SDGs Teaching Resources

SDG 4: Quality Education

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.
• 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

Work with learners to review and tabulate the most recent data on the SDG Tracker to see how the world measures up to the goal indicators for Quality Education. Book a video conference to explore how global peers define and promote quality education.

Sciences

How do environmental factors influence quality education? Have learners anaylse case studies from different regions of the world to examine how environmental factors like climate, water, and terrain impact access to education. Ask them to share their own experience and prepare questions about different environmental factors in various regions of the world in the Education Dialogue Space on the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure.

Social Science

Ask learners to complete the Education topic on the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure to prompt a dialogue. Explore the role and purpose of Education in different societies, then use the Generation Global activities Sharing our Ideas and Asking Response Questions to prepare for a dialogue about their own ideas for the future of education.

Language Arts

Practice vocabulary regarding Quality Education by listing key words on the topic. Using words from the list, ask learners to write about their own experience of what schooling is like for them and share it in the Education Dialogue Space of the Ultimate Dialogue Adventure.

Additional activities and resources

Videos:

• Sustainable Development Together on Quality Education and the Future of Sustainable Development!
• Children can transform the world - but first they need an education
• Quality Education SDG 4 Sustainable Development Goals for Kids - Smile and Learn English

Readings and Data:

• The Global Goals: Things to do for Quality Education
• Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023 - The World Bank - SDG4
• SDG Tracker - “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning”

Activities:

• Global Schools Program: Lesson Plans for Educators
• OXFAM: Learn about the Right to Education Teaching Pack
• The World's Largest Lesson: Why Are So Many Children Still Not In School?