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An excursion to the nearby beach or lake can give them some first-hand idea of the diversity of
nature and the food-chain in that particular ecosystem, thus emphasising Global goal 14 and 15.
By collaborating with the local Universities, schools can invite graduate students and lecturers for
seminars on local issues such as flood/ water logging, draught, forest resources, climate change, etc.
(Global Goal 13). Movies like Wall-E, 2008 can be used to emphasise Global Goal 12 that is,
responsible production and consumption. You tube‟s Lesson from the past28 on the Easter island
and Lessons from Easter island by Carl Lipo29 on TED talk are interesting and controversial. These
two videos can be useful in developing critical thinking as well as ESD in collaboration to ESL and
general science.
Geography: Topics like global warming, burgeoning populations, unplanned urbanisation, logging
of tropical forests, natural disasters, pollution, global carbon cycling, etc. can be easily integrated
into the mandate curriculum.
To integrate Global Goal 6 to geography, one can begin with topics
like global water cycle, global perspective of water sources on Earth,
countries that have access to fresh water, etc. On a local level, visits
to the local sewage plant can be useful to help pupils understand how
used water has to be treated before it can be released into the nature.
Global Goal 7, renewable energy, can be incorporated into the
mandate curriculum with topics such as Environmental consequences
of different sources of energy, Politics of push on wind-farms, Blot
on the landscape of wind plants, etc.
Global Goal 13 can easily be merged with mandate topics like physical relationships between
glacier size, climate and climate change; how and why we use climate models to inform our
understanding of the climate system, etc.
Global goal 12 can be discussed with topics like tensions and issues in food consumption, food as
ecological and social intervention, etc.
History: Topics like World War II, can be used to discuss the unsustainable society and how war
can prevent countries from making progress towards sustainability. (Sourcebook) Industrial
Revolution can be used to discuss Global Goal 12 and responsible production and consumption.
History of water sanitation both on a national or local perspective can be used to discuss Global
Goal 6. One can go even further and discuss topics like Indus Valley Civilization, from the 3000
BC and how the remains of the civilization show evidence of flush toilets and sewage systems.

28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYliCfzOkDE (viewed 21st June, 2016)
29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzV6_7PVMaI (viewed 21st June, 2016)

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