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Table 1.

PBL-SDG scenarios

Topic	Learning outcomes	SDG
Global crisis on plastics: capitalism, human health and environmental degradation	a) Explain which are the main types of plastics and how they are degraded	12, 13
	b) Identify plastics as potential POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) and their relationship with the Stockholm Convention	13, 14, 15
	c) Describe the mechanical, chemical and microbiological effects of plastics in the human body	3
	d) Analyze how plastics alter both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems	14, 15
	e) Acquire a broad and critical vision of the pejorative effects of the plastics’ cycle on human and environmental health	1, 10, 13, 14, 15
	f) Evaluate the different ways that exist to address the current conflict of the overuse of single-use plastics	12
Contraceptive pills: impact on human health, the environment and menstrual stigma	a) Explain the physiology of the menstrual cycle and its effects in the whole body	3
	b) Know the composition, the mechanism of action and the effects of the contraceptive pills used to delay or remove the menstrual cycle	3
	c) Analyze the effects that synthetic estrogens, as endocrine disruptors, have in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems	14, 15
	d) Relate the existing social stigma of menstruation with the use of extended and continuous-use oral contraceptives	5
	e) Propose ways of addressing the conflict of the use of oral contraceptives to eliminate the menstrual cycle with a scientific and a gender perspective	3, 5, 12

Topic	Learning outcomes	SDG
Global crisis on plastics: capitalism, human health and environmental degradation	a) Explain which are the main types of plastics and how they are degraded	12, 13
	b) Identify plastics as potential POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) and their relationship with the Stockholm Convention	13, 14, 15
	c) Describe the mechanical, chemical and microbiological effects of plastics in the human body	3
	d) Analyze how plastics alter both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems	14, 15
	e) Acquire a broad and critical vision of the pejorative effects of the plastics’ cycle on human and environmental health	1, 10, 13, 14, 15
	f) Evaluate the different ways that exist to address the current conflict of the overuse of single-use plastics	12
Contraceptive pills: impact on human health, the environment and menstrual stigma	a) Explain the physiology of the menstrual cycle and its effects in the whole body	3
	b) Know the composition, the mechanism of action and the effects of the contraceptive pills used to delay or remove the menstrual cycle	3
	c) Analyze the effects that synthetic estrogens, as endocrine disruptors, have in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems	14, 15
	d) Relate the existing social stigma of menstruation with the use of extended and continuous-use oral contraceptives	5
	e) Propose ways of addressing the conflict of the use of oral contraceptives to eliminate the menstrual cycle with a scientific and a gender perspective	3, 5, 12

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Summary of the topics, the tackled SDG and the main objectives of the two PBL-SDG scenarios designed for the first- and second-year students