SDG ideabox
In this SDG ideabox you will find a list full of inspiring ideas to get started with the SDGs at your school. You can narrow down the list by using the filters below. Use the Control key to select multiple options and than click on "apply" to start. the filter.
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| SDG | Level | Description | Target audience |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Provide a budget for more green at school, look into possible subsidy channels for this. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Provide a budget for more green at school, look into possible subsidy channels for this. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Give students, teachers, parent and maybe even the neighborhood a say in the realization of more green at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Give students, teachers, parent and maybe even the neighborhood a say in the realization of more green at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Give students, teachers, parent and maybe even the neighborhood a say in the realization of more green at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Have attention for indigenous species in the design and the lay-out of a green playground. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Have attention for indigenous species in the design and the lay-out of a green playground. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Create a green and adventurous playground with attention for learning nature, biodiversity and well-being. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Create a green and adventurous playground with attention for learning nature, biodiversity and well-being. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Look at learning in, from and with nature from a curriculum point of view. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Look at learning in, from and with nature from a curriculum point of view. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Don’t use pesticides or herbicides to combat weeds. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Don’t use pesticides or herbicides to combat weeds. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Provide sufficient trashcans and make sorting trash inviting. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Provide sufficient trashcans and make sorting trash inviting. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Get involved in a network for children and nature. You will get tips for more nature at school this way. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Get involved in a network for children and nature. You will get tips for more nature at school this way. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Make time for experiencing nature during learning activities. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Make time for experiencing nature during learning activities. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Have the students gain green expertise through different channels e.g. Ecopedia. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Have the students gain green expertise through different channels e.g. Ecopedia. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Get some inspiration on teaching outside, see www.buitenlesdag.be. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Get some inspiration on teaching outside, see www.buitenlesdag.be. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Lay out a vegetable garden and manage it together with the neighborhood. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Lay out a vegetable garden and manage it together with the neighborhood. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Participate in citizen science projects that focus on biodiversity. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Policy | Participate in citizen science projects that focus on biodiversity. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Visit an organization/company that partakes in permaculture or an organic farmer. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Visit an organization/company that partakes in permaculture or an organic farmer. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Work with an expert or master: beekeeper, compost master ... | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Work with an expert or master: beekeeper, compost master ... | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Include the students in maintenance and management work. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Include the students in maintenance and management work. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Stimulate students’ research projects in which they question the neighborhood on biodiversity. Have the students calculate the share of green in the neighborhood. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Stimulate students’ research projects in which they question the neighborhood on biodiversity. Have the students calculate the share of green in the neighborhood. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Let students discover the different biotopes in the neighborhood of the school and study them (park, pond, woods, in the neighborhood). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Let students discover the different biotopes in the neighborhood of the school and study them (park, pond, woods, in the neighborhood). | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Make a bioblitz for your school with the students and map out the biodiversity. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Make a bioblitz for your school with the students and map out the biodiversity. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students research the effects of using palm oil, paper use ... on biodiversity. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Map out the shredding places in the city with the students. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Take an inventory with the students of animals dying because of traffic. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Take an inventory with the students of animals dying because of traffic. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Look at the defragmentation spots on the school property with the students. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Look at the defragmentation spots on the school property with the students. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Look at and take an inventory with the students of which animals come onto the school property. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Look at and take an inventory with the students of which animals come onto the school property. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Develop a project based on research: “Why is biodiversity important?” | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Develop a project based on research: “Why is biodiversity important?” | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | With the students, look at what actions are being taken in the city to connect small green areas so animals can move around. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | With the students, look at what actions are being taken in the city to connect small green areas so animals can move around. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students research the threats to biodiversity: loss of habitat, deforestation, fragmentation, invasive species and overexploitation (caused by unsustainable production and consumption practices, unsustainable technologies, etc.). | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students study the dangers of extinction: individually endangered species, extinction forever, the long amount of time it takes for species to form, and the six mass extinctions. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students research the influence of climate change on biodiversity. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students research the influence of climate change on biodiversity. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Klas | Have the students research the influence of climate change on pedogenesis and soil structure and have them look for possible actions to combat desertification. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Place a beehive, insect hotel and/or bird boxes, worm bin at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Place a beehive, insect hotel and/or bird boxes, worm bin at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Provide hiding/hibernating places e.g. wood piles, dung piles, messy corners ... | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Provide hiding/hibernating places e.g. wood piles, dung piles, messy corners ... | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Invest money from school activities in green at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Invest money from school activities in green at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in the toads’ migration action. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in the toads’ migration action. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in the tree planting action. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in the tree planting action. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Lay out a school vegetable garden. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Lay out a school vegetable garden. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Organize (multiple day) sustainable school excursions. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Organize (multiple day) sustainable school excursions. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Organize an outdoor class day (www.buitenlesdag.be) | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Organize an outdoor class day (www.buitenlesdag.be) | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Sensibilize the students around sorting (waste). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Sensibilize the students around sorting (waste). | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Pimp the trashcans at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Pimp the trashcans at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Sensibilize the students around paper use. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Sensibilize the students around paper use. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Organize a mud day at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in awareness actions e.g. ‘De Week van het Bos’ (the week of the woods), bird counting week, ‘bodemhelden’ (soil heroes) ... | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Participate in awareness actions e.g. ‘De Week van het Bos’ (the week of the woods), bird counting week, ‘bodemhelden’ (soil heroes) ... | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Spend time on Earth Day (April 22) and/or World Environment Day (June 5). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Spend time on Earth Day (April 22) and/or World Environment Day (June 5). | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Provide an overview of the environment, marking areas of various wildlife and barriers, dispersal barriers, roads and populations of invasive species. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Provide an overview of the environment, marking areas of various wildlife and barriers, dispersal barriers, roads and populations of invasive species. | Secondary education |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Plant a wildlife garden, e.g. bee-friendly flowers, insect hotels, ponds, etc. in urban areas. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 15: Life on land | Action | Plant a wildlife garden, e.g. bee-friendly flowers, insect hotels, ponds, etc. in urban areas. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Develop a transparent policy for the parent and student council. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Develop a transparent policy for the parent and student council. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Develop an anti-bullying policy and make an action plan. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Develop an anti-bullying policy and make an action plan. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Open your green playground outside of school hours. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Policy | Open your green playground outside of school hours. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Teach students to debate/hold a dialogue/express their opinion with respect for the other person. Regularly have class debates. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Teach students to debate/hold a dialogue/express their opinion with respect for the other person. Regularly have class debates. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Pay attention to the causes and effects of violence and conflicts worldwide. Go into current affairs and make the connection to remembrance education. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Pay attention to the causes and effects of violence and conflicts worldwide. Go into current affairs and make the connection to remembrance education. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Teach students to stand up for what they believe in, in a peaceful way. Teach them to use nonviolent communication/conflict management. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Teach students to stand up for what they believe in, in a peaceful way. Teach them to use nonviolent communication/conflict management. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Have a debate on crime and punishment and compare laws and punishments around the world. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss climate justice. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss trade justice. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss child labor and child exploitation. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss child labor and child exploitation. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss that peace often precedes global treaties and agreements regarding war, peace and refugees. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss corruption and how to measure it. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss illegal arms trade. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss drug abuse and the trade around it. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Visit a place related to the world wars, the Holocaust and human rights. Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen, the fortress of Breendonk, military cemeteries, the Menin Gate and the Flanders Field Museum ... Make the connection to present forms of antisemitism, racism, discrimination, polarization and radicalization. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Visit a place related to the world wars, the Holocaust and human rights. Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen, the fortress of Breendonk, military cemeteries, the Menin Gate and the Flanders Field Museum ... Make the connection to present forms of antisemitism, racism, discrimination, polarization and radicalization. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Introduce your students to the legal system in Belgium. Do the same with international legal systems and alternative ways of justice, such as reconciliation commissions in South Africa or Rwanda. You can go to https://www.dekrachtvanjestem.be/ for inspiration. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Acknowledge the value of student participation. In your daily class practice, make sure there is enough space for ventilating feelings and opinions. And work on democratic attitudes. Organize class and school debates and break through the us/them way of thinking. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Acknowledge the value of student participation. In your daily class practice, make sure there is enough space for ventilating feelings and opinions. And work on democratic attitudes. Organize class and school debates and break through the us/them way of thinking. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss cyberbullying. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss fake news. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Discuss fake news. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Make the arms race a topic of discussion. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Make a conflict elsewhere in the world less of a topic of disinterest and try to contact impacted peers with your students. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Play a roleplaying game about different people all around the world who are victims of injustice. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Have interreligious dialogues in schools and on university campuses about justice and equality. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Organize an excursion to a local court house or police station. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Organize an excursion to a local court house or police station. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Design a poster “What is fair/just” at school. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Design a poster “What is fair/just” at school. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Hold debates on issues of justice of historical and cultural context, the disappearances in Argentina, Apartheid in South Africa, etc. and how these justice issues have evolved. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Develop a project based on research: “What would a peaceful world look like?” | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Klas | Introduce your students to the international criminal court and it’s role. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Organize school debates. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Participate in the week against bullying and the anti-bullying day. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Participate in the week against bullying and the anti-bullying day. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Stand up for human rights and justice, for example by participating in ‘Schrijf-ze-VRIJdag’ or other initiatives. | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Spend time on the International Day of Peace (September 21). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Spend time on the International Day of Peace (September 21). | Secondary education |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Spend time on the International Day of Peace (September 21). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions | Action | Spend time on the International Day of Peace (September 21). | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Focus on dual learning (internships in partner companies). | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Participate in group purchasing (of e.g. solar panels, reusable cups, water bottles ...). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Participate in group purchasing (of e.g. solar panels, reusable cups, water bottles ...). | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Increase neighborhood participation. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Increase neighborhood participation. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Share the school’s infrastructure outside of school hours (e.g. playground, gym, dining hall ...). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Share the school’s infrastructure outside of school hours (e.g. playground, gym, dining hall ...). | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Work together with the city council. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Work together with local businesses. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Work together with the city council. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Work together with the city council. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Focus on international collaboration. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Focus on international collaboration. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Start a partnership with another school somewhere else in Flanders, across the language boundary or in another country. You can use existing initiatives or digital platforms that make exchanges between schools possible for this. E.g. ‘Scholenbanden’ (school connections), My Equator, eTwinning ... | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Start a partnership with another school somewhere else in Flanders, across the language boundary or in another country. You can use existing initiatives or digital platforms that make exchanges between schools possible for this. E.g. ‘Scholenbanden’ (school connections), My Equator, eTwinning ... | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Stimulate a sustainable fundamental attitude and strive for a sustainable vision on a school group level. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Stimulate a sustainable fundamental attitude and strive for a sustainable vision on a school group level. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students investigate the different forms of state. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students follow current affairs. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students follow current affairs. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students work together in different ways. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students work together in different ways. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Teach the students to discuss in a respectful manner. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Teach the students to discuss in a respectful manner. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students make an analysis about the development and implementation of worldwide policies to do with climate change, biodiversity, etc. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Have the students make an analysis about the progress with implementing the SDGs worldwide and on a national level and determine who is responsible for that progress or the lack of it. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Play simulation games related to worldwide conference negotiations (for example, National Model United Nations, the climate summit ...). | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Klas | Play simulation games related to worldwide conference negotiations (for example, National Model United Nations, the climate summit ...). | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Look for partners for all school projects. | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Policy | Look for partners for all school projects. | Secondary education |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Action | Turn to parents for the decorating and maintenance of the outside space, pimping the dining hall ... | Primary educaton |
| SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the goals | Action | Turn to parents for the decorating and maintenance of the outside space, pimping the dining hall ... | Secondary education |