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Lesson plans

DonM 22 September 2008, 07:42PM

Human Rights today

Human Rights today is a new curriculum resource which has been developed by Curriculum Corporation for Amnesty International Australia for use by teachers and students in years 9 and 10.

You can download a sample chapter, Tuning In to Human Rights .

Compilations of lesson plans

  • Voice Our Concern. Check out "Voice Our Concern" for classroom activities and some great ideas for taking action. The project, developed by Amnesty International in Ireland, is built around students working with artists to produce creative resources exploring human rights.
  • Lift Off: Human Rights Education for primary level. "Lift Off" is a major human rights education package for 8-12 year olds. "Lift Off" materials are based on an outer space character called CROC (using the acronym for the Convention on the Rights of the Child.) CROC comes from another planet to Earth to find out about our lives. Children engage with CROC through responding to its questions and examining some of the problems it discovers while here on Earth. "Lift Off" has been developed through collaboration between Amnesty International (Irish and UK sections), the Irish National Teachers' Organisation, the Ulster Teachers' Union, and Education International. View more details and resources.
  • First Steps: a guide to Human Rights Education prepared by Amnesty International.
  • Siniko: a Human Rights Education manual produced by Amnesty for use in Africa, which includes plenty of useful activities for any region. For formal and non-formal educational environments. It is designed as a basic introduction, with advice on methodology, activities for older and younger children and ideas for action.
  • Citizen of Humanity Lesson Plans: these lesson plans were developed by Australia's National Committee for Human Rights Education (nine prepared lessons, notes to teachers, student evaluation and Curriculum Framework Indicators
  • Human Rights Lesson Plans for South East Asian Schools: lesson plans developed by the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center in 2003. The material includes resources for primary and secondary levels, and features topics such as: "Living in a Clean Environment", "I'm Entitled to Leisure", "Child Labour", "Human Dignity", "National Budget and Taxation", "Migrant Workers" and "Street Children".

Lesson plans

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