Model and lessons for human rights education focused around personal identity, awareness, issue recognition, action development and social action. Lessons include: Standing Up to Bullying
Living in the Caste System
Child Labor on Cocoa Farms in West Africa
What Makes a Healthy Neighborhood
Education: A Human Right
Hunger and Malnutrition
Poverty in Kibera, Kenya
Circus Union
Water Museum Project: Water as a Human Right
Sixty-five years ago, the verdicts were delivered at the first Nuremberg trial. U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Albert Rose Days of Remembrance, May 1-8, 2011 Congress established the Days of Remembrance as the nation's annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. Holocaust remembrance week is April 15-22, 2012.
WE PARTNER WITH YOU... [teachers - camp counselors - social service agencies -religious institutions - home school groups - cities] TO TEACH PEACEMAKING SKILLS...[communication - connection - cooperation - conflict prevention and management] THROUGH EXPLORATION OF WORLD CULTURES... Shared by Peggy Goetz.
Welcome to Kids to Kids International! Kids to Kids International is a non-profit organization providing an educational program for children to send Friendship Boxes of student-created picture books and educational supplies to children around the world since 1991. Shared by Peggy Goetz.
The UUA website has a wealth of free downloadable curricula, covering the lifespan from kindergarten to Adult. There are 11 different curricula for children in grades Kindergarten through 6. (Plus more for youth and adults) You can download; edit and save your edited version; and email lesson plans to your teachers. This is an amazing free resource. Shared by Peggy Goetz
"In God We Teach" is a great 1-hour documentary about the separation of church and state in the classroom. Matt LaClair (who grew up through Ethical Culture) stood up to his teacher proselytizing in class and started a great debate in his hometown, which spread. The film represents both sides well so I believe it is a great piece for the older kids to learn about bullying, taking a stand on what you believe, and dealing with various critics. Shared by Emily Newman.
For Coming of Age and even youth groups, this resource is quite extensive!
There are workbooks that you can download -- they seem to me to be great resources for educators in ethics, and could be well used by the older children in EC programs. They outline any "ethical issue" and ethics as expressed from various cultural and intellectual voices throughout human history. Shared by Audrey Kindred
Your Words Can CHANGE LIVES. Your words can be a SPOTLIGHT that exposes the dark corners of the torture chamber. They can bring POWER to a human rights defender whose life is in jeopardy. They can IGNITE hope in a forgotten prisoner. Your words can SAVE LIVES. Shared by Audrey Kindred
Chocolate lover? Ditto here at Global Exchange.That's why cocoa is the current focus of our Fair Trade Campaign. It's a tasty way to get Fair Trade-savvy. Plus, chocolate companies have a nasty tendency to use cocoa grown using child and forced labor. Let's end that, with Fair Trade.
Is a form of project based learning in which academic goals are accomplished through community service. Service learning develops citizenship, responsibility, and many other positive character virtues, making it possibly the most powerful character education program you can implement. Here's how you can do it.
RESPECT Austus (derived from the Estonian for "respect") is the LION who is confident that respect is one of the highest qualities one can have - for nature, for others and for oneself. What does it mean to be respectful?
FES (or Future of Ethical Societies) is the national Ethical group for college aged young adults. I wish they had this when I was that age! Check it out!