Student Resources Archives - United Nations Sustainable Development /sustainabledevelopment/blog/category/student-resources/ 17 Goals to Transform Our World Fri, 30 May 2025 18:27:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 Celebrate World Bee Day with Us /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2025/05/celebrate-world-bee-day-with-us/ Fri, 30 May 2025 13:56:21 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=115665 Every year on 20 May, we celebrate World Bee Day to remind everyone how important bees are. Bees help plants grow by moving pollen between flowers. This is called pollination, and it helps almost 90% of flowering plants and more than 75% of the food we eat grow strong and healthy. But bees are in [...]

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]]> Sustainable Sundays with AL Ain British Academy: Inspiring Sustainability through Storytelling and Partnership /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2025/04/sustainable-sundays-with-al-ain-british-academy-inspiring-sustainability-through-storytelling-and-partnership/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 19:29:16 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=115359 In October 2023, we launched Sustainable Sundays, an initiative by AL Ain British Academy (AABA) designed to raise sustainability awareness among children aged 5–10, along with their parents. Hosted at the Zayed Central Library (ZCL), our public library in AL Ain (part of the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi), this monthly event began [...]

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]]> Storytime with the UN Depuy-Secretary-General /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2025/04/storytime-with-the-un-depuy-secretary-general/ Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:08:15 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=115319 We are excited to share with you a very special storytime with Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed as she reads "Thank You, Omu" by Oge Mora from the English reading list SDG2: Zero Hunger. Did you know that 1 in 9 people in this world don’t have enough to eat? This also affects many children, especially [...]

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]]> Frieda – The Universal Message of the Sustainable Development Goals /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2018/12/frieda-the-universal-message-of-the-sustainable-development-goals/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 17:00:07 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=56051 Storytelling is a powerful communications tool that helps children remember lessons and virtues that they will use in everyday life. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be complex and diverse topics to teach children – an audience that are our greatest hope in achieving them.

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]]> SDG Book Club Serbia at Pozega /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/12/sdg-book-club-serbia-at-pozega/ Sat, 14 Dec 2019 15:47:29 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=78252 As an initiative of Pozega Public Library, librarian Daniela Skokovic and Marija Jevericic, professor of Serbian language at Gymnasium "Sveti Sava", started activities dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their newly established “SDG Book Club Serbia“ for first year high school students. The goals of the Book Club are to promote the SDGs [...]

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]]> The SDG Book Club at Merchiston Castle School /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/08/the-sdg-book-club-at-merchiston-castle-school/ Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:20:21 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=70986 As the librarian at the Spawforth Library at Merchiston Castle School, United Kingdom, I am delighted to be taking part in the Sustainable Development Goals Book Club. This initiative was suggested to me by Dr. Richard Lilley, one of our teachers of biology, and was something I was more than happy to support and promote. [...]

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]]> The BrainGyan Foundation /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/the-braingyan-foundation/ Wed, 29 May 2019 20:55:09 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=65931 At the BrainGyan book club, we aim to foster a lifelong love for reading. We believe that stories are magical, expand a child’s imagination, create natural curiosity, and accelerate their emotional development. We want to make them understand their role in the future of the planet as an individual, a team player, and a [...]

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]]> The Fathi Initiative /sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/the-fathi-initiative/ Wed, 29 May 2019 20:11:07 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=65895 The Fathi Initiative is an independent, non-profit organization, based in the Horn of Africa, that aims to bring solutions and raise awareness to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our goal is for every young Somali boy and girl to not only understand what the SDGs are about, but to be able to digest, personalize and [...]

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]]> SDG Book Club – Teaching Children about Sustainable Development /sustainabledevelopment/sdgbookclub/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 21:54:25 +0000 /sustainabledevelopment/?p=60148 The SDG Book Club, launching in April 2019, will be based on a reading list of titles aimed at children age 6-12, to teach them about the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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