Teaching with the Sustainable Development Goals

Overview

Many classes about global issues use the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an organizing principle. This resource outlines the World101 lessons that align with the SDGs.

World101 has a lesson on the SDGs that can serve as a starting point. With their global focus a central feature of the SDGs, World101’s Regions of the World Unit is an outstanding resource for helping students to discover how the SDGs affect communities around the world. Most content relating to the SDGs can be found in the People and Society lens or the Economics lens. World101 also has a number of lessons and modules that address one or more of the SDGs specifically:

3. Good Health and Well-Being

• Global Health Module: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/global-health 
• What Is the World Health Organization: https://world101.cfr.org/how-world-works-and-sometimes-doesnt/global-go… 

7. Affordable and Clean Energy

• Sources of Energy: A Comparison: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/climate-change/sources-energ…

8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

• Development Module: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/development 

9. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

• Technology and Development: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/development/technology-and-d…
• Trains, Planes, and Shipping Containers: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/globalization/trains-planes-… 

10. Reduced Inequalities

• Development Module: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/development

13. Climate Action

• Climate Change Module: https://world101.cfr.org/global-era-issues/climate-change 

16. Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions

• Laws, Norms, and Democratic Backsliding: https://world101.cfr.org/how-world-works-and-sometimes-doesnt/forms-gov…
• Global Governance Module: https://world101.cfr.org/how-world-works-and-sometimes-doesnt/global-go…

17. Partnerships for the Goals

• Global Governance Module: https://world101.cfr.org/how-world-works-and-sometimes-doesnt/global-go…