Over 30 years ago, world leaders made a historic commitment to the world’s children by adopting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child – an international agreement on childhood.
Related Topics: Human Rights, Malala Yousafzai, United Nations’ Day
Warm-up
Hello to all the children of the world! – YouTubehttps://youtu.be/YK1pTrihKdgAnimation made for the CLAPS ENGLISH CLASS Virtual Learning Object taking the song “Hello to all the children of the world!”
Lesson Plans
Children’s rights | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBChttps://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/childrens-rightsThe United Nations has declared that 20 November is the International Day of the Child. To help raise awareness of this important issue, this lesson plan is about children’s rights. (yr 5-6)
What are child rights? | LearnEnglish Kids | British Councilhttps://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/video-zone/what-are-child-rightsWhat do children need to live a full and healthy life? – Watch the video on YouTube with slower speed and subtitles
Universal Children’s Rights – English ESL Powerpointshttps://en.islcollective.com/resources/projectables/powerpoints_ppt_pptx/universal_childrens_rights/have-gothas-got/37289This is a power point presentation for Elementary and Pre-intermediate students (yr 6-8)
Do Kids Have Rights? | Wonderopolishttps://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/Do-Kids-Have-RightsExercise your RIGHT to read today’s Wonder of the Day!
Reading
World’s Children’s Prizehttps://worldschildrensprize.org/childrightsThe UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to you and all other children under 18 (yr 7-8)
Fundamental rights for children | BICE | NGO for child protectionhttps://bice.org/en/fundamental-rights/Enforce fundamental rights and promote dignity for all children are BICE missions (yr 8-9)
Viewing
UNICEF Children’s Rights – YouTube (2:00)https://youtu.be/mI2dYmNCJVQThis animated video introduces viewers to children’s rights in simple language. (yr 4-5)
What are children’s rights? – YouTube (2:00)https://youtu.be/HHNfaPuoZHMThis animated video introduces viewers to children’s rights.
What are child rights and why are they important? – YouTube (2:02)https://youtu.be/HCYLdtug8skThis animated video introduces viewers to children’s rights.
Cartoons on Children’s Rights 1 – YouTube (14:35)https://youtu.be/442yLFwrzs8?t=16A collection of animated short films presenting one of the Children’s Rights each
Rights of the Child Segment 1 – What are Childrens Rights – YouTube (5:51)https://youtu.be/COjVj9czgrYSegment 1: What are Children’s Rights? – An introduction to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Segment 2 – The Right to Non Discrimination (8:33)
Segment 3 – The Right to Life Survival and Development (7:26)
Segment 3 – The Right to Life Survival and Development (7:26)
Child Rights – Classroom – BTN (2:59)http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s4126803.htmNearly 25 years ago, many countries around the world signed a very important agreement. Its aim was to guarantee every child in the world would be given certain rights (yr 7-8)
Worksheets
Children’s Rights – English ESL Worksheets for distance learning and physical classroomshttps://en.islcollective.com/english-esl-worksheets/material-type/picture-dictionaries/childrens-rights/120133This is a worksheet where I used the students own answers when talking about Children\
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