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Creating an awareness of students about the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, should be a focus of teachers. Linking these goals into lessons that are being taught. When teaching Design and Technology, the students could be solving problems and addressing issues which relate directly to these goals. Source: https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/12/519172-sustainable-development-goals-kick-start-new-year Learners work through the stages of the Design Process (Investigate, Desig

Many years ago, at my first teaching job, our Head of Department had planted a wonderful garden in a small space on our small school property, at the bottom of Nugget Hill, in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. Her philosophy was that children should be able to see plants growing. It was a little space we could take the children to, in the concrete jungle, to show them insects and little garden creatures. Our HOD also encouraged us as teachers to pick small bunches of flowers for ou