Team: Supersonics - Champions Of Justice

Welcome my Dashing Defenders! Your team (of about 6-8 students) will

design an art work about the plight of children, AND
create a puppet play, song, commercial or pantomime about

one Right of the Child (Number 7 - Bullying in Schools). You will then use the information you have gathered to share ideas with members from the other class teams.

First of all, your team must have one of the following roles:

Writer - your job is to create the script for the puppet play; or, the theme for the song; or the words for the commercial or pantomime.

Designer - your job is to create the backdrop for the puppet play; or, commercial or pantomime. If your group decides to create a song, you need to design the CD cover for it.

Performers - your job is to covert the script into a creative piece of work!

Ideas Contributor/Director – you need to be creative and think of ideas and direct the performance.

Process:

Compare your ideas of what the Rights of the Child mean with those of the other members of your group.

Then you must go to the The United Nations' Rights of the Child page and
investigate Number 7. Read it as a group, discuss what it means
and rewrite it in your own words (you will need to have a
dictionary handy or use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia).

Use the internet resources below to identify examples of where your "Right of the Child" are being violated and add these to your performance. These resources are written for adults and may be challenging to read so use the online dictionary and encyclopaedia.

Uncover how and why your Rights of the Child was violated and who are/were the victims:

Resources

Educate every child - overview of education in the world

bullying.gif (5181 bytes) Specific Issue: Bullying in Schools:

Bullying in Schools and what to do about it - Dr. Ken Rigby

No Bully - New Zealand

Bully B'ware - Canada, More information on Bullying (a commercial site but has some great information)

Committee for Children: Bullying

Find an example of where your right of the child is being protected or people are doing something positive about this Right.

Do you have an Anti-bullying policy at your school? Investigate what it states and find out if it is working. What can you do to help?

If you don't have an Anti-bullying policy at your school, find out why.

Uncover where and how it is happening.

Return to Plan of Attack to continue your mission.

"We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
We discovered that life at any price has no value whatever;
that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides,
the rights, the joys which make it worth living, and also
worth giving. And we also discovered that there is
something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than
death; and that is to live in fear."

Eve Curie, French author, speaking to the American Booksellers Association, New York, 9 April 1940