More Project Ideas
Many of you completed the "Hidden History: Images in Action" activity and asked if I knew of similar activities. I'll provide links to a few activities that are similar in style or content:
Learn more about kids around the world:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/children.htm
Teenage Refugees:
http://www.itvs.org/beyondthefire/master.html
Child Soldiers:
http://www.un.org/works/Lesson_Plans/WGO/WGO_LP_CS.pdf
Landmines in Cambodia:
http://www.un.org/works/Lesson_Plans/WGO/WGO_LP_LM.pdf
Darfur (student video, "Projections")
http://www.facinghistory.org/video/projections
Responding to Genocide (Podcasts and Blogs) THIS SITE LOOKS EXCELLENT...I plan to spend a lot of time looking at this site.
http://blogs.ushmm.org/index.php/COC2/
Facing History and Ourselves: Be the Change
http://www2.facinghistory.org/Campus/bethechange.nsf/home?OpenForm
I have other links on the blog relating to this activity, here is one:
http://hansengeorge.blogspot.com/2008/05/be-change.html
Project suggestion:
Some of the sites above are lesson plans, others are activities such as videos you can watch, podcasts you can listen to or stories and/or slide shows you can read/view. If no specific instructions are provided in the lesson or activity, you may earn credit by posting comments under this post. In your comment, tell me which site you looked at? What was the topic you explored in the site? Why did you choose this particular site over another? What did you learn from this site? What do you plan to do with the information you learned? (Do you plan to share this information with anyone else? Do you plan to learn more about this topic? What else could you do with this information?)
Learn more about kids around the world:
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/kidsweb/children.htm
Teenage Refugees:
http://www.itvs.org/beyondthefire/master.html
Child Soldiers:
http://www.un.org/works/Lesson_Plans/WGO/WGO_LP_CS.pdf
Landmines in Cambodia:
http://www.un.org/works/Lesson_Plans/WGO/WGO_LP_LM.pdf
Darfur (student video, "Projections")
http://www.facinghistory.org/video/projections
Responding to Genocide (Podcasts and Blogs) THIS SITE LOOKS EXCELLENT...I plan to spend a lot of time looking at this site.
http://blogs.ushmm.org/index.php/COC2/
Facing History and Ourselves: Be the Change
http://www2.facinghistory.org/Campus/bethechange.nsf/home?OpenForm
I have other links on the blog relating to this activity, here is one:
http://hansengeorge.blogspot.com/2008/05/be-change.html
Project suggestion:
Some of the sites above are lesson plans, others are activities such as videos you can watch, podcasts you can listen to or stories and/or slide shows you can read/view. If no specific instructions are provided in the lesson or activity, you may earn credit by posting comments under this post. In your comment, tell me which site you looked at? What was the topic you explored in the site? Why did you choose this particular site over another? What did you learn from this site? What do you plan to do with the information you learned? (Do you plan to share this information with anyone else? Do you plan to learn more about this topic? What else could you do with this information?)
Comments
2.Landmines are set and placed somewhere where someone will step or hit it and then the landmines will destroy anything within a certain reach.
3.Soldiers in the war used landmines against there enemies and the reason I think you shouldnt use them is because it destroys so much.
4.They could of lost family members in an explosion
5.They say that they are going to try to ban landmines from war later on.
2. Landmines are set then placed on the ground or burried, and when people step on them or when vehicles drive over them they explode making them go blind, taking limbs off, or killing them. They were used in Vietnam and other was over seas.
3. Land mines can be nice because you can kill the enemies without having to use physical force, but if they dont go off innocent people mainly kids get killed by them.
4. They are limited on what they can do and where they can go, and they have to live there lives in fear of getting hurt.
5. To try to ban the use of landmines. Its bad and tey kill 40 innocent people every day.
In the lesson, did they mention the effect these land mines have on children? It seems like I remember hearing that Cambodia has more land mines per square foot than anywhere else in the world. Is that true?
1.People are afraid that the children will die or end up believing in nothing but war.
2.Throughout the world 36 different countries including columbia, mexico, Iraq, Iran, and Afganistan use child soldiers.
3.They are easy to control. They are used for clearing landmines and they are human shields.
4.It affects us because the children are the future of the world and if they are being trained to kill thats what our world will be like in the future.
5.That in the future the world might have a lot of wars if it doesn't stop soon.
2. There used in NGOs(non-governmental organizations) including Mexico, turkey, Algeria, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and 30 more countries around the world.
3. They are easy to brain wash into doing things they cant yet understand. They are used to clear landmines and as human sheilds, the girls are used as sex slaves.
4. The society will suffer because all of those kids that survive will grow up thinking about the war and some of them will most likely have shell shock.
5. The international documents are used to help stop the use of children in armed conflict.
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http://www.alongwaygone.com/
After he returned they sent him to the United Nations where he went to rehab and recieved counseling. Later on he went to the U.S. and graduated highschool.
The moral issues is that most are young teens or even younger and do not know what’s right from wrong quite yet and growing up like that does not help in a war effort. Also because of them being just children they don’t have as good as training so there are many just to use and get killed, an unfortunate happening.
Children are used all around the world in armed conflict where there isn’t a governmental infrastructure in place to protect them.
Children became involved in the armed conflict because they are physically and mentally easy to control.
Society suffers because children are being taken away from their families, then the children as well are possibly messed up for the rest of their life because of all of the war and brutality they have been through or even first hand experience of themselves.
The Convention offers a vision of the child as an individual and as a member of a family and community, with rights and responsibilities appropriate to his or her age and stage of development. By recognizing children's rights in this way, the Convention firmly sets the focus on the whole child.
As soon as you get back to me on the Ishmael Beah website, I'll sign off on your project. (Spend some time looking at his website. If you have time, and most likely you do, listen to excerpts from his book, A Long Way Gone.)
What topic are you interested in studying?