SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being

Goal 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Currently, the world is facing a global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 is spreading human suffering, destabilising the global economy and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe. 

Select a picture book from here.

While there are many picture books that have wellbeing as a theme, and many more that encourage young children to think about germs, hand washing and disease, maybe this is the place to ensure that young children are informed about the wonders of modern medicine, vaccines, hospitals and doctors so that they are not afraid of them. When school resumes I am sure that I will be asked by parents for a book about vaccination in preparation for their child being vaccinated. For many of my students they have not had a vaccination since they started school and their memory of it will have dimmed.

For that reason perhaps I would start with Peppa Gets a Vaccination. It is not a child pictured, but Peppa, someone the children like and admire. The story is simple, not too many details and positive as Peppa is rewarded for doing as she is asked.

Then perhaps follow up with Philip Bunting's Me, Microbes and I so that  students  realise that microbes are part of normal everyday life.

Here's the blurb:

You are covered in microbes - tiny living things so small that you can't see them without a microscope. 
Me, Microbes & I is full of fascinating and entertaining information about microbes, and provides young readers with a simple and fun guide to how things like bacteria and viruses work in the body. It is packed with handy tips on how to stay healthy, from enjoying fermented foods to taking care of your immune system, and also provides information on how to stop the spread of nasty viruses - including how to cough like a vampire, and the best way to wash your hands. 

In my booklet, there are just three things to do:

* Before reading: Ask: Do you like going to the doctor? What makes you give that answer?

* Write the title of the book you read. We read ...

* Complete this sentence: Three things I can do to make sure I stay healthy are  ...