Chemistry education for sustainability – sustainability as a common thread through school chemistry and an example of a teaching unit on the climate impact of carbon dioxide.

Translation abstract Education for Sustainable Development has been an essential part of instruction in chemistry classes for some time now. Leaners experiencing sustainable education are enabled to understand coherences and sustainable action by approaching a topic using different perspectives, that is ecological, economic, political, social and cultural dimensions. In this paper, it is shown how nearly all Unesco Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be connected to compulsory content of the German curriculum. Furthermore, a learning unit for students grade ten with the topic “Climate impact of carbon dioxide and approaches to emission reduction” is presented that illustrates how the mentioned dimensions can be addressed in chemistry lessons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]