ICS Inter-Community School Library: G5 STP: Grade 5 Sharing The Planet

Lines of Inquiry

Children encounter opportunities and challenges around the world.
Rights play a role in protecting and promoting equity.
Individuals, groups and societies have responsibilities towards promoting equal opportunities

What is the convention of the Rights of the Child
Seven billion people on this earth and every one of us is different. But how are we all protected?

We look at the rights of children as it's been 30 years since the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was created. World leaders got together and created a set of rules to protect children's rights. But what are they and what else is needed to be done?
What is the UN Convention on Rights of the Child?
Rights of the Child: 30th Anniversary

Voices Of Children Documentary
Children from five diverse countries draw us into their worlds through their many voices.

Rights, Wants and Needs
This resource kit consists of a set of 20 cards
and associated educational activities to teach
and learn about children’s rights

Child Rights Resource Centre
For child friendly resources: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/content-type/child-friendly-materials/

I'm a Global Citizen: Human Rights by Alice Harman; David Broadbent (Illustrator)
How can you be a good global citizen? By understanding the world we live in and how we can effect change. This book explores what human rights are, what happens when they are respected and when they are limited.
Carry On by Rogé Girard (Illustrator)
A moving #OwnVoices poetry collection written by young newcomers to Canada Carry Onbegan in a high school in Outremont, Quebec, where author and poet Simon Boulerice conducted creative-writing workshops for young newcomers to Canada. As the students began writing, their poems gave voice to their reflections on leaving family, friends, and countries of origin to make new homes and connections in their new home, Canada.