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

Have learners collect and compare real numbers from the United Nations Statistics webpage to see how different countries and/or regions are progressing on Quality Education. Ask them to create simple graphs or charts with the data and discuss what the numbers reveal. Book a video conference to explore how global peers interpret the data and understand quality education in their own communities.

Sciences

How do environmental factors influence quality education? Have learners analyse case studies from different regions of the world to understand how factors such as climate, water, and terrain impact access to education. Ask them to share their own experiences and prepare questions about different environmental factors in various regions 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:

• UN SDG 4 - What Quality Education Means (3 Minutes)
• 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
• Quality education - United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division)
• Goal 4: Quality Education - United Nations Development Programme

Activities:

• Bringing SDG 4 into the Classroom: 8 Lesson Ideas for Quality Education - Bookwidgets
• 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?