Sustainability Metrics

• This lesson explores multiple socioeconomic factors that can influence a country's sustainability, different ways to measure a nation's sustainability, and the level of sustainability in various countries around the world.
• Students will engage with an interactive tool, interpret and build graphs, and compare the sustainability metrics of various countries.

Positives

• This lesson motivates students to think critically about sustainability.
• There is an instructional video for using the interactive tool.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to have an intermediate level of understanding of the term sustainability, so defining the term and discussing interpretations prior to the lesson may be beneficial.
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• Students will need access to devices and the Internet to complete this lesson.
  

Differentiation

• This lesson could fit within a larger unit on how various societies and cultures interact with each other and with their environment.
• This lesson could accompany a brainstorming session where students consider different ways to promote sustainability in their own community.
• This lesson could support a classroom discussion on the cultural and political factors that can impact a country's sustainability.
• This lesson could enhance a classroom discussion on how the American government could improve sustainability within the country.