The power of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to ensure inquiry and problem based learning truly foster global-mindedness in learners
Schools world-wide are utilising inquiry, problem-based, design thinking approaches to learning in order to grow empathetic understanding and international mindedness. Students are taking action through collaborative initiatives locally or globally focused...
Teaching using the Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, sometimes referred to as the Global Goals, or the SDGs for short, provide many wonderful teaching opportunities. This post is in response to a colleague on the NZ Primary Teachers' Facebook group who asked:...
Comic – The Planet and the 17 Goals
The Planet and the 17 Goals is an amazing comic book for students to use about the 17 goals created by Margreet de Heer. It includes an online interactive website, a downloadable PDF and this slideshow below.Background to this resource:In September 2015,...
Schools Strike 4 Climate Action NZ
Last year, a 15-year-old Swedish girl called Greta Thunberg did a small thing that inspired a big movement. She made the choice to strike from school and spend her days instead protesting climate change outside the Swedish Parliament. Her reasons for doing...
A girl’s view of the 17 sustainable development goals – in pictures
A girl standing where her house used to be, which was washed away due to heavy floods in Chawhara, Bangladesh, illustrating goal 13 - climate action. Photograph: Josh Estey/Care International. If you don’t know where to start with the SDGs, start with...
How NZ decking timber choices compound a human rights crisis in West Papua
A New Zealand ban on kwila would send a signal that we’re serious about protecting our planet, its ancient forests and the people whose lives depend on them, writes Maire Leadbeater of West Papua Action AucklandThis article is cross-posted from The Spinoff......
Take Your Seat on Climate Change
As part of the build up for the United Nation’s critical COP24 Climate Change Conference in Poland on December 3rd, Sir David Attenborough is the voice of a new “People’s Seat”.
Pacific Re-set – West Papua’s Self Determination
This page is dedicated to supporting the people of West Papua in achieving self-determination. Self-determination is the right to govern your own land and is a fundamental human right.
About the UN Education Portal
This is a slideshow overview of the UN Education Portal for UNA NZ Canterbury branch by Rob Clarke, Special Officer for Education for UNA NZ. In it we cover these aspects:the goals of the United Nations Association of NZreasons why we need a UN Education...