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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Children's Commissioner for Wales
The Children's Commissioner for Wales website offers a simple, easy online game for young children outlining the Rights of the Child. As children explore a community map they must collect all of their rights by clicking on everyday objects, once they have collected all of the rights in one section they are able to move to the next section of the map. |
Compasito 4.02 A constitution for our group
Children develop a group ‘constitution’ stating their rights and responsibilities. Through designing rules for their own group, students learn about democracy, citizenship and how to reach a group consensus for the common good. Suitable for Years 5-9 students. (Part of Compasito Human Rights Handbook).
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Compasito 4.09 Capture the Castle
This activity adaptable for students in Years 4-8 is an active adventure game. Students learn to co-operate with one another, exploring themes of peace, human security and conflict resolution. Emotions of conflict are addressed and strategic thinking employed. (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 4.13 Every vote counts
An activity suitable for students Years 7-9. Introduces children to democracy and aims to show the possibilities of citizen participation. Through simulating fair elections students become aware of the right of each person to participate in his/her government, either through holding office or electing representatives (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.23 Putting rights on the Map
This activity which is part of the Compasito Human Rights Education handbook invites the students to draw a map of their community. They are then asked to analyse it from a human rights perspective, linking venues with rights like freedom of religion, right to education. By doing this students are able to link their environment to human rights and to evaluate the human rights climate in their community.
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Compasito 4.30 The Battle for the orange
In this activity two teams compete to get the orange. However initially neither team knows that they want different parts of the orange, one team wants the juice the other needs the peel. After 3 minutes both teams have the possibility to discuss how they have handled the situation. This activity focuses on negotiation and conflict resolution skills. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.31 The invisibles are coming
In this activity, part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook, children try to go from one right (represented by a person) to another without being caught and try to reunify the different rights. The aim of this activity is to promote cooperation and solidarity. Suitable for Years 4-9.
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Compasito 4.36 What if the world were flat?
This activity takes a "what if...?" perspective and introduces children to the "effect cascade". Thinking about a change in their life (for example no longer being able to go to school), they have to think about the implications that this change would have (for example not being able to read or write). (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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