Unit
Topic
Theme

Region
Length

Goals

Skills

1.

Empowering Global Citizens

7.6

SDG 5, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment

ICC: interpersonal (one’s own identity and culture and oth—
ers’ identities and cultures); ICC: intrapersonal (curiosity
about global affairs, recognizing prejudice, and minimizing
the effects of prejudice); ethics: commitment to equality and
common values; work and mind habits: cross-cultural per—
spective taking); economic development; and globalization
Developing world (as this unit focus on SDG 5)

Two weeks

and Objectives

Learn about the importance of gender parity and its links with the
other SDGs.

Inspire students to treat everyone equally and with respect and to
reflect upon how small actions and behaviors can make a difference
in combatting gender stereotypes.

Act in ways that are gender sensitive and demonstrate an under—

standing of the importance of treating men and women equally.

and Knowledge

Students will become familiar with the importance of SDG 5, its
targets, and its indicators.

Students will draw links between gender inequality and social, po-
litical, and economic inequality.

Students will understand the relevance of and need for women’s
empowerment and its role in national, international and global

development.

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