Lesson 35 of 84 · Global Connections
⭐ 30 XP🌍 World StageGlobal Goals: Sustainable Development
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
🎯 Your mission
Think like a global citizen.
⚡ The twist
Big problems need both big solutions and small ones.
Mind = Blown
🤯 The internet was first turned on in 1969 with just 4 computers.
Then & Now
🌐 This is on the news right now somewhere on Earth.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
Key Facts
Over 100 million people are displaced worldwide.
About 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth.
The UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2What document outlines fundamental human rights for all people?
Why this still matters
Pick any product in your home. Trace where it came from. Be amazed.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Read one news headline and ask: who is helped, who is hurt?
For the dinner table
“What's one problem you wish the whole world would work together on?”
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