Activities from HRRC Publications

Foundation Volume: Human Rights Here and Now

Activities:

• Activity 1 - Human Beings/Human Rights
• Activity 2 - A Human Rights Tree
• Activity 3 - Needs and Wants
• Activity 4 - Human Rights Squares - More Human Rights Squares
• Activity 5 - A New Planet
• Activity 6 - Human Rights in the News
• Activity 7 - Mapping Human Rights in Our Community
• Activity 8 - Comparing Rights Documents
• Activity 9 - Human Rights Around the World and at Home
• Activity 10 - Windows and Mirrors
• Activity 11 - Giving Human Rights A Human Face
• Activity 12 - Using the Amnesty Interactive CD-ROM
• Activity 13 - Literature and Human Rights
• Activity 14 - History and Human Rights
• Activity 15 - Science,Technology, the Environment and Human Rights

Taking Action for Human Rights:

• Introduction: Human Rights Education and Community Action
• Ten Tips for Taking Action
• Service Learning for Human Rights: Ideas for Talking
• Examples of Human Rights Service Learning Projects
• Action Activity 1: Creating a Human Rights Community
• Action Activity 2: Stories of Students Who Took Action
• Action Activity 3: Getting to Know the Activists Among Us
• Action Activity 4: Strategizing for Action
• Action Activity 5: The Power of the Pen
• Action Activity 6: The Power of Petitions

Topic Book 1: Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective

• Introduction
• About the Author
• Using Economic and Social Justice
• PART I: ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND CULTURAL RIGHTS FUNDAMENTALS
• What are Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights as Human Rights: Historical Background
• Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Questions and Answers
• PART II: ACTIVITIES
• Imagine a Country
• Economic Justice: The Scramble for Wealth and Power
• Wages, Earning Power, Profit, and Responsibility: International Lessons
• Community Research and Action Plan: Economic and Social Rights
• Hunger USA
• The Elderly Poor
• Taking the Human Rights Temperature of School
• Martin Luther King, Jr.: From Civil Rights to Human Rights
• Activists for Human Rights
• PART III: APPENDICES
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)
• UDHR - Regular English Version
• Abbreviated Version of the UDHR
• International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) Unofficial Summary
• A Human Rights Glossary
• Resource List for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
• Organizations Working for Economic and Social Justice

Topic Book 2: Raising Children With Roots, Rights & Responsibilities: Celebrating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

• Sharing a Vision - Session 1
• Whole Child - Session 2
• Equality - Session 3
• Name and Nationality - Session 4
• Adequate Standard of Living - Session 5
• Special Protections - Session 6
• Consideration and Care - Session 7
• Free Education - Session 8
• Play and Culture - Session 9
• Protection - Session 10
• Expression and Association - Session 11
• Ratification & Review - Session 12

Topic Book 3: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective

• ACTIVITY 1 Words Really Matter: Examining Language at School
• ACTIVITY 2 Are Gay Rights "Special?" What Does the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Say?
• ACTIVITY 3 What if Things Were Different: Charting the Effects of Change
• ACTIVITY 4 Is It a Crime to Be Gay? Debating Tolerance in a New Democracy
• ACTIVITY 5 What Must Be Done to Achieve Equality? Evaluating Different Approaches
• ACTIVITY 6 I Now Pronounce You: Same-Sex Marriage Legislation
• ACTIVITY 7 Youth Dealing with Homophobia: Stories from Real Life
• ACTIVITY 8 Rights Abuses around the World: What Can We Do?
• ACTIVITY 9 Taking the Human Rights Temperature of Your School

Topic Book 4: The Human Rights Education Handbook: Effective Practices for Learning, Action, & Change

METHODS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION:

• METHOD 1: Brainstorming
• METHOD 2: Case Studies
• METHOD 3: Closings
• METHOD 4: Creative Expression
• METHOD 5: Debates and Negotiations
• METHOD 6: Discussion
• METHOD 7: Dramatizations
• METHOD 8: Energizers
• METHOD 9: Films and Videos
• METHOD 10: Field Trips
• METHOD 11: Games
• METHOD 12: Hearings and Tribunals
• METHOD 13: Icebreakers and Introductions
• METHOD 14: Interpretation of Images
• METHOD 15: Interviews
• METHOD 16: Jigsaw Activities
• METHOD 17: Journal Writing
• METHOD 18: Media
• METHOD 19: Mock Trials
• METHOD 20: Open-Ended Stimulus
• METHOD 21: Presentations
• METHOD 22: Research Projects
• METHOD 23: Ranking and Defining Exercises
• METHOD 24: Simulations
• METHOD 25: Storytelling
• METHOD 26: Surveying Opinion and Information Gathering
• METHOD 27: Webbing Activities

  TECHNIQUES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION:

• Carousel/Work Stations
• Contests and Awards
• Fishbowl
• Gallery Walk/Exhibitions/Circus
• Multi-Media Technologies
• Small Group Work

  ACTIVITIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION:

• ACTIVITY 1: ALL OUR RELATIONS: A learning experience
• ACTIVITY 2: Applying for Asylum
• ACTIVITY 3: Actors, Artists, Storytellers, and Poets
• ACTIVITY 4: The Body of Human Rights
• ACTIVITY 5: Born Equal?
• ACTIVITY 6: Calling the Names
• ACTIVITY 7: Closings
• ACTIVITY 8: A Dialogue with Your Lettuce
• ACTIVITY 9: Energizers
• ACTIVITY 10: Human Rights Timeline
• ACTIVITY 11: Icebreakers and Introductions
• ACTIVITY 12: Image Theater
• ACTIVITY 13: The Ladder of Torture
• ACTIVITY 14: Mirroring
• ACTIVITY 15: A New Planet
• ACTIVITY 16: Packing Your Suitcase
• ACTIVITY 17: Perpetrator, Victim, Bystander, healer
• ACTIVITY 18: Taking the Human Rights Temperature of Your School
• ACTIVITY 19: Telling Our Stories
• ACTIVITY 20: The Tool Box
• ACTIVITY 21: The UDHR in Our Community
• ACTIVITY 22: What Does a Child Need?
• ACTIVITY 23: Windows and Mirror

The Beyond September 11 Project

Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Project: Case Studies

Sustainable Economics Curriculum

1 - What is Economics?

• Activity 1-1: Economics, Ecology and Ethics
  Theme: Considering a definition of economics for the 21st century that includes ecology and ethics
• Activity 1-2: A Royal Meeting
  Theme: The divorce between economics and other disciplines such as politics, psychology, and philosophy; the possibility for overcoming this fragmentation

2 - Economic Systems

• Activity 2-1: A Day in the Life
  Theme: Comparative values of subsistence, capitalist, socialist and Buddhist economic systems
• Activity 2-2 The Island Game
  Theme: Value choices and problem solving in the creation of an ideal economy

3 - The Market System and Consumer Culture

• Activity 3-1: Personal Consumer Choices
  Theme: Careful recordings and analysis of students’ own consumer choices
• Activity 3-2: Advertisement Watch
  Theme: The strategies of advertising and its effects
• Activity 3-3: Consumerism and the Consumer Society
  Theme: A society based on consumerism

4 - Products, the Environment and Consumer Choices

• Activity 4-1: The Life Cycle of Newsprint
  Theme: The land labor and capital that goes into making the daily newspaper and its impact on the environment
• Activity 4-2 Using Less Wood
  Theme: Alternative behavior and choices to using large quantities of wood
• Activity 4-3 The Economic Vote Project
  Theme: Researching the life cycle of a popular product and alternatives to it

5 - Businesses Practices and Competition

• Activity 5-1: Corporate Power
  Theme: Understanding highly centralized corporate capitalism
• Activity 5-2: In Search of Greater Profit
  Theme: Free Trade and the Exportation of American jobs

6 - Measuring Economic Success

• Activity 6-1: What Helps the GDP
  Theme: The GDP can benefit from personal and environmental crises and can be hurt by a rise in the quality of life
• Activity 6-2: Gross Production vs. Genuine Progress
  Theme: Other indicators exist and can be created to reflect the overall quality of life
• Activity 6-3: Local Indicators
  Theme: Measurements of local economic health and sustainable cities

7 - The Role of Government

• Activity 7-1: Federal Budget Game
  Theme: The spending priorities of the federal government

• Activity 7-2: Green Plans
  Theme: Governments that are moving towards a sustainable economy

• Activity 7-3: Military Conversion
  Theme: How closing military bases can be redeveloped sustainably

8 - Trade and the Global Economy

• Activity 8-1: The Global Athletic Shoe
  Theme: Where and how Nike shoes are made

• Activity 8-2: Trade Statistics, Imports and the WTO
  Theme: US Trade profile, limits to imports and free trade

• Activity 8-3: Import Substitution
  Theme: Considering limits to the global economy and making the economy more local