Australian Human Rights Commission
This link takes you to the Australian Human Rights Commission website, where you can access human rights activities for the classroom. These activities are suitable for a wide range of age groups.
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Compasito 4.03 A human rights calendar
An activity easily adaptable for Years 4-9 students. Increasing student awareness of human rights issues/milestones by creating a human rights calendar. Involving artistic creativity and social contemplation. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.04 Advertising in Human Rights
A creative activity requiring students to write and film a T.V advertisement for children's rights. Through choosing one right to advertise and thinking about their target audience - students practice critical thinking with regards to human rights and the advertising industry. Communication, participation and production skills are also employed, such as acting, film production and editing, story telling, singing and public speaking. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook)
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Compasito 4.06 Board Games
An activity suitable for students in Years 4-8 for which a prior knowledge of UNCRoC is necessary. Students build familiarity with UNCRoC and learn to relate its articles to everyday life through playing 'human rights snake and ladders';being required to cite applicable children's rights violations throughout the game. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook)
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Compasito 4.10 Compasito Reporter
In this activity children act as reporters and research human rights issues in their community. By identifying and researching human rights issues around them children develop an awareness of human rights in their everyday life and develop collaborative skills for active participation to defend rights and violations. Suitable for children in Years 6-9 (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).Download as PDF 250KB)
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Compasito 4.12 Dear Diary
An activity involving story telling and discussion, adaptable for students in Years 4-9. Children read three different accounts of the same experience and discuss mistaken judgments about people. The activity aims to enhance empathy and understanding of the subjectivity of individual experience for children - and incorporates broader themes of health and welfare, poverty and social exclusion (part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.14 from bystander to helper
This activity is part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook. Children to speak about situtaitons where they have observed or experienced violence. They are then asked to think about solutions and a helping behaviour for such situations. Observing that everyone experiences violence in different ways throughout their lives leads to reflexion about the responsibility to help and defend each other.
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Compasito 4.15 Human rights in the news
This activity (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook) aims to enhance awareness of human rights in the media and everyday life. Students scan media and observe how they cover human rights issues.
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Compasito 4.17 Most important for whom?
This activity encourages children to decide on which right of the Convention of the Rights of the Child is the most important to them and which are less important. After deciding and explaining their decision, they should reflect how it would be if they were to really lose one of the rights and how their life would be affected. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.22 Puppets tell the story
This activity, part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook, encourages children to recognize human rights violations in known stories and to find a solution through a dramatisation with puppets. Suitable for Years 4-9.
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