Lesson 67 of 84 · Global Connections
⭐ 30 XP🌍 World StageGlobal Goals: Sustainable Development
The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
🎯 Your mission
Think like a global citizen.
⚡ The twist
Big problems need both big solutions and small ones.
Mind = Blown
🤯 The internet was first turned on in 1969 with just 4 computers.
Then & Now
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals are 17 targets — including ending poverty, ensuring clean water, and fighting climate change — that countries work toward by 2030 to build a better world.
Key Facts
About 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth.
The UN has 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The United Nations has 193 member nations.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 2How many Sustainable Development Goals does the UN have?
Why this still matters
Pick any product in your home. Trace where it came from. Be amazed.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Pick a country in the news. Find out one good thing happening there too.
For the dinner table
“What's one problem you wish the whole world would work together on?”
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