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Table 5 The UN sustainable development goals covered during an ESS internship focused around
food, gardening and nutrition
Just one example of an ESS internship students elect is an opportunity to prepare
and implement education plans for middle school students around issues of food,
gardening, and nutrition. They spend several weeks working with an educator to
research and develop their lesson plans and then go into classrooms to teach middle
school students. As such, they engage with 8 of the UN SDGs (Table 5).
Another popular internship option is to work with the environmental education
group Creek Connections. Creek Connections hires up to 16 students each year to
assist in their outreach programming with local schools teaching students ages 10
through 18. Students assist in water quality monitoring, sampling invertebrates, and
site surveys. Additionally, they help develop teacher resources, prepare equipment
for school visits, enhance the website, and develop a newsletter. Throughout this
internship the UN SDGs listed in Table 6 are addressed.