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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the concept of human rights by examining the arresting of prominent Chinese dissidents who are members of the China Democratic Party. They develop and defend their own Bill of Human Rights and write a reflective essay. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the concept of human rights by developing and defending their own 'Bills of Human Rights' and by writing a reflective essay that compares their notions of human rights and the protection of them. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the individual rights and situations to which the Bill of Rights applies. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the U.S. Bill of Rights. They conduct research on an amendment of the Bill of Rights, complete a worksheet that matches scenarios to amendments of the Bill of Rights, and write a letter to their Congressperson. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are introduced to the topic of human rights. Using print resources, they analyze the fight for human rights in different groups of people and societies. They create a working list of rights guarenteed to people and compare and contrast these rights with other countries. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students read and analyze three major documents in European history related to articulation of human rights, noting key principles, identify significant similarities and new concepts, and discuss application to contemporary issues in role play of authors of documents. Full Review »
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- 8th - 12th
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Students identify the issue of basic human rights, examine the importance of the UDHR, and compare it to United States Bill of Rights. They create a definition of human rights as a class. Students are divided into groups of four and they make a list of what they think are the fundamental and universal rights of humans. Pupils of given a copy of the Bill of Rights and the Universal Document of Human Rights. Full Review »
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- 10th - Higher Ed
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Students compare rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with those in the United States Bill of Rights and Amendments. They explore reasons for the presence or absence of certain rights. Full Review »
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- 6th - Higher Ed
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Students create an imaginary bill of rights and find correspondences between their ideas and specific articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are given a copy of the "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" and read them together. In groups, they match the rights listed on a master list with the articles in the Declaration and research specific rights using the internet. They also identify the article that refers to religion and discuss any obstacles to freedom in a country. Full Review »
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