Australian Human Rights Commission
This link takes you to the Australian Human Rights Commission website, where you can access human rights activities for the classroom. These activities are suitable for a wide range of age groups.
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Children's Commissioner for Wales
The Children's Commissioner for Wales website offers a simple, easy online game for young children outlining the Rights of the Child. As children explore a community map they must collect all of their rights by clicking on everyday objects, once they have collected all of the rights in one section they are able to move to the next section of the map. |
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 4.16 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 4.19 Once upon a time
This activity allows children to reflect on stereotypes about gender. A fairytale/story is told, in which the characters' sexes are reversed. Children will notice this as unusual and this should lead to a discussion about stereotypical gender roles and how children agree or disagree with them. Suitable for Years 3-9. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education).
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Compasito 4.28 Silent speaker
In this activity children try to understand what another child is saying by lipreading. Through this exercise students are able to understand some of the difficulties that people with hearing disabilities have. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.29 Take a step forward (Years 6-8)
This activity, which is suitable for Years 6-8, encourages students to think about inequalities. By role-playing the situations of other children, students become aware of the disparities in access to human rights and the subsequent feelings. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.35 What I like and what I do
This activity focuses on gender stereotypes. Students discuss what they like and what they don't like in relation to what people think is 'appropriate' or 'inappropriate' for their gender. They are then able to discuss these stereotypes and relate them to human rights. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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Compasito 4.41 World summer camp
For this activity students choose from a list of fictive children with whom they would like to spend the night with in a small tent. This prioritizing activity leads to a discussion about discrimination and stereotypes. Suitable for Years 4-9. (Part of the Compasito Human Rights Education Handbook).
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