From Reel to Real: Teaching Sustainability through Cinema

From Reel to Real: Teaching Sustainability through Cinema

The need to address climate change and promote sustainability is urgent. Our actions today will affect future generations. With this in mind, AcadeMe+ created SDG+, a digital curriculum focused on climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through movies.

It’s the duty of today’s adults to prepare together a world where future generations can thrive and enjoy the wonders of our magnificent planet.

SDG+ Community

• 50+ Movies and teacher guides, 100+ clips, over 20 Interactive Lessons and over 100 bites.
• Teachers can create new lessons or clone and edit existing lessons.

• Once teachers publish the lesson, making it public, it is aligned with the subject, topic and the movie/s the lesson includes. Other teachers can easily find it, and use the same lesson in their class, or edit it to fit their students’ needs.

SDG+ interactive lesson

A Sustainable Future (Interstellar) Lesson Created By: Academe Plus

Lesson Topic: Exploring SDG 13: Climate Action through the film “Interstellar”

In this lesson, we’ll discuss subjects like:

• Watch relevant clips from the movie
• Engage in discussions about the film’s depiction of a climate crisis
• Analyze the impact of human actions on the environment
• Explore connections between the film and real-world climate challenges (e.g., rising sea levels, extreme weather events, food scarcity)
• Conduct group activities and research on innovative solutions to climate change

Ice Age: Adaptation and Survival

Lesson Created By: Journeys in Film

In this lesson, we’ll discuss subjects like:

• The ways in which Earth has changed throughout its history.
• The conditions on Earth during the last ice age.
• The impact of a changing climate to life on Earth.
• The relationships between different organisms in a food chain.
• The ways in which organisms protect themselves in order to survive.
• The ways in which organisms adapt over long periods of Earth’s history.

From Disposable to Sustainable (WALL-E)

Lesson Created By: Journeys in Film

In this lesson, we’ll discuss subjects like:

• The environment. Loneliness and connection.
• Convenience and disposable culture.
• Land reclamation.

Recommended age group: 3rd grade and up.

Lesson duration: In class and blended learning, 3-5 hours.

Grade: Elementary, High School, Middle School

SDG+ Bites

Bites are 15 min. lessons to explain a specific term. The bite includes intro, opening question, video clip from a movie, interactive question and a summery activity. Our SDG+ program offer’s over 50 bites related to SDG terms.

BITE : RAINFORESTS AND PRODUCTION (Before The Flood)

Lesson Created By: Academe

Lesson Topic: Rainforests and Sustainable Production/Consumption

Recommended Age Group: 7th-9th Grades

Duration: 15-45 minutes

Grade Level: Middle School

BITE : A GAZE AT A POSSIBLE FUTURE)

Lesson Created By: Academe

Lesson Topic: Awareness Raising for SDG 16

Recommended Age Group: 5th-6th Grades

Duration: 15-45 minutes

Grade Level: Elementary