Everybody can help to save the world UN event on sustainability: „Biggest school lesson ever“
ÜCKESDORF · „Peacemaker“ is one of these super hero figures who show by their router appearance which of the 17 sustainability goals are most important: Half woman, half man, fighting for equality and against war. This figure does not exist, but the idea the 8th year students of the Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasiums (CvO) had during the „biggest school lesson ever“ sounds pretty cool.
The CvO school was one of seven to take part in this special lesson. Organised by international participants of the UN Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development, which is currently taking place in the WCCB, this lesson meant that three 8th year classes were freed from their regular lessons to learn about sustainable development.
This concept has not been incorporated into the normal curriculum yet. The idea behind the event: To teach the same knowledge in as many classes as possible worldwide, says Silke Bölts, who is organising the event as a volunteer. The students are supposed to work as multipliers.
British native Stephen Skyes, as well as Srinivasa Vangala and Shanthala Kasarkod from India, are three of the supervisors. They are teaching in a playful way that there always has to be somebody to be a good example for others to follow when it comes to matters like water usage and CO2 emissions, sharing food better, and the like.
They also challenged the kids’ imagination: They were asked to create superheroes who can solve the world’s problems without violence. Genius inventors were conceived, mind readers, heroes who can teleport themselves, and one whose superpower was that he is constantly convincing.
At the end they had to fill in a questionnaire, which taught the organisers a lesson too - one student remarked that it would be more sustainable to print those on recycled paper next time.
Original Text: kpo
Translation: Mareike Graepel
