A social studies toolkit for human rights learning (secondary)

This resource has been developed to help equip teachers - particularly those teaching levels 4-6 social studies of the New Zealand Curriculum - with some key tools to develop the human rights learning essential to effective citizenship in the 21st century.

Presentations

Freedom for all: The Human Rights Story

Key articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human Rights in Education

Human Rights and the Social Sciences

Class Room Activities

1. Between you and me

2. Developing a class agreement

3. Human Rights Advocates

4. Where do you stand?

5. What if...

6. Who's not in our school?

7. When is old enough?

8. Play the game

9. Online participation

10. Taking the human rights temperature of your school

Resource Sheets

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (short)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (long)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (short)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (long)

New Zealand's role in the development of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Human rights in brief

Human rights in the social sciences

Social inquiry templates

Social inquiry overview: Development of human rights

Social inquiry overview: Parihaka

Human rights cards