Empowering Global Citizens

Skills and Knowledge

1. Students will describe the rights and responsibilities of children in
different countries.

2. Students will analyze and compare childhood in different countries.

3. Students will begin to learn about child labor and the concept of
educational opportunity.

4. Students will, using Internet—based communication technologies,
exchange presentations on how children spend their time (specifi—
cally, a week) with peers in other countries.

Overview

This unit builds on the students’ analysis of the games children play in dif—
ferent countries and parts of the world and helps students analyze the lives of
children in different cultures. Students observe and record how they spend
their time and compare and contrast those observations with those of their
peers as well as with those of their peers in partner schools around the world.
They learn the concepts of rights and responsibilities and use those as cat-
egories to examine how they and other children spend time. They prepare
presentations that they will share in class and with peers in other countries
using telecommunication technologies. They then study childhood in urban
and rural areas and examine school attendance and the education experience
of students in different countries and regions. This unit also introduces the
concept of child labor around the world.

Activity 2.2.1A Typical Week in Several Countries

Students maintain a record of how they spend their time in a given week.
In class they examine those observations and classify their activities us—
ing various categories (e.g., time alone and time with others; time with
other children and time with adults; time with relatives and time with

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