Sustainable Development Goals

is part of international network of anti-trafficking organizations devoted to protect children and end their commercial sexual exploitation. Among its many programs ECPAT-USA works with schools to train students to be advocates in their communities, educating them on the facts, misconceptions and risks of trafficking. https://www.ecpatusa.org

The Transformative Power of Children and Families. Edited by James F. Leckman, Catherine Panter-Brick, and Rima Salah

Part of the Let’s Read and Find Out Series, this will work for both primary and intermediate students. Step by step-Informative and well illustrated.

The story of what people did with waste before recycling.

Clickable SDG icons showing UNICEF's work for children related to each of the goals; Child-friendly, downloadable learning materials and a link to The World’s Largest Lesson, a partnership with UNICEF and Project Everyone. Also teacher-created lesson plans and materials addressing the Sustainable Development Goals pk-12, comics pages for each of the 17 goals (great for display) and an animated video of a teacher-student discussion of the SDGs set in a primary grade classroom

Downloadable materials on this website range from Early Childhood to adult; provide ways to learn about the SDGs, and actions people can take to make them a reality - for example "The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World." Includes parent tips for Early Childhood materials

This site featuring clickable icons of each goal provides comprehensive information about the SDGs, including background and additional links to student resources.

This is a wonderful memoir by the founder of the Acumen Fund, which works to make poor people in Africa and South Asia self-sufficient. Includes a video telling the incredible story that sparked her work of how a sweater she had worn for years was donated to Good Will and how 10 years later she found it on a young boy in Eritrea. There is also a downloadable Teachers Guide to the book on the website

A sister project of The World's Largest Lesson, Comics Uniting Nations works with world-renowned comic book artists and story-tellers to bring the SDGs to life through Comics

The Global Goals Teaching resources originating in the UK aiming to bring the SDGs to every classroom in the world. Includes lesson plans that can be customized, case studies and background information. Explains how the global dimension fits into the school curriculum and how it can be taught through every subject. http://www.globalgoals.org

A learning by doing workbook on water for children; colorful self-teaching tool that includes quizzes, puzzles, stories and activities. Students learn the word for water in many languages, calculate their own family’s daily use of water, and the amount of freshwater compared to salt on earth, how to measure rainfall, the army of water pollutants and where they come from and so much more. It comes with an interactive CD.

The Earth Institute at Columbia University Publishes a guide to educational programs on the environment and sustainable development, an annual report on the state of the planet, and The Economist Magazine