• This lesson about supply chains, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the environmental impacts of making goods includes student pages, a mind-mapping activity, a podcast, and a map reading exercise.
  
• The podcast talks about the problem of scaling up clean energy technologies while also ensuring people's rights and protecting the environment. 

Positives

• Students may be surprised to learn how many locations raw materials come from to make just one tech device.
• The UN Sustainable Development Goals can be printed for display in the classroom.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should already be familiar with the concept that every product we use is created from raw materials that are sourced, processed, manufactured, and transported. 

Differentiation

• Social studies or economics classes could use this resource to support their discussion on understanding supply chains and the importance of certification labels to distinguish responsibly produced goods.
  
• Science and social studies classes could use this resource to examine how the mining industry negatively affects the environment and the injustices associated with the storage sites for spent radioactive fuels or other hazardous wastes.

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