Citizenship is Everyone’s Business!
Embedded Values:
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
• 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
Linesof 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
Tracey
Create 5 questions about children’s rights (T&Q)
ICT Opportunities
Blogging
Google searches
Emailing
S Discussion Children’s rights at Nelson Central, Choose focus areas
Movie making Maybe TED talks?
Recall 40 hour famine video
Power point presentations,
Kidspiration Brainstorm: What we already know about Children’s Rights in other parts of the
I movies
Possible Web site
Other Curric Areas
world. What we want to find out. (P&C) A Select an area for research: children’s
right to education, make friends, relax and play, express opinions, good health.
Literacy- Reading, Writing -
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/kroobay/whats_new.php
presenting
Visual Art
(P&C) (L,S&T) U Compare our rights to those of other children in Kroobay,
historically and at present (R to O) C 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) E 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