Social Studies 20 Unit One Table of Contents

Unit I Concept Map Human Rights

Core Material for Unit 1

Activity One

To help students understand that, despite how difficult life's problems might appear to be, there are methods and approaches that can be used to find solutions for them, and to give the students an overview of the basic skills/abilities they will be studying this year.

Activity Two

To help the students understand how technology and change create issues within a society that have to be resolved in some way.

Activity Three

The purpose of this activity is to help the students clarify their concept of human rights and to consider what their personal stand on human rights will be.

Activity Four

This activity is intended to help students understand that the social contracts that define and enforce systems of human rights are something that are created and changed by societies as they evolve.

Activity Five

To help students understand that it was difficult to change the human rights paradigm that made slavery acceptable and that the consequences of slavery for many societies were serious. This activity is also intended to help students understand that major social change within society is possible, however difficult it may be.

Activity Six

To help students understand that at certain times in history people are called upon to make difficult choices about which moral vision to accept.

Activity Seven

This activity is intended to help students examine the motivations and the consequences of the behaviour of those who took part in the Holocaust in order to understand better the concept of human rights and human obligations to those rights.

Activity Eight

The purpose of this activity is to help students realize that while a human rights system is necessary to serve as criteria in making decisions about how to treat people, there is also a basic disagreement on what an appropriate human rights paradigm should be.

Activity Nine

This activity is intended to help students understand the levels of discriminatory behaviour in the world at the present time and to think about some possible causes of this kind of behaviour.

Activity Ten

This activity is intended to help students understand the concept of satyagraha (See information sheet 10-2.) so that they can appreciate its meaning.

Activity Eleven

This activity is intended to help students understand the concept of Bolshevism so that they can appreciate its meaning.

Activity Twelve

This activity is intended to give students an opportunity to apply the concepts they have learned so far to current human rights issues.

Activity Thirteen

The purpose of this activity is to give students an opportunity to pull together all the concepts of the unit and evaluate them in a way that is relevant to their lives.

Unit One Templates

Here you will find the templates for some of the Student Work Sheets.