Chapter 8Teaching materials about the Sustainable Development Goals

With the help of these materials, teachers can design motivating GFL-MINT lessons on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Today's children and young people will be adults in 2030. They are directly affected by the achievement of the goals. Thus, it is concretely about their personal reality of life and future. Some of the fields of action are suitable for GFL- lessons with a focus on STEM because of their relevance to everyday life. This is also supported by the fact that there is a very good range of material on the 17 objectives for students in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, which is accessible to everyone.

Particularly suitable topics with relevance to everyday life include nutrition, water and energy consumption, and the consumption behavior of individuals. The effects of behavior on the global community can be illustrated and compared using the so-called ecological footprint. 

With the help of these materials, you can design motivating GFL-MINT lessons on the goals of sustainable development. The topics offer various possibilities to recall everyday experiences, to activate existing vocabulary, to deepen known sentence structures and to acquire new ones. Embedded in the global framework theme of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the aim is to encourage students to engage with the topic in a particularly productive way.

There is a useful video on the topic.