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Introduction to the module

An environmental challenge could become a great business opportunity but it is important to include the local community in every step of the process. The first step is mapping the environmental challenges. How to do it? What resources do we already have in the local community? How to support students to create an entrepreneurial mindset and to become sustainable entrepreneurs? 

Keywords

SDGs, mapping the local environmental challenges, business opportunities 

 

Learning objectives
  • To give a theoretical basis of environmental protection and sustainable development.
  • To explain what SDGs are.
  • To notice the possibility of sensitizing students to SDGs within the teaching process.
  • To identify environmental problems at the global level and their connections with local environmental challenges.
  • To explain how to mapping the environmental challenges in the local communities.
  • To analyze an environmental challenge to determine the possible business solution.

Learning outcomes

Teachers will be able to identify and implement elements of SDGs in the teaching process.

Teachers will be able to identify and critically analyze environmental challenges at the global and local levels and establish the connection between them. 

Teachers will be able to manage students through the process of mapping environmental challenges in the local community.

Teachers will be able to outline a green idea by using the Canva.

Teaching and learning activities

 

  • Workshops

  • Tests

  • Literature Review

  • Case study

  • Self-study

  • Brainstorming

Learning content
  • OUTSIDE resource center
  • Theoretical framework/learning scenarios
  • PPT
  • OERs

Assessment
  • Project-based activities
  • Quiz
  • Group work

To go further

Planetary Projects

Climate Change Basics

The Story of Plastic

The Story of Microfibers

The Greenhouse Effect

Climate Change Basics

 

Training module scenario

Number and title of the training sessions

This module consists of 3 mutually independent sessions:

 

  • Session 1: Environmental protection and SDGs  
  • Session 2: Global environmental challenges
  • Session 3: Mapping local environmental challenges

The users can choose only one, several or all of them according to their needs.

Preparation to the sessions

 The teacher will have prepared different slide presentations and training material and make them available to all trainees.

Material required

Laptop

Internet connection
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