Instructional Plan and Teachers’ Resources
Outline of Instructional Plan for this Resource
The Theme: Globalization has created a world moral code defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that were accepted by members of the United Nations that is now imposed on all nations, leaders, and people.
Introduction
There are many aspects to globalization, which means that we accept close ties with the people around the world. This includes free trade and open competition of workers around the world with those from your own community. This could mean that local factories may close as workers in another country work for a fraction of the wage paid locally and raw resources from other parts of the world may be much cheaper.
In the same way, a resource like oil may increase in value significantly because of international demand and Alberta benefits as the royalty for oil extracted in the province sells for much more.
Another implication of globalization is that all nations of the world increasingly agree on what the basic human rights should be. This can be seen as agreements about what constitutes a moral code that we will all live by. If there are violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights most nations in the world agree that those who are responsible must be held accountable and face trial in an international court.
The Resources
The West Balkans Edukit provides many unique and focused resources and content that will effectively guide the student through a study on the history of the people of the West Balkans, the creation of the Yugoslavia and the period of conflict that brought about the republics in the region.
Students will have the opportunity to survey the history of the West Balkans up to the present by reading the content in the Edukit. Issues dealing with the human rights abuses during the war years are explored in the text. The students will find what they need to complete most of the activities with some additional information they can find on the Internet.
Curriculum Placement
The activities have be designed to address the “Values and Attitudes,” “Knowledge and Understanding,” as well as the “Skills” elements in the Grade 10 Social Studies curriculum. The issues addressed are the role of human rights in the global community.
The curriculum placement of the content and the activities are described in the document that you can download from the Teacher’s Zone. The curriculum fits for the content and the activities, is only fulfilled when all of the content and activities have been used.
Included Resources
When the students have reviewed the online content about the West Balkans other resources have been provided in the Teacher’s Zone. These resources include:
Sources for History of West Balkans (List of Internet sites)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Organizations Dedicated to the Protection of Human Rights
- RESOLUTION 994 (1993)
- RESOLUTION 1011 (1993)
These resources can be downloaded and shared with the students. As the students complete their assignments they may want to use a number of photographs. There is a photograph gallery provided in the Edukit. These pictures can be used as they have been cleared for copyright in educational activities.
Communications Technologies
There are ten activities for you to download in the Teacher’s Zone of this Edukit. These activities have been designed to provide the student with several different ways to present their findings. These presentations include the creation of a website, blog (type of web page), booklet, display panels, power point, newsletter, and posters, but none of these activities demand that the student have the technical ability to produce an online webpage, blog, or Power Point presentation as they do these activities as posters or pages. These activities address the technological skills in Communications Technologies as described in the Grade 10 curriculum for Alberta as they must be aware of the technology, work online and find the information they need from the Internet.
If some students know how to create a webpage of blog and want to do so in some of these assignment they may, but for those who do not have the technical abilities already the assignments ask the students to layout web pages as they would create them online, but to present the assignment on paper or as posters.
There are a series of URLs provided in the various assignments for students to visit various websites to research topics. Added to the directions to exact websites there is also a section in these assignments that instructs the students to carryout web quests using a search engine like www.google.ca. These instructions include how to effectively use the search engines to get the results the students want.
Activity 1 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 2 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 3 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 4 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 5 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 6 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 7 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 8 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 9 (Adobe PDF format)
Activity 10 (Adobe PDF format)
Instructional Plans (Adobe PDF format)
Learning Outcomes (Adobe PDF format)
Resolution 994 (Adobe PDF format)
Resolution 1011 (Adobe PDF format)
Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (Adobe PDF format)
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