EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY PLAN
TOPIC: Sustainable Development: Natural Indicators and Good Health (SDG 3)
CLASS / DURATION / PREPARED BY:
Grades 7–8; 2 lessons (recommended in October–November)
Prepared by: Karolina
LEARNING TASK
Students investigate how natural indicators can help assess environmental conditions that affect human health and well-being, understand the links between sustainable development and healthy living, and apply inquiry-based learning to evaluate the acidity/alkalinity of everyday substances.
GOALS ACCORDING TO THE GENERAL CURRICULUM (2008)
General competences
- Learning to learn: Students purposefully work to implement the lesson task, evaluate their learning progress, and use the indicated learning tools. They learn to reflect on how environmental factors influence human health.
- Cognitive: They choose and apply inquiry methods, investigate safely, and connect the results with the concept of sustainability and SDG 3.
- Social: They cooperate constructively to achieve a common goal, communicate in groups, show empathy, and understand shared responsibility for promoting community health.
- Personal: They trust themselves, concentrate efforts to achieve goals, behave safely, follow lab safety rules, and understand how daily choices impact their own health and environmental well-being.
Subject competences
- Plan and carry out observations and experiments using natural indicators.
- Use school science tools and household materials safely and creatively.
- Formulate conclusions, compare group results, and discuss possible reasons for differences.
- Reflect on how the acidity or alkalinity of substances can impact human health in everyday life.
- Explain and evaluate advantages of natural indicators regarding sustainability and safety.
Integration with other subjects
- Ethics: responsible lifestyle choices.
- Biology: factors affecting human health.
- Geography: sustainable development goals.
- Chemistry: acids, bases, indicators.
MATERIALS / EQUIPMENT
Chokeberries, red cabbage, beetroot, glasses, gauze, gloves, lab coats, filter paper, dryer, tweezers, acidic and alkaline solutions (vinegar, lemon juice, baking soda, soapy water).
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
- Introduction of the topic and SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being.
- Discussion of lab safety rules and personal health protection.
- Learning about natural and synthetic indicators.
- Group work: preparing natural indicators.
- Testing solutions and discussing their impact on human health.
- Connecting results with sustainable development and chemical safety.
- Reflection and summary.
REFLECTION. ASSESSMENT
Students complete reflection sentences such as:
- In this lesson I learned that…
- It was interesting…
- I would like to learn more about…
- How I did in this lesson…
- How natural indicators help promote sustainability and health…
APPENDIX 1
Indicators explanation and sustainability connection (as in original).
APPENDIX 2
Work procedure and summary table (as in original).
APPENDIX 3
Assessment criteria: Safe work (1 point), Summary table (8 points), Tidying workplace (1 point), Ability to connect results to SDG 3 (verbal assessment).
