October 6th, 2015

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!

Learn About Human Rights and Community Issues:  Soup Kitchen Kids Learn About Human Rights and Community Issues: Public Forum Night Learn About Human Rights and Community Issues: Who Has Human Rights?

 

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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