Resource Overview
Students develop an index of the ten factors they identify as most important to a sustainable community and develop models for measuring those factors.
Students will be able to:
- Define sustainable community.
- Name three different types of sustainability and categorize factors representing each.
- Assess and prioritize factors of sustainability to create a Sustainability Index.
- Apply the Sustainability Index to their own community, identifying where improvements could be made and potential challenges.
Features of This Resource
- Lesson has two versions – one appropriate for middle school and one for high school skill levels
- Students explore three types of sustainability – environmental, social, and economic
- Great lesson for teaching the SDGs
- Students pose questions to classmates to evaluate classmates’ methods and reasoning
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