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Human Rights Role-play

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders demonstrate an awareness of the needs, rights, and feelings of others through participation in the planning and presentation of a human rights role-play. They express their thoughts on human rights through writing.
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Human Rights, Human Wrongs

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers consider the meaning of the term 'human rights'. They define human rights and research how international human rights doctrine has been established and what specifics are included.
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Human Rights

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars explore the need for rules and human rights. They imagine what it would be like without rules or rights. Students complete a case study involving human rights in Afghanistan. Young scholars share a top ten list of Human...
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Who Follows the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine how countries relate to te Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Working in pairs, they create definitions of human rights and explain why the Declarqation is important. Groups of students uncover examples of human...
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United Nations International Declaration of Human Rights (1947) - 12 October 2000

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students use the 1947 Declaration of Human Rights to explore the concept of basic human rights in relation to past and present world situations. They brainstorm or think of cases where rights are being abused at school, in Australia or...
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Human Rights : Historical Process towards Individual Application

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students compare governments as they relate to human rights of its citizens.
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Right to Privacy

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the right to privacy as laid out in the United States Constitution. Using the text, they search the material for specific reference to protection of individual privacy. In groups, they use one provision of the Patriot...
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The Legal Challenge of Human Rights Protection

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students identify the types and extent of human rights violations that occurred in El Salvador . They will also analyze the various laws and statutes that dictate the processes to protect and punish war crimes and human rights...
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Stories of Students Who Took Action: Human Rights

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners read stories of young human rights advocates and discuss examples where young people made a difference. They consider local problems, relate them to human rights principles and role-play possible solutions.
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Taking the Human Rights Temperatutre of Your School

For Teachers 6th - Higher Ed
Students evaluate their school's human rights climate using criteria derived from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They discuss the results and develop a plan of action to begin addressing the problems they find.
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Taking the Human Rights Temperature of Your School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers evaluate their school's human rights climate. They administer a survey, participate in discussion groups and consider the human rights enjoyed by various groups including subgroups of gender, race and sexual orientation.
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A World Made New: Human Rights After the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After reading excerpts, they discover how cultural values have been blended into the UDHR. They discuss how their school and community deal with human rights...
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Religious Freedom - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine the issue of religious freedom in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They annotate on maps places where religious persecution has occured. Students in pair participate in an active listening exercise as each one...
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Adequate Standard of Living: Children's Rights

For Teachers K
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to explore the issue of every person's right to adequate housing. They make butter, make models of different types of housing, read books, discuss the rights and...
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Creating NEW Human Rights

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Young scholars decide on what human rights should exist at a new hypothetical planet after watching clips of three videos. They complete journal entries which tell about factors that influence new human rights.
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Equality: Children's Rights

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to help them explore the similarities and differences of people. They design and wear masks, sort attribute blocks, read stories, discuss the rights and...
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Rights Abuses Around the World: What Can We Do?

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students read about an Urgent Action information sheet from Amnesty International and a petition about human rights abuses against sexual minorities outside the USA. They discuss the situation, read about other similar cases and then...
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Human Rights Timeline

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students create a time line that includes personal, national, and international human rights events. The instructional activity is very personal and encourages students to understand themselves and others within the community.
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The Body of Human Rights

For Teachers 5th - Higher Ed
Young scholars, in groups, draw a life-size outline of a person on paper. They then place each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on a part of the body, writing the number of the article in the appropriate place (e.g.,...
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Individual Rights -- Freedom of Speech at School

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine their individual rights at a public school. In groups, they identify the most common ways of expressing themselves and why they should limit their speech in public. They compare and contrast two cases in which they...
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Rights of Non-Citizen Immigrants

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students continue their discussion of if coming to America was the best thing for a group of immigrants. As a class, they complete the citizenship test offered by the INS. They research the benefits and responsibilities of being a...
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Famous Women and Human Rights

For Teachers 4th
Student identify a famous woman who has fought for a human rights cause. They research the woman and identify the cause she fought for. They organize and display information about their famous woman on a poster.
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Individual Rights And Responsibilities

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate a trial in the netherlands in order to comprehend the concept of human rights and how they need protection. They conduct the research done by reading in small groups and have a mock trial using the details of the...
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Discrimination

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars investigate what discrimination is and study Article 2 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They participate in a role play activity involving majority and minority groups for which a letter was sent home to...

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