The ideal resource for any course on human rights, this handbook offers a history of human rights in the twentieth century, biographical sketches of human rights heroes, and an annotated listing of human rights organizations, books, periodicals, and films, as well as electronic information sources such as computer networks and databases. Curriculum Brown, Margot. Amnesty International, UK 1996. This curriculum offers innovative strategies and activities for teaching about the UDHR in upper elementary school. Although written for British schools, all of the activities are easily adapted to a US context.
Activities address human rights in the family, the classroom, the school, and the wider community.
Handsome illustrations and useful support information. Lessons on Equal Worth and Dignity . The United Nations Association of Minnesota, 1992. This middle school curriculum offers the United Nation's work as a model for students to create a more tolerant world. The lessons contained in this curriculum provide opportunities for students to develop knowledge of international relations, highlight student awareness of intolerant behavior, and help students to develop tolerance skills.