Lesson 3 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
Find the connection between here and somewhere far away.
⚡ The twist
The news only shows you one slice of the world at a time.
Mind = Blown
🤯 More people speak English in India than in the entire UK and US combined.
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
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted in 1948.
Over 100 million people are displaced worldwide.
About 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2What does fair trade help ensure?
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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