Citizenship is Everyone’s Kahikatea Syndicate Unit Topic: Rights, Respect
and Responsibilities (Term 1 Weeks 1 – 6, 2009) Curriculum Focus • Health, D3 Rights, responsibilities, and laws; • Social Sciences Understand that people have social, cultural, and economic roles, rights, and responsibilities.
Inquiry into the following: • •
Transdisciplinary theme. Who we are.
Key idea. Our lives are enhanced by actively respecting everyone’s rights and accepting our own responsibilities • Key Competencies Thinking and questioning, (T&Q) Participating and contributing, (P&C) Using language, symbols and text. (L,S&T) • Rich Task Create a presentation that reflects an understanding of Right and Responsibilities from the class charter and show how these are
Embedded Values: Integrity, which involves being honest, responsible, and accountable and acting ethically and to respect themselves, others, Business! and human rights. Lines of Inquiry Resources • Human Rights and Responsibility reflect needs not wants • eLearning – • We all have rights and related responsibilities in all Google, situations in our lives. blogs, • What is the relationship between rights and websites, TED talks responsibilities? • “Inquiry • What rights identified in UNCROC are relevant to our Learning through Provocation Concepts” Why do we come to school? • UNCROC – Child friendly version Thinking, Talking Exploring cards “Inquiry Learning ICT through Concepts” → Rights and Responsibilities. Opportunities (T&Q) • Blogging • Voice Group discussions relating to why do we come to recording school, (P&C), what our Rights are at school, what • Power point our Responsibilities are at school, what this means presentatio for our classroom rules (T&Q) ns, Examine UNCROC articles. Choose those appropriate • Kidspiration to children at school • I movies Use Identified Rights and Responsibilities as basis for
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Class Charter/rules. Powerpoint Presentation identifying rights and responsibilities and related UNCROC article (L,S&T) Self assessment of inquiry questions, Reflect on group skills. CWSN catered for through composition of Inquiry groups, support as required. CWSA catered for through open ended Inquiry process