Want More?
Several resources are provided throughout, and they include multiple activities. Here are a few more resources we recommend:
● Activity Book on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children’s
Alliance of England (2006). Students can learn about their rights through word
searches, drawing and mazes.
● Children’s Rights Activities. Children’s Alliance of England. Useful group activities
here, especially for icebreakers and for grade 3, 4 and 5 students.
- Voices of Future Generations Children’s Books Series. A list of books and videos written by children. It includes teaching guides.
These short videos are excellent and could be shown as part of programming or during lunch 🙂
● What are Children’s Rights? – Australian High Commission, 2019 – Short video
about child rights as superhero powers
● Rights with Ruby and Jack – UNICEF Australia, 2013 – Short video with two
siblings, including a short clip about Indigenous beliefs
● Hello Children, Learn about Child Rights – UNICEF Malaysia, 2014 – This video
seems like it would be for much younger children, but it talks about bullying
including through social media.
● Rights of the Child: What are Children’s Rights? – Global Education & Skills
Forum Alliances, 2018. This is a slightly longer video that provides a great
overview of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the history of how
it was developed and how it works.
We leave you with these words:
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination.
Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world (Eleanor Roosevelt quotation Chair of the UN Human Rights Commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 – the foundation for starting children’s rights).
Thank you for celebrating child rights in your classroom!