Key Concepts and Themes: Sustainable Development Goals, Data, Community Action, Change Project
These resources have been developed by the World’s Largest Lesson in partnership with UNICEF and UNESCO. In the first part of this activity called Fact-ivism, students will create a data poster showing an SDG data fact that they care about. First, they will learn about data and pick a data point that inspires them to take action for the UN SDGs. Then they will visualise their piece of data and upload the data poster to a digital gallery for students all around the world to see.
The second resource called Making a Community Action Plan, builds on from the global/national data view of the chosen SDGs to develop a local perspective. The resource sets out to use the Global Goals as a catalyst for students in identifying a local community issue that they want to help solve and create an action plan to get started.
The resource contains links to additional teaching resources, videos, datasets and examples of student work. Links to additional resources can be found below:
This resource has been created by the World’s Largest Lesson and shared under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
Teacher Guides (PDFs):
How to use this Best Practice
The resources build from the global perspective of the SDG and data driven understanding of the goals to addressing challenges at a local level linked through the identified SDGs. This approach helps students and teachers to think globally and act locally.
Learning Outcomes
Teacher LO A: These resources starting with the Fact-ivism lesson plan help participants take a closer look at SDGs and the data behind each goal. This approach challenges what people think they know and understand about SDGs, resulting in a deeper understanding of the goals, their importance and local relevance.
Teacher LO B: The second resource, Starting a Community Action Plan, provides a placed-based approach to applying learning about SDGs to addressing a local challenge. This engagement with the local community and environment reinforces learning and promotes active SC.
Teacher LO D: This resource could be adapted to a workshop activity for teachers to explore themselves as participants. This would allow the collaborative synthesis of new knowledge and sharing of innovative approaches adapted to their own local context.