Learn About Human Rights and Community Issues
Learn About Human Rights and Community Issues
Learn about human rights and community issues with this week’s free educational resources from Career Development & Occupational Studies, aligned to NY State Academic Standards only on NYLearns!
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Elementary School
Soup Kitchen Kids
In this activity, students will learn that supermarkets provide products and services as well as learn to plan, shop for, and make soup for a local soup kitchen.
Students will:
- engage in a community service project—making soup for a local soup kitchen
- visit a local supermarket where a representative takes them on a tour
- make the soup for the soup kitchen with the assistance of the teacher and cafeteria staff
Related NY State Academic Standards: CDOS.E.1.1.C, CDOS.E.2.1.A, CDOS.E.2.1.B, CDOS.E.2.1.C, and more!
Middle School
Public Forum Night
In this activity, students will become more aware of community issues and possible solutions.
Students will:
- develop surveys for the community on various community issues
- survey the community and seek community issues
- research the issues and brainstorm possible solutions
Related NY State Academic Standards: ARTS.VA.I.1.1.B, CDOS.I.2.1.A, CDOS.I.3a.BS.1.A, CDOS.I.3a.TS.2.A, and more!
High School
Who Has Human Rights?
In this activity, students will apply the ideals of the Helsinki Agreement to the news, a novel (In the Time of the Butterflies), and themselves.
Students will:
- read In the Time of the Butterflies
- read the handout about the Helsinki Agreement and put it in their own words
- identify five times when basic human rights were unprotected in the novel In the Time of the Butterflies
Related NY State Academic Standards: CDOS.C.2.1.A, CDOS.C.2.1.B, CDOS.C.2.1.C, CDOS.C.3a.TS.2.A, and more!
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