even deeper into how they may contribute to the goals in their future profession. They will create top-lists by ordering the 17 SDGs, and compare lists with each other to draw insights on how different goals may be obtained, which may be most attainable in different contexts, and how they relate to their own domain of studies - regardless of which domain this is.