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Here you can find a dialogue between two people with different questions related to the human right topic .

Conversation Question on Human Rights critically examine a topic to develop their own higher order questions. Sample objectives include: After completing a question and answer activity, students will: develop attention to detail and critical analysis by formulating higher order questions concerning a given conceptsynthesize information in order to determine missing information or information deserving clarificationas determined by successfully attending to 80% of the requirements. Prerequisites: None other than adequate Web access.Materials and Resources: What needs to be prepared in advance by the teacher? Usually, the questions will center around a topic that the instructor or a guest presents. The topic may be presented through readings or a lecture prepared by the instructor or guest. What does the student need to bring to the lesson? Students need to view any prerequisite materials.

It is a good website to test students' grammar, also could be an extra practices for students. When I tutor students, I use this tools to be a grammar practice. We teach the grammar rules first, but students sometimes are confused the rules. If we give students extra practices, they will figure out the rules and be much more familiar with it.

Family leisure activities and how it contributes to reinforce family ties are the main topics of this document. It gives you a clearer picture of your student´s environment. It describes how divorce, single parenthood, poverty can affect families. It is useful to know yor student background because it is not a matter to teach them English it is, also, how the students can overcome difficulties. You can use the reading to avoid sensitive points in your classes, and to know which activities children prefer to do with their parents. I always tell my students, today you are going to tell your parents what did you learn in English, many, not all, receive possitive words about it and it shows how you can use English to create an activity children can share with their parents. Rosa Sandoval

Students will define the concept of human rights and human rights violations. Students will examine and evaluate the state of human rights in China and the United States.

You can also find activities to do for the earth day. This website gives you a lot of activities for your class: Vocabulary, interactive activities. Teaching our student to care about earth and using English I guess is a good idea.

K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.

I am interested in helping my students develop their critical thinking.

Hi Maria. Larry Ferlazzo is great for generating high quality lists of links. I'd love to hear which of the critical thinking links you end of finding interesting and useful! Thanks! M.

There are many things that are able to be accomplished throughout the development of the new techniques. For example how to keep in touch with our students and to program different activities in a course. All of this encourages students to never stop practicing what is definitely a process. If they feel the communication doesn´t stop, they feel happy and free to produce more and more each time.

Great site to help with students assessment using rubrics.  

Students will learn about rights and how they relate to responsibilities. They will work with computers and They will write a speech for or againt about Human rights

This is a unique resource with english audio and video for esl students and teachers worldwide. This is great website to get information on pronunciation for ESL/EFL students.

In the intro to this blog, over the last few years, I have often heard teachers commenting that they would like to use more technology with their students, but they have to cover the materials in the coursebook. So, I started thinking about ways we could use technology to quickly and simply convert coursebook activities to something more interactive on the web.

Here you can find a very interesting explanation of the utility of twitter in the classroom to encourage students to give their opinions.

My favorite poet to use when teaching students about non-traditional/non-rhyming poetry and my favorite in general. He also spent the last 40 years of his life in Lake Oswego teaching at Lewis & Clark College.

This page provides a lot of activities you can use in the classroom to teach the importance of having a job in this world and the value every occupation has. There you can find occupations described by pictures and small sentences to help students understand in a simple way. Also students mainly children have the opportunity to create different towns and fire trucks buy using boxes and their creativity.

I came across Advocates for Youth in college while working with a sub-group of the Bus Project. It has proven to be an invaluable resource when helping students research current events. They are able to learn about the issues and see what their peers are doing about them.

We have plenty to read in the field of education, however, reading for pleasure has lots of benefits for non-native speakers teachers and students. This is my favorite website to find all sorts of books to read for free!

The site has been designed to engage students in reflecting activities related to Human Rights. There are PDF downloadable files clear explanations on how to develop the lesson. Students understand and reflect on Human Rights by participating, discussing, answering questions, and commenting on the topics given.

Population Diversity and Human Rights Objectives Students will understand the following:1. Nations try to influence the actions of other nations by employing economic sanctions.2. Citizens of a nation may disagree on the morality and effectiveness of economic sanctions.Materials For this lesson, you will need:* Computer with Internet access* Documents, books, articles, and editorials concerning U.S. economic sanctions currently in place against other nations* Index cards for note taking