Connecting the UDHR to the Sustainable Development Goals
Time: 45 Minutes
Standards: Common Core ELA and CASEL
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as foundations for students’ awareness of human rights. These documents will provide the lens through which students will peer as they begin to think about the challenges facing their communities (or the world at large) while exploring possible methods to shine their own creative lights on these challenges.
After this lesson, students will be able to...
- identify the Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- identify the Sustainable Development Goals
- make connections between the UDHR/SDGs and themselves
- make connections between the UDHR/SDGs and the world
Guiding Questions
- What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
- What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
- What rights are we granted under the UDHR?
- How do these rights apply to me and/or the world?
- What is the overall purpose of the Sustainable Development Goals?
- How does the purpose of SDGs apply to me and/or the world?