nuSTEM Newsletter 43 – UN Sustainability Goals: Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Welcome to Newsletter 43!
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Welcome back! For the next 6 weeks, we’ll be discussing the 17 UN Goals aimed to achieve global prosperity and peace by the year 2030.

In our newsletter you will be introduced to a STEM topic and find a related-activity to work on during the week (please share your results with us!), as well as extensions to additional learning or games related to the field. In addition, you will find a Northeastern connection – something Northeastern is doing related to that field. This week’s topic: UN Sustainability Goals – Decent Work and Economic Growth, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
. For a list of prior blog posts, see the blog index.

This week’s newsletter is written by: Priya Somanchi and Karen Zhu

Resource Highlight

Learn more about this week’s UN goals by digging a little deeper into their website!

Communications materials - United Nations Sustainable Development

Goal 8 | Department of Economic and Social Affairs  Sustainable Development Goal 9 - Wikipedia


Web Resources for K-12 Students and Parents

In addition to the resource highlight above, which is tied directly to the Newsletter topic, we will also highlight two new web resources each week.

  • Funologystudentresources
    Funology is a site full of science experiments, games, magic tricks and more! From water tornados, to dinosaurs or even jokes about insects, learn more and science while having a good time.
  • SciJinks
    Educators | NOAA SciJinks – All About Weather
    SciJinks is all about weather! SciJinks teaches kids all about meteology and earth science created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and NASA . This site talks all about the weather through videos, interactive games and more!

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