Lesson 1: Rights of the child
Exploring how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child applies to children's lives and choices they can make.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Before starting this unit, you may want to check that children can recall:
What being fair means and how this might look.
Why we have rules and laws.
What democracy is.
What a community is.
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