This document outlines the learning intentions, success criteria, and tasks for a unit on human rights. The unit will define human rights, identify student rights, explore equality in relation to human rights, examine the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and investigate current human rights issues. Students will research examples of upheld and neglected human rights, human rights activists, and create a poster promoting Human Rights Day in December. Tasks include creating a collage defining human rights, comparing student rights to the UN Declaration, researching case studies, and producing a presentation on cyber safety and human rights.

1. Human Rights
ILC Social Studies Term 4
Date

2. 01
Learning
Intentions
✤ To define human rights
✤ To identify student rights
✤ To inquire into equality in regard to human rights
✤ To understand the Human Rights Declaration
✤ To identify current issues regarding human rights
✤ To investigate cyber safety in regard to human rights
✤ To research examples of human right being upheld
or neglected
✤ To research human rights activist
✤ To create a Human Rights poster to promote Human
Rights Day in December

4. 01
Success Criteria
✤ Explain what human rights are
✤ Identify student rights and responsibilities that
come with them
✤ Presentation about one aspect of human rights
e.g. Justice, with examples of positives and
negatives, and possible solutions to problems
✤ Discuss the Human Rights Declaration Charter
✤ Create a Cause- effect graphic organiser about
cyber safety.
✤ Create a wall display of current issues
regarding human rights

7. 01
Task
(Groups of 3)
Brainstorm what you know about human
rights
Create a picollage of human rights
including your groups definition of what
human rights are written in YOUR OWN
WORDS.

8. Task
Exploring Concept of Human Rights
✤ Download the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
✤ Read the top twenty achievements of the human rights
movement
http://at20.ohchr.org/achievements.html
✤ Compare it to your picollage. What aspects did you miss
out, or have, that you deem important.
✤ Think about your student rights. Explain what is meant by:
With rights come responsibilities.

9. 01
Research Task
1
✤ Research examples of
children's human rights being
upheld or neglected. Make a
table summary.
✤ Choose one to research
deeper.
✤ Write 3-4 open study questions
✤ Answer questions in-depth to
create a visual presentation.

10. 01
Research Task
2
✤ Research human rights leaders
and activists
✤ Write 3-4 inquiry questions
✤ Answer questions in depth
including the reason why this
person takes this role, their
achievements, problems, and
solutions.

11. 01
Task (on-going)
✤ Collect current examples of
human rights being upheld or
neglected from news reports, on
line magazines, video clips or any
other source. You may need to
write this up in your own words
and state where you heard or saw
it.
✤ If possible have a hard copy to
add to a wall display.

12. 01
Human rights and
us: cyber safety
✤ Download a cause and effect graphic
organiser
✤ Brainstorm what you know about
issues with human rights and cyber
space.
✤ Group brainstorm into human rights
into categories e.g. Right to privacy
✤ View and discuss YouTube clip in
class
✤ Create a cyber safety rap, song or
poem promoting cyber safety advice

13. 01

14. 01
Art Task
You have been asked by Helen Clark,
Administrator, United Nations
Development Programme, to create the
next Human Rights poster for Human
Rights Day in December.
Presentation media is your choice.
This can be individual or pair task.