Team: Titans - Champions Of Justice

Welcome my Colossal Companions! 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 4 - Poverty). 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 4. 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:

poverty.jpg (12666 bytes) Resources

Poverty Fact Sheet

Angola: No Place for a Child

UNICEF Report: Half of Solo Mothers in poverty in Canada, Australia and US

Parliament of Australia: Parliamentary Library: The Poor in Australia: Who Are They and How Many Are There?

Poverty in Australia - List of extensive resources

Poverty in Australia - Salvation Army

Activities

Poverty Curriculum
This curriculum unit is part of the SyberSchoolBus website - a United
Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project. There are seven units
including the introduction and conclusion, covering food, health, housing,
education, work and economic security. Each unit contains an explanation, a class activity, a community service activity and a link to related Internet sites. Source: Educational Network Australia, EdNA

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

Resources

Almost a Miracle: Gopi

Make Poverty History

Anti-Poverty Week

Uncover where and how it is happening.

Return to Plan of Attack to continue your mission.

"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When
I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a
Communist."

Dom Helder Camara, Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop,
author, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee