SDGs Teaching Resources

SDG 15: Life on Land

Use one or more of the Generation Global resources to teach about this SDG in your learning community. Select the resource you would like to use to learn more:

Tips and examples for aligning this SDG with your class

• Use dialogue to make real life connections between the content and subject you teach and what young people are experiencing regarding the issue.
• Use Dialogue as an activity that you come back to at key moments of a project to revisit the topic from various points of view and to reflect. For example, you might want to enter a dialogue on the subject before you teach a project, to help learners get personally connected, then host another dialogue at the end to help them explore what was learned and any new ideas that have come from the experience.
• Use data and facts about a topic only as a catalyst for the dialogue, not in the dialogue itself. Be sure to allow learners the space to bring their own personal experiences into the conversation and to explore instead of debating an issue.

Subject Activity ideas

Math

Analyse and interpret population trends to predict extinction probability. Use the activity 'The Future of Species' from the World Wildlife Fund Educator's Resource Guide, to create a graph and make inferences about the probability of these species' survival on our planet if serious changes are not made. Based on these findings, use the Asking Response Questions activity from the Essentials of Dialogue to create follow up inquiries about how this data relates to their own community and region.

Sciences

Participate in an Eco-footprint project, then join a Video Conference to have student share about their footprint and own experiences with preserving biodiversity in their own area with peers from other regions.

Social Science

Have learners complete the Biodiversity topic on the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure to explore the subject and prepare them to engage in the dialogue spaces about how they observe its impact on their own communities and others.

Language Arts

Use the Generation Global Biodiversity Nature Hunt activity to have students conduct an audit of the different species of flora and fauna in their area and create a vocabulary list of new words. Practice using the new terms in an in-class dialogue about what they have discovered in their area.

Additional activities and resources

Videos:

• Participate - Understand Goal 15: Life on Land (Secondary)
• Oxford Global - SDG 15: Life on Land
• SDG Academy - What is Biodiversity?
• TEDEd - Why is biodiversity so important? - Kim Preshoff

Readings and data:

• The Global Goals - Things to do for Life on Land
• Voices of Youth - Tools for young climate activists
• Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 - The World Bank - SDG15
• SDG Tracker - “Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss”
• FAO - The Youth Guide to Biodiversity

Activities:

• Stairway to SDGs - SDG 15: Control your wastes!
• World's Largest Lesson - Artivism for nature
• World Association of Girl Guides & Girl Scouts; The Green Wave; CBD; FAO - Biodiversity Challenge Badge