Children's+rights+at+new+heights!


 *  Date || Action || Teacher Comments ||
 * //15/09/08// || * Created wiki page
 * Chose name for our group
 * Added you tube clip || This video is great, it illustrates the rights that children are entitled to and introduces your issue. It would be a good idea now to find information or situations where children are being denied human rights. Perhaps you could start by going through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and highlighting or underlining those that apply to children. I look forward to seeing your progress in this Inquiry girls! ||
 * //16/09/08// || * Explained you tube clip
 * made headings more obvious
 * Made glossary for technical language || A superb effort today, girls! You have built up a knowledge base about your issue and have written your information in your own words. All sources have been clearly acknowledged and you are thinking critically about what information really relates to your issue. It might help to make the titles for each stand out a bit more, but this can easily be done later, after you are satisfied with the content. It may be a good idea for you to set up a glossary page and add to it as you progress through each stage. As this is a broad issue, you will need to think about your new learning points that you listed and decide on what aspect of Children's Rights you would like to investigate further, as this will influence the types of questions you write and the action you decide to take to address the issue. Keep up the great collaborative work, girls! ||
 * //17/09/08// || * Recovered lost work ||  ||
 * //18/09/08// || * Began essential questioning
 * Set up own wikispace ||  ||

**Stage one: Big concept-**
Human Rights, do they guarantee equality?

**Stage Two: Knowledge Saturation-**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FmRZjh7wRc media type="youtube" key="2FmRZjh7wRc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xcc2550&color2=0xe87a9f&border=1" height="349" width="425" WHAT IS THIS VIDEO REALLY ABOUT AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO US? This video clearly states the rights that children can be denied all the time such as; choosing your adotpers, the right to privacy, protection and much more. It clearly illustrates theses rights with some great pictures. This has enhanced our knowledge, because we did not know children had a say to whether they be adopted by a certain family and some other rights that all children should have. It is a very thoughtful and well presented video and we hope to make one just as meaningful when the time comes (in other words, our next inquiry lesson)

INFORMATION ABOUT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: We have come across a website promoting people to sponsor and take notice of street children's rights in Central America. http://www.casa-alianza.org.uk/northsouth/CasaWeb.nsf/Street-Children/Street_Children_Campaigns?OpenDocument is a sponsored website updating people on the different Human Rights cases happening around central america, including the deaths of children and the capture of the assailants, usually officials. They include a thanks for the letters that have been sent in by the public that contributed toward the capture of the killers of 14 year old Erlin Rodriguez. The website states that every month the websites front-line programme reports the murder of around 80 - 100 children and young people in Guatemala and Honduras. As well as working to rehabilitate street children, Casa Alianza (the sponsored association) is actively involved in the defence of children's human rights.

Research from book; CHILDREN'S RIGHTS. Voice, By Nicola Edwards
 * Currently, around 110 million of the world's Children are being disputed their right to go to primary school, years 1-6, which is ages 5-11.
 * Over half of these children are female, which as well as shows the denial of children's rights, it also shows the denial of the right of gender equality. *page 20*
 * More than 200 million children under the age of 14 work in conditions that put their health and safety at risk. *page 24*

BULLETED POINTS OF ALL WE HAVE LEARNED TODAY:
 * Around 80 to 100 children and young people in Gutemala Honduras are reported dead every month by the front line programme of Casa Alianza, a sponsored Children Right's awareness programme.
 * Around 110 million of the worlds children are not given the right to go to primary school
 * More than 200 hundred million children are put to the work under the age of 14, in poor conditions 600 million of the worlds children are in extreme poverty. Which means that they are living on less than 66p a day (around one dollar forty)
 * These children may be trying to live without basic necessities such as substantial nourishment and safe living areas.
 * In the world today, 20 million children have been forced out of their homes because of war.
 * Children have a right to be involved in decisions that affect their lives Children and adults need to be told about children's rights.

**Stage Three: Essential Questions-**
Closed/Knowledge questions: Open/Comprehension questions: Fertile/Synthesis questions:
 * What rights from the universal declaration of Human Rights apply to children?
 * What countries do not apply the rights that all children deserve?

**SO WHAT?!**
 =GLOSSARY! = 