Road to Sustainable Future: UN and Cultural Emphasis Culminating Activity
The Primary Years Programme (PYP) Department concluded the United Nations (UN) and Cultural Emphasis celebration with a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) fair held at the Preschool Gym on October 28.
Grades 1 to 5 pupils explored five booths that highlighted specific SDGs. These booths were filled with activities and challenges, which showed how students, communities, and UN countries can secure the future together by achieving the SDGs.
Ring Toss: Helpful or Harmful
Identifying helpful and harmful environmental decisions became the highlight of this booth. The students were given the chance to aim at either what helps or harms the environment by tossing the rings on the cones. Successfully landing the rings onto the cones earned them prizes, but beyond these tokens, reflecting on their environmental habits was the greatest reward.
One Note, One Promise
Some people say that the first step to getting a task done is to write it down. With its long tables, this booth provided a space for students to accomplish this first step. As they wrote their promise on colorful sticky notes, they officially pledged their commitment to the environment. Taking these promises a step further, the students outlined the actions they would take to make those promises come true.
Spin a Kindness Challenge
More often than not, actions are fueled by the courage to dare. In this booth, the students dared to “just do it”. Giving the students a push, a wheel of kind actions taught them ways to show kindness. Wherever the wheel landed was the kindness challenge the students needed to take on. For each spin, the students could get any of the following: give someone a compliment, invite someone to join a game, help a classmate without being asked, say thank you to someone today, share supplies with a friend, say something kind to make someone smile, include someone who feels left out, pick up a piece of litter, hold the door for someone, give a kind note to a friend, encourage someone who is having a hard time, or be a good listener.
A Fair Chance for Everyone
Featuring SDG 5 (Gender Equality), this booth offered thought-provoking questions about inclusion, equality, and fairness. Here, the students spun a digital wheel of numbers, and each number corresponded to a situational question related to the application of SDG 5. The students then affixed their thumbprints as the leaves of the illustrated tree, the symbol of their promise for equality.
Community Puzzle
Putting the Partnership for the Goals (SDG 17) into practice, the students worked together to assemble a puzzle. The puzzle formed a poster on the importance of cooperation and action, displaying the message “Stronger Together for a Better Tomorrow”. This puzzle challenge proved that when communities and countries collaborate, they can solve problems effectively and reach their goals successfully.
SDG Booths