In this activity you will analyze and demonstrate the importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for your community’s environmental well-being by creating an educational presentation

Step 1: Select your preferred format/media that you will use to create your educational advocacy tool. You can create slides (PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation), a piece of writing in a blog format (with/without pictures included), a trifold brochure, a video, an infographic for social media, etc.

Step 2: Review the 17 goals on the United Nations - Sustainable Development Goals website. 

Step 3: Choose one or more Sustainable Development Goal(s) that you believe best-supports an important and achievable environmental health advance to be implemented in your community. Prepare suggestions for community leaders for overcoming these challenges.

Step 4: Create a tool directed to a specific cohort of community leaders (e.g., City Council, mayor’s office, Health Department, School Board, Hospital Board, social/volunteer group, shareholder meeting), explaining the importance of achieving the SDGs, and including your compellingly conveyed suggestions on how to locally overcome these selected goals for your community. Be sure to create an engaging presentation (using this resource as a reference), and use a language at a B2 level for your audience (use this resource as a reference). Your tool should have a maximum of 20 slides for a presentation, 500 words in a blog format, or 5 minutes in length for a video format. 

All references should follow 7th Edition APA formatting. See the resource on the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library for instructions: APA citation resource (references are excluded from word counts).

Step 5: Self-Analysis and Enhancement

Before you submit, engage in an introspective self-analysis by systematically reviewing each component of your work. Reflect on what aspects of your work were executed well and what could be enhanced. Proceed to refine these elements in your work. 

Step 6: Submit your assignment by clicking “add a new discussion topic” below, completing the fields, and clicking “post to forum”.

We want to publish the best works on our website and social media, if you want your work to be published, insert a sentence about it in this forum’s post description.

Step 7 (optional): Submit your presentation or present it to your selected community leadership.

OPTIONAL Step 8: Interact (10 minutes)

If you would like to, you can reply to your peers' posts in a respectful and professional manner. Ensure that your post engages your peers' ideas by including a reflection on their comments, sharing ideas of other potential difficulties and parties involved, or asking thought-provoking questions. If a peer comments on your posting, please reply. To post a reply, click “Reply” on a particular discussion, write your feedback and then click on “Post to forum.”