ASP Summer Institute 09 Lesson Plan Template



ASP Summer Institute 09 Lesson Plan Template

Lesson Title: Human Rights Violations

Subject and Grade Level: K-12 Lesson #: 1-3

Time Required (minutes, class periods, etc.): Adapt content and methodology to subject and grade.

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Lesson Description:

The purpose of this lesson is to provide students with the understanding and knowledge of how Africa, Asia, and Latin America has been affected by human rights violations and how problems in one part of the world often affect other parts of the world.

Objectives:

Students will learn: 1) How human right violations have occurred throughout history. Example: Arabs & Jews. 2) How this problem may affect a particular nation or region of the world. 3) Students will learn how this problem has become a global issue.

Key Ideas and/or Driving Questions:

Atlantic Slave Trade, Apartheid, Policy, Genocide, Holocaust, The Gulag, Death Squads, Tiananmen Square, Terrorism, Pol Pot & the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia), and Neo-Nazis & Skinheads.

Key Vocabulary:

Ethnic cleansing, Discrimination, Persecution, Forced labor, Relocation, Homeland destruction, and Denial of human civil & legal rights.

Background Knowledge Needed (teacher and student):

Reading and writing about current events, publications, and the Internet to build a current knowledge base. Content & context, proliferation, collaboration of resources, and partnership.

Materials:

Primary resources, newspapers articles & publications, and online resources.

Procedures:

Students will select two or three topics from the list about whose human rights have been violated. Students will then research specific key events that caused these violations by identifying both the oppressed group and the oppressing group and the time and location.

Closure & Assessment (tie to key ideas - what was learned):

Present an oral report (summary), give a written synopsis, make a collage, poster, or explain the main idea in a cartoon, and role play or debate.

Extensions/Connections (including possible grade level and interdisciplinary modifications):

Historical setting (time & location), World technology today (sharing skills & knowledge), Geography skills (land & resources), Political setting (power & people), and Economic setting (money & power).

Related Standards:

Indiana Social Studies standards, Economics: Standard #5 (1.5 Individuals, Society, & Culture), World History: Standard #11 (11.1 Historical Research).

Resources (include useful web links):

Virtual resources for teaching Social Studies.

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