2. What is to come …
Semester One – History
⬜ Changing Rights and Freedoms (looking at USA and Australia)
Semester Two - Geography
⬜ Environmental Change and Management
⬜ Human Wellbeing
3. Remaining assessments in Year Ten
◻ Skills and Topic Test
■ End Term 2, focus on History
Skills and Changing Rights &
Freedoms
◻ Research and Creative Task
■ Due second half Term 3
◻ Writing Portfolios
■ Writing once per fortnight
■ Choose & submit 2 samples in Term
3
◻ Semester Two Examination
■ Mid Term 4 focus on Geography
Skills and Human Wellbeing Topic
History – Semester One Geography – Semester Two
4. Changing
Rights and
Freedoms
Origins and
significance of
the UDHR
Rights & freedoms of
Aboriginal & Torres
Strait Islander peoples
before1965
US Civil Rights
movement and
Australia
Methods used to
achieve change
in Australia
Continuing efforts to
achieve civil rights
and freedoms in
Australia
COPY THIS MIND MAP INTO
YOUR GOOGLE DOCS.
6. The Topic
• Human Rights
• Freedoms
• Oppression
• Assimilation
• Personal Opinions
7. Introduction to Rights and Freedoms
Learning Goal
◻ Outline the purpose of the United Nations
◻ Describe what human rights and freedoms are, using examples
Success Criteria
1. I can describe the importance of rights and freedoms that
people should have
2. I can provide features of the United Nations and its work
towards peace
8. Human Rights- Starter
Task Two
1. Define the word “rights” in your own words
2. What do you think are the top THREE human rights you are
entitled to?
3. Have you heard of the United Nations Universal Declaration
of Human Rights (UDHR)?
9. Fundamental Human Rights - Video
◻ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnoWFZ29xSE
◻ Watch the video and make 5 or 7 dot points.
10. Human Rights and Freedoms -
Create Your own Mind Map - Task Three
◻ What do you believe are
fundamental human rights?
11. Rights and Freedoms Show Bag
What
rights do I
have?
Should all
people
have the
same
rights?
What
should we
NOT see in
society
Threats
◻ You are to create a ‘show bag’ of rights and freedoms
◻ Write a list or find pictures of what would appear in that ‘show
bag’
◻ Use the questions below to help you decide:
12. Rights and Freedoms
◻ Task Four
◻ What does it mean, what are rights and what are freedoms as
a definition?
13. Rights and Freedoms - Task
◻What does it mean, what are rights and what are freedoms as a definition?
◻RIGHTS (Defined by the UN):
“Human rights are rights (claims) that all human beings should have,
regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other
status.”
◻FREEDOM: “The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants, the
state of not being imprisoned or enslaved”
◻It means more than just 'free to do whatever I want'.
15. United Nations
◻ The main role of the United Nations (UN) is to
_________________ __________________.
◻ Two of the ways that they achieve this is through:
1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
16. United Nations - COPY THIS! Task Five
◻ The main role of the United Nations (UN) is to establish and
maintain peace, eliminate poverty and uphold human rights across
the globe.
◻ Two of the ways that they achieve this is through:
1. Peacekeeping forces
2. The General Assembly & Security Council
17.
18.
19. Eddie Mabo - Research Task
◻ Task Six
◻ CLASS: What do you know of Eddie Mabo and the Mabo Case?
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mabo-edward-koiki-eddie-16122
◻ Research option if knowledge is limited:
Find information on the following
1. Who was Eddie Mabo?
2. What does Terra Nullius mean?
3. What was the Mabo Case about?
4. 3 reasons why this was such an significant case.
20. Respond to the following statement:
◻ Task Seven
Prepare a brief paragraph response (ie - use sentences):
◻ Write about why you agree or disagree
◻ Say what this should look like in the world
◻ Describe whether you feel we are achieving it and why
“All humans beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights”
21. Recap & exit tickets
Success Criteria
1. I can describe the importance of rights and freedoms that
people should have
2. I can provide features of the United Nations and its work
towards peace
Exit Ticket
Create a 140 character post about the what we have covered in
class regarding rights and freedoms and/or the U.N.
Then create a #hashtag to go with your post.
