09-Human+Rights+activity+(primary+education)

=** HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVITY **=

Our school have three courses, we have design a final task that consist in a wall tree that contains ten values to be an appropriate community, these values are in relation with the Human Rights. In order to make this task pupils are divided in two big groups (having 20 pupils per class and about 120 pupils at a total among all the years) so that the distribution is based on working with first, second and third level and fourth, fifth and sixth and subgroups created. These subgroups are formed by two pupils of first grade, two of the second and two of the third one meaning that this subgroup counts on six pupils at a total.

Each pupil contributes to achieve the final task so that the first level is in charge of creating the start point thanks to making hands (tracing their own hand and cutting them). While the first year is making the hands, teacher gives the theme that consists on ten values (one per group) for the second year. Pupils from the second year use a computer to search for the value and bring it definition. Pupils from third year are acting like helpers for the rest of their group.

Once the hand and the definition are already finished, definition is sticked on the hand and pupils from third are in charge of giving their own examples and collect the thoughts of first and second pupils as well. These works will be the leafs of the tree that are put in the final task with fourth, fifth and the sixth year.

For the second activity, the pupils from four, five and six years of primary are going to be organized in ten groups of six pupils, two of them from each group. Each group has a topic about the different values. (Justice, responsibility, freedom, empty, respect, intercultural, dialogue, solidarity, peace and tolerance.) With these values they will have to work cooperatively to build a poem. After that we use these poems for our final task.

For our final task we have chosen the article 29 “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible”. Children will have to realize a big wall tree that it will be in a wall of the school gym. In the trunk of the tree pupils of four, five and six years of primary will put their poems that they have read before. Pupils from first, second and third course of primary will put the hands that they have done previously as the leaves of the tree. They will read the value, his definition and the examples before. To the end of this activity we will listen the Human Rights song that it has a meaning full learning.
 * **About the unit/ Where this unit fits ** ||
 * This unit is joined with all subjects and the main outcome of it is that pupils understand that school is a huge community and everyone is part of it. We focus this theme in the importance of different values that are included in the Human Rights. For this final task, pupils must work in two previous lessons for acquire little by little their knowledge. In this way, both lessons are connected.

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 * **Prior Learning ** || **Language used in the unit ** || **Important Resources ** ||
 * Everything in our lives is under the presence of values because we always live in a society where several cultures can live together and share their ways of living.

We want them to be aware of this reality and how living together in a school (in a class, among partners of several years or the same class, etc) is also a value to be taken in count. || Teacher uses a public language in order to get a private speech in pupils

Pupils work a specific vocabulary about the values, needing verbal and non-verbal language. ||  -Big papers -Hands from first, second and three year. -Poems from fourth, fifth and sixth. -Cardboard for the tree stem and branches. <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Glue to stick the values. || <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Respect other opinions in spite of not having the same point of view. || <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Assume roles within a small group. <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Use these values to apply them in their routines and daily life. <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Reinforce the values through the song. || <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Be deeply conscious ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Expectations ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif;">At the end of this unit all the children must |||||| <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Understand we live in a society.
 * <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif;">At the end of this unit most of the children should |||||| <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Understand the importance of the values in a democratic society
 * <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif;">At the end of this unit some of the children could |||||| <span style="font-family: Latha,sans-serif; font-size: 12.5pt;">-Be able to define the values, giving examples to support it.