Unit Title: Human Rights
Course Title: 7th Social Studies
Pacing: 8 Days
Content Standards
C.1-Understand how cultural values influence relationships between individuals, groups and political entities in modern societies and regions.
- C.1.1 - Explain how culture unites and divides modern societies and regions (e.g. enslavement of various peoples, caste system, religious conflict and Social Darwinism).
- E.1.2 - Explain the implications of economic decisions in national and international affairs (e.g. OPEC, NAFTA, G20, WTO,EU and economic alliances).
- G.1.2 - Explain how demographic trends (e.g. population growth and decline, push/pull factors and urbanization) lead to conflict, negotiation, and compromise in modern societies and regions.
- H.2.1- Analyze the effects of social, economic, military and political conflict among nations, regions, and groups (e.g. war, genocide, imperialism and colonization).
Understandings
Students will understand that…
- Human Rights are based on the beliefs and values of a society.
- Cultural beliefs and values alienates women, children, religious minorities and refugees in modern societies.
- Policies of economic organizations directly impacts labor rights in societies in positive and negative ways.
- Population growth, push, pull factors and cultural beliefs and values leads to conflict and compromise in modern societies.
- Refugees and genocide are major effects of social, political economic and military conflicts among nations.
Essential Questions
- How do human rights factors influence conflict and compromise among societies and groups?
Knowledge
Students will know…
Individuals and Key Terms: refugees, genocide, immigrate and emigrate, asylum. OPEC, NAFTA, G20, WTO.
Political, economic and religious conflicts causes individuals to leave their country and become refugees.
Migration of refugees causes economic, political and social effects on receiving nations.
Genocide in various groups are as a result of economic, political and cultural conflicts within nations.
Lasting effects of decolonization united and divided groups causing conflicts which included genocide.
A desire for economic growth have led to the development of companies with poor labor practices in various nations.
Population growth, poor economy and lack of government labor laws cause companies to implement poor labor practices in various nations
Cultural beliefs and economic desires leads to nations exploiting women and children.
High mortality rates, child soldiers and lack of education results from the exploitation of women and children.
Skills
Students will be able to…
Identify (to establish, to determine)
- the political, economic and religious conflicts that cause individuals to leave their country and become refugees.
- the political, economic and religious conflicts that cause individuals to leave their country and become refugees.
- the various internal factors that lead to nations implementing poor labor practices.
- the desire for economic growth on companies implementation of poor labor practice.
- the results of exploitation of women and children.
- the causes of genocide.
- the economic desires and cultural beliefs that cause exploitation of women and children.
- the economic, political and social effects of the migration of refugees on receiving nations.
- the lasting effects of decolonization to various examples of genocide.