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Ruby Bridges & School Integration

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore school integration issues. In this Civil Rights Movement lesson, students read Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges and school integration and then write reflections about difficult experiences.
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Population Diversity And Human Rights

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept of economic sanctions. In this population diversity and human rights lesson, students examine how the United States uses economic sanctions to support or prohibit international activities. Students present...
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Critical Analysis Leads to Global Action

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners discover the interconnectedness of the world. In this global studies lesson, students identify challenges the world faces and craft solutions to the problems they identified. Learners present their findings in a PowerPoint...
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Corporate Human Rights Policies

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine corporate human rights policies. In this business ethics activity, students read articles and conduct research that allows them to respond to and discuss the provided business ethics questions.
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Investigating Past and Present: A Look at The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students compare the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to the war crimes of WWII. In this lesson on Human Rights, students evaluate the causes of WWII, war crimes, and determine whether the outcome might have been different otherwise.
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Culminating Writing Assessment: History

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students reflect on power, privilege, and standing in American society. In this writing skills instructional activity, students respond to the question, "If you are denied power, privilege, and equal standings with other Americans, how...
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Human Rights Defenders Scavenger Hunt: A Computer Lab Activity

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore human rights issues. In this human rights lesson, students use the Carter Center Human Rights Defenders website to complete a scavenger hunt that allows them to investigate the work of those fighting for human rights...
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Stitching Truth Lesson Two: The Arpilleristas in Pinochet's Chile

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze arpilleras. In this Chilean history instructional activity, students examine social justice issues as they read and interpret arpilleras. Students study the tapestries to learn about Augusto Pinochet and his human rights...
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Human Rights Violations

For Teachers K - 12th
Students explore how human rights are different in each part of the world.  In this freedome instructional activity, students define human rights, research how human rights in one country ultimately affect other countries, and share...
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International Day In Support Of Torture Victims

For Students 7th - 8th
In this international day in support of torture victims activity, students read or listen to a passage the match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose the correct words, unscramble words and sentences, put sentences in order, write...
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Ceremony

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students complete multiple lessons to identify the human rights and social justice for Native Americans. In this human rights activity, students complete fifty one days of activities to a activity titled "Ceremony" about the Native...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Human Rights

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students use Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as analysis on human rights. For this human rights lesson, students develop an awareness of human rights issues and explore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights using the...
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Human Rights: What Will Students and Teacher Do?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students analyze the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights." In this human rights lesson, students explore the text of this document and watch Amnesty International videos about human rights. Students then locate and discuss articles on...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Taking Action

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students create a human rights project based on their lesson plan with Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In this human rights lesson plan, students participate in a humanitarian gesture as volunteers by creating a human...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Human Rights

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Students define the universal rights of human beings. In this human rights lesson, students visit the website about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and read all parts of the document. Students discuss why there is a need for...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Human Rights in the News

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students examine human rights issues using Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. For this human rights lesson, students review a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and complete a survey for their school about...
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Human Rights at School

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students evaluate the human rights climate for their school. In this human rights lesson, students complete activities to identify the human rights climate at their school using the lesson plan on the given link.
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Darfur Now Lesson Four: The Messages of Darfur Now

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the work in individuals that are part of Darfur Now. In this human rights lesson, students also analyze the message of Weisel's Not on Our Watch. Students create found poems pertaining to social responsibility and activism.
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In the 1960s, Why Were Boston’s Schools Racially Segregated?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the implications of segregation. For this Civil Rights lesson, students investigate what equal education is as they discover the state of Boston schools in 1960. Students define civil rights and discrimination as they...
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Who’s Got Rights? An Introduction to Human Rights and Human Rights Defenders

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore human rights issues. In this social justice instructional activity, students examine human rights as they read segments of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," discuss photographs with human rights...
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Education as a Civil Right

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the implications of segregation. For this Civil Rights lesson, students investigate what equal education is as they discover the state of Boston schools in 1960. Students define civil rights and discrimination as they...
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Observing Elections Around the World

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners examine elections in countries around the world. In this elections lesson, students watch a video segment regarding election observations and then access selected websites to research specified elections. Learners prepare...
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F is for Fair!

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine their human right to education.  In this American Government lesson, 9th graders evaluate how well the world is doing when it comes to providing a free, equal, quality education to our youth. 
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Children at War

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine human rights by taking a closer look at children in combat. In this human rights lesson, students discuss the reasons that children have been used to fight wars throughout history and today. Students analyze the...