Compasito 4.09 Capture the Castle
This activity adaptable for students in Years 4-8 is an active adventure game. Students learn to co-operate with one another, exploring themes of peace, human security and conflict resolution. Emotions of conflict are addressed and strategic thinking employed. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.11 Cookie Monster
An activity suitable for children in Years 4-8 involving negotiation and discussions. Students negotiate the sharing of eatable snacks amongst each other leading to discussions on issues of equal rights and poverty (part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.12 Dear Diary
An activity involving story telling and discussion, adaptable for students in Years 4-9. Children read three different accounts of the same experience and discuss mistaken judgments about people. The activity aims to enhance empathy and understanding of the subjectivity of individual experience for children - and incorporates broader themes of health and welfare, poverty and social exclusion (part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.13 Every vote counts
An activity suitable for students Years 7-9. Introduces children to democracy and aims to show the possibilities of citizen participation. Through simulating fair elections students become aware of the right of each person to participate in his/her government, either through holding office or electing representatives (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.15 Human rights in the news
This activity (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook) aims to enhance awareness of human rights in the media and everyday life. Students scan media and observe how they cover human rights issues.
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Compasito 4.16 Modern Fairytale
This activity introduces children to the life of Siwa, a child who has been traded into slavery. Speaking about child labour and modern-day slavery allows students to reflect on the rights of children, discrimination and other cases of violence against children. Suitable for students Year 4-9. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.17 Most important for whom?
This activity encourages children to decide on which right of the Convention of the Rights of the Child is the most important to them and which are less important. After deciding and explaining their decision, they should reflect how it would be if they were to really lose one of the rights and how their life would be affected. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.23 Putting rights on the Map
This activity which is part of the Compasito Human Rights Education handbook invites the students to draw a map of their community. They are then asked to analyse it from a human rights perspective, linking venues with rights like freedom of religion, right to education. By doing this students are able to link their environment to human rights and to evaluate the human rights climate in their community.
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Compasito 4.24 Rabbit's rights
This activity aims to show children that they are instinctively aware of children's rights. By looking at the rights of a pet rabbit they are able to draw similarities between what is needed to be happy and which rights need to be met to create this happiness. (Part of the Comapsito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.27 Sailing to a new Land
In this activity students imagine that they are sailing to a new world. In their luggage they have both wants and needs cards. Over the course of their journey they must throw away non-essential cards for their new life. This allows children to establish an understanding about the difference between wants and needs. Suitable for Years 4-9. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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