Childrens Rights Plan (1)

Citizenship is Everyone’s Business! Kahikatea Syndicate Unit Topic: Children’s Rights

Term 2 Weeks 9 – Term 3 Week 4 , 2009

Curriculum Focus:

Health & PE: D3 Rights, responsibilities, and

laws; D4 People and the environment • Contribute to and use simple guidelines and practices that promote physically and socially healthy classrooms, schools, and local environments.

Inquiry into the following: • Transdisciplinary theme. Children’s Rights • Key idea. We can apply our knowledge of children’s rights to NCS • Key Competencies

Thinking and questioning, (T&Q) Participating and contributing, (P&C) Using language, symbols and text. (L,S&T) Relating to others (R to O) Managing self (MS) • Rich Task

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Compare how children’s rights are observed at Nelson Central School with those of other children school in a different place in the world. Show how we can build on the current situation

Embedded Values: Lines • • •

of Inquiry How are children’s rights recognised at Nelson Central School? Not all children have equal rights Resources How does our observation of rights at NCS compare with UNCROC children’s rights in other school environments? http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay/whats_new.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/index.shtml Provocation: Thinkers Keys; Questioning Key http://www.unicef.org.uk/tz/rights/index.asp Create 5 questions about children’s rights (T&Q) Tracey ICT Opportunities Blogging Google searches Emailing Movie making

Power point presentations, Kidspiration I movies Possible Web site Other Curric Areas Literacy- Reading, Writing presenting Visual Art

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Discussion Children’s rights at Nelson Central, Choose focus areas

Maybe TED talks? Recall 40 hour famine video Brainstorm: What we already know about Children’s Rights in other parts of the world. What we want to find out. (P&C)

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Select an area for research: children’s

right to education, make friends, relax and play, express opinions, good health.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay/whats_new.php (P&C) (L,S&T)

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Compare our rights to those of other children in Kroobay,

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historically and at present (R to O)

Create power point for Children’s Rights

Blog, school website showing how Central School helps children to have a right to education, make friends, relax and play, express opinions, good health. E.g http://www.highwire.org.uk/showcase/sc_04_05/index2.html

Vocabulary

(MS) (L,S&T)

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Self assessment on co-operative tasks (MS)

Teacher assessment on effective questions CWSN catered for through composition of Inquiry groups, support as required. CWSA catered for through open ended Inquiry process