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This is a page on Amnesty International's website. It is full of lesson plans that explicitly teach human rights. There are two separate sections - one for elementary students and one for middle school/high school students. The elementary lessons involve games and songs. This is a great resource for classroom teachers - lessons would need to be modified for distance learners.

Following an introduction to human rights, students will consider how human rights relate to themselves, their community, country and their world. Here teachers are going to find many activities to apply in the classroom. This page is just aout huma rights, history, campaigns, documentaries, etc.

This site gives a good lesson plan for highshool level students.

This a good educational website about human rights. A variety of topics related to human rights such as discrimination, equality and prejudice and stereotypes are discussed in the lesson plans

In this website, you'll find great ideas to teach human rights, each lesson plan depends on which level you are going to choose. There are other activities; but I strongly recommend you to use those lesson plans.

I looked at this resource and there are many many detailed lessons that get at human rights, such as ways in which all people are alike. How we see ourselves and others, etc. It is a United Nations publication and you are free to use it as you like.

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Film English is the brainchild of teacher, trainer and author Kieran Donaghy ( Kieran's LinkedIn profile). Kieran teaches at UAB Idiomes Barcelona, part of the Univiersitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The site promotes the innovative and creative use of film in English language teaching and learning. All of the lesson plans revolve around the use of video and film to teach English. The site promotes cineliteracy, the ability to analyse moving images, and considers cineliteracy as a 21st century skill which our students need to learn. In addition, the lessons promote critical thinking in the language classroom, and  encourage learners to reflect on values while learning a  language. PrintFilm English has become a very popular resource English Teaching bank and is visited by over 80,000  teachers every month and there are over 2.5 million page views a year. It has received critical acclaim winning various awards, including winner of Best Individual Blog and Runner-up in The Best Use of Video in the 2011 Edublog Awards; the 2011 TEFL.net  Site of the Year; and British Council Teaching English Featured Blog of the Month.

:Lesson plans about microfinance, how to use the concept in your classroom by informing students about global poverty.

This is a nice site where not only you can find some web links about the principal human rights' advocates, but you can find lots of information about human rights' in general or specifically. From lesson plans to presentations and ways to become an advocate. I invite you all to check it out.

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One of the tricks to learning any language is to act it. The spoken word is only one part of all communication. If you have a dog and it comes to you to tell you that it's hungry, or in pain, what language does it use?

We begin this chapter by inventing our own story based on the boxed paragraphs below. Before reading any further, cover all of the boxed paragraphs with a piece of paper. You are going to read these paragraphs, which are extracts from a short story, one at a time. At each stage of the reading ask yourself the following questions as a guide to making links between the separate paragraphs...

This worksheet offers a great (and creative, too) activity for you to try with young learners.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass published what was to be the first of his three autobiographies: the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.

This lesson plan is prepared with an overview of the topic with some questions to guide reading comprehension. I think you can find many ideas for developing your culture and literature classes.

This is the page of our ELT Association website where you can find some examples of lesson plans on teaching tolerance developed on the iBooks Author platform by me and my colleagues. If you are a Mac user, there is a simple instruction how to transfer the file to your iPad. Now you can download and view it on your Mac also (using the iBooks app). Would be grateful for your feedback!

This is a place were English teachers can share games and activities that they have found useful in the classroom. If you know a game or an activity that works well with ESL/EFL students and it is not yet listed here, you can submit in it.