Promote Sustainability

WatSEE-aligned Actions

  • Include a learning activity that builds awareness of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals,  SDGs (e.g., students review the SDGs and then reflect on the ones that are most important to them)
  • Incorporate a learning activity that increases literacy of the UN SDGs (e.g., students take and discuss the Sulitest Awareness Test)
  • Include a learning activity that supports engagement with at least one of the UN SDGs (e.g., students evaluate an organization’s business model, culture, goals, and/or governance using at least one of the UN SDGs)
  • Integrate a learning activity that demonstrates the impact of at least one of the UN SDGs (e.g., students propose a group plan for improving at least one of the UN SDGs)
  • Consult the Framework & Toolbox of Sustainability in Curriculum to help:
    • Understand what sustainability means
    • Connect sustainability to your discipline
    • Integrate sustainability into your course (and programs)

Resources

Associate Provost, Co-operative and Experiential Education
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
SDGs at Work Activity Book

Sustainability in Classroom
Sustainability in Curriculum - Framework & Toolbox
Connect sustainability to my discipline

World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Good Life Goals (e.g., Flash Cards)