Tackle poverty in chemistry lessons

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Link the science you teach in your classroom to poverty and inequality targeted by the UN’s SDGs

Many of the UN’s sustainable development goals are relevant to chemistry teaching. Goal 1, end poverty in all its forms everywhere, can easily fit into your lessons on corrosion, properties of chlorine, climate change, solubility, acids and bases, intermolecular forces, pH and equilibria. This article gives ideas for relevant context and suggests resources and activities to include the goal within your teaching. Download the accompanying resource for critical thinking and research tasks suitable for age range 16–18 on aspirin and other drugs.

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