Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Hello!

We are studying how the world we live in is and the different institutions and organisations that organise our lives. States need to work together to resolve their common problems, and to do it, they sign treaties, conventions and international rights declarations.

The most notable international rights declaration is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I'm deeply concerned about Human rights and I want to share this concern with you:



To know much more about this Declaration, you are going to work and find out information about it. You have to answer the questions below in your notebook with the help of the links below:

   1. What is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
   http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
   2. Where and when was the Declaration proclaimed?
   http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/history.shtml
   3. What day should the world celebrate Human Rights? Why?
   http://www.un.org/en/events/humanrightsday
   4. Please, write down one of the Human Rights you especially like and tell why.
   http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
   5. Who is Secretary-General of the UN? What’s the role of the Secretary-General of the UN?
   http://www.un.org/sg/index.asp

To finish the project, make a poster about a person who or an organisation that has been important for Human Rights or has worked to get them in different countries all over the world, like artists, singers, sport personalities, NGOs, etc.

The poster should have the following parts, and you will have to show your work in your blog.
   • A short biography of this person or organisation
   • What did he/she/the organisation do related to Human Rights?
   • Some pictures.

You can use glogster to do it: www.glogster.com.

Here you have an example,

Global Climate Change

What is happening with the climate? Every year we hear on TV that there are many disasters due to the weather. Do you think there is a reason for this or is it normal? Some scientists consider that our planet is suffering important changes in the climate and they call it Global Warming.

Here you have some information about this topic: http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html


Now you are going to do several activities to learn more about this topic.

1.- Answer the following questions:

a)    What is the Greenhouse effect?
b)    Why do people add more carbon oxide to the atmosphere?
c)    What are the signs of Climate Change?
d)    What are going to be these effects in the future?
e)    What can we do to reduce the effects of Climate Change?

2.- Project:

1.- Make a list of rules with different actions we can do in our daily life to reduce the effects of Climate Change.
2.- Upload the list of rules to your blog and try to do it in your daily life! 

Hi guys!

This is the Social Science blog!

This blog is for you to know the different projects we are going to do during this year. I will check your blog portfolio with your glossary of the subject.

I hope you enjoy it!

See you!