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What Are the Sustainable Development Goals?
What Are the Sustainable Development Goals?
What is Design Thinking?
What is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is a powerful way to solve real life problems. Using a Design Thinking Cycle to solve problems is an effective method to find innovative solutions to any real world problems.
Poverty sadly affects millions of people around the world. This might be a difficult SDG to talk about for some of us, but it can also be a big motivating factor when looking to address it. What some may not realise is that versions of poverty can also be very close to home; you just have to look at the socio-economic situations that exist in our own town, province and country to see this. Please be mindful that each of us have different backgrounds and please be empathetic as we discuss this SDG - it might be hard to talk about for some students and adults.
Research & Emphatize:
Situations where projects, such as STEAM Projects, have helped to alleviate poverty
Development of a Vaccine
Improvement to a Drought-Tolerant Crop
The Design of Water Storage Solutions
Other Ideas You Would Like to Investigate
Be An Upstander & Take Action:
Create a Zero Waste Challenge, whereby part of this involves collecting excess materials to be donated to charity.
Think About & Plan a Social Enterprise Around SDG 1: Reducing Poverty:
Students can create a solution to a problem, build that solution and then sell that solution to raise money for charity. This has the additional benefit of students learning entrepreneurial skills that can be used later in life to benefit themselves and their communities.
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Zero Hunger goal can also seem overwhelming to students and staff and it's important to understand that this might be a touchy subject for some students and staff. There are people who are hungry in our own schools and communities. Whilst the challenge is huge, it's important for you all to know that you can can still contribute in your own way to make a difference.
Research & Emphatize:
Take your students fruit-picking at a local orchard. Here they can learn about food waste, biosecurity and farming techniques used in your area.
Be An Upstander & Take Action:
Connect your school/community with a food charity such as Food First, NL and 211 NL to help get food to people in need
Work with your town council to start a community garden or link your school with a community garden that already exists in your area. Students could then contribute their work to helping maintain and grow the fruit & vegetables for people in your area.
Think About & Plan a Social Enterprise Around SDG 2: Reducing Hunger:
Organize a school event (school concert, arts festival, sports event, video game marathon) and have a percentage of the proceeds from your events go directly to food charity.
Create a "product" and design a business plan where proceeds go to helping to solve a food sustainaiblity problem in your school/community or to fund a charity such as Food First NL.
Start a 'seed library’, or grow seedlings to sell and use proceeds to help fund creation of a community garden. Students grow their own plants at school and then harvest the seeds for use by others. Students could write articles and record videos about how to care for the plants as a guide.
With some research about the import permits for seeds in a given region, your school could link with another school in drought-stricken areas to send seeds and agricultural equipment to them.
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