Grade 7 Sustainable Development Goals Unit

Provided by: Global Schools Program |Published on: August 7, 2025

Lesson Plans

Synopsis

In this unit from Global Schools Program, students will learn about what makes a changemaker and how they can become changemakers in their communities.
Students will interview their role models, analyze the characteristics of changemakers, and discuss how to solve local problems that connect to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Subjects: Civics, English Language Arts

Authors: Global Schools Program

Region: Global

Languages: English

Positives

This unit will encourage students to connect with community members and have important intergenerational conversations.
Having conversations about solving local problems will help students feel empowered to make changes in their communities.

Prerequisites

In Lesson 2, the link for Change Agents in Our Own Lives requires a free account. To make an account, teachers will have to give information about themselves and their school. Additionally, the links for Lesson 3 are all broken, aside from the one for the Sample Interview Protocol.
Students should already have an understanding of character traits.
Lesson 4 refers to a strategy called sketchnotes. The lesson includes a link to two resources explaining this strategy, but both of these links are broken. Teachers can research this strategy or use an established note-taking strategy.

Differentiation & Implementation

Teachers may want to have a list of trusted adults in the school that students can interview as a role model if they cannot think of anyone outside of school they would like to interview.
To make connections to creative writing, students can write a story about a changemaker, focusing on how to show that this character embodies the traits of a changemaker.
Teachers may want to make a list of questions to add to the list in Lesson 3 that will elicit conversations about social issues in the local community.

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