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Global PBL Idea: Teach the SDGs with PenPal Schools

11/2/2018

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The UN Sustainable Development Goals create an agenda to transform our world by 2030. Teachers around the world are supported to bring the Sustainable Development Goals into their classrooms through TeachSDGs. PenPal Schools can also help you connect your students with PenPals around the world to learn more about the SDGs and take action in your local community.

Global project-based learning through PenPal Schools helps students make changes locally that have a global impact. Through action-oriented projects, students engage with their peers around the world to gain global perspectives about a topic that affects people around the world. Whether discussion immigration or the environment, PenPals are exchanging ideas, solving problems in their communities, and sharing solutions with their peers around the world. ​
The World Through My Eyes is a great introductory project to the SDGs. This project features documentary films created by young people around the world through the support of ByKids. Each video in the project touches on a specific Sustainable Development Goal, from gender equality and education to poverty and peace.
students makes a documentary film. banner image for The World Through My Eyes
View The World Through My Eyes Syllabus
As students learn with global PenPals, they create a project to impact their local community. From hosting a film screening to creating a film that highlights inequality in their community, students are able to share their local impact with their PenPals.

To target SDGs that address environmental issues, check out Protecting the Planet. In this project, created in partnership with Time for Kids, students explore environmental issues around the world. Students can discuss threats to the Great Barrier Reef with PenPals in Australia or the impact of poaching with PenPals in South Africa.
Protecting the Planet project banner image
View Protecting the Planet Syllabus
Students bring this conversation back to their local communities by designing a service project, interviewing a local environmentalist, or creating a PSA about the environmental issues they discussed with PenPals. Students publish their projects in the PenPal Schools Showcase to share their local impact with a global community.

PenPal Schools can help your students learn globally and act locally towards the SDGs. While all PenPal Schools projects can be connected to a Sustainable Development Goal, we’ve created this simple guide to help you find the best projects to support each goal.
Sustainable Development Goal
PenPal Schools Project
No Poverty
Financial Literacy & Money Management
The World Through My Eyes
Zero Hunger
A World of Food
Good Health & Well-Being
A World of Food
Holidays & Festivals of the World
The World Through My Eyes
World Religions
Quality Education
Schools Around the World
The World Through My Eyes
Gender Equality
The World Through My Eyes
Clean Water & Sanitation
Protecting the Planet
Joining Forces for the Environment
Affordable & Clean Energy
Protecting the Planet
Meteorology & Weather
Joining Forces for the Environment
Decent Work & Economic Growth
World Explorer
Financial Literacy & Money Management
Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure
Clothing & Culture of the World
Robotics
A World of Geometry
Navigation & Cartography
Reduced Inequalities
World Explorer
Financial Literacy & Money Management
The World Through My Eyes
Walking to Freedom
Immigration in the 21st Century
Sustainable Cities & Communities
World Explorer
Robotics
Responsible Consumption & Production
A World of Food
Protecting the Planet
Facts, Opinions, and Fake News
Robotics
Climate Action
Protecting the Planet
Meteorology & Weather
Joining Forces for the Environment
Life Below Water
Protecting the Planet
Plants & Animals
Joining Forces for the Environment
Life on Land
World Explorer
Protecting the Planet
Meteorology & Weather
The Power of Art
Explorers & Adventurers
Plants & Animals
World Religions
Joining Forces for the Environment
Peace & Justice Strong Institutions
Walking to Freedom
Immigration in the 21st Century
The Power of Art
Race in America
A World of Poetry
World Religions
Don’t just learn about problems facing the world; connect your students globally to gain perspectives and influence the impact your students can make locally. Then, inspire change around the world by sharing your local impact with PenPals around the world. Join PenPal Schools to turn your global learning into local action.
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