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Citizenship at key stage 3 (Year 7-9)
Unit 16: Celebrating human rights - citizenship activities for the whole school
Section 1: How can we celebrate Human Rights Day?
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Objectives |
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- to establish a focus for a whole-school Human Rights Day event, and identify appropriate activities and audiences
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Activities |
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Outcomes |
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- Before Human Rights Day itself, ask pupils to work in class groups to establish their understanding of human rights. Approaches could include: class or group brainstorms; use of stimulus material, eg newspaper clippings; presentations by pupils or the teacher on the articles of the Human Rights Act or on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; or pupils doing research using internet or printed resources.
- Groups discuss whether they should focus on one particular human right or on human rights more generally. Encourage pupils to use ranking exercises, eg Diamond nines, voting, surveying opinion, to decide which issues to explore further.
- Ask groups of pupils to discuss types of activity, eg assemblies, displays, workshops, presentations, guest speakers, and appropriate audiences, eg their own year group, other year groups, parents, pupils from other schools.
- Summarise preferred topics, types of activity and target audiences/participants.
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- know what human rights are
- identify issues for further investigation
- identify what goes into making a special event
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Points to note |
- Draw on human rights work from other units, or ask older pupils to lead discussions, using materials from earlier studies.
- Diamond nines: statements on human rights issues are written on pieces of paper, then pupils put these into priority order using a diamond pattern, with the statement they agree with most at the top of the pattern and the statement they agree with least at the bottom.
- Seek the support of human rights experts or those involved in human rights education activities.
- Use websites for support and ideas from the many national
and international agencies listed in the resources section and in the Teacher's
guide.
- Link with thinking skills: enquiry, creativity, evaluation.
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This unit is divided into sections. Each section contains a sequence of
activities with related objectives and outcomes. You can view this unit by
moving through the sections or print/download the whole unit.
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