As part of their social studies curriculum, Mrs. Lotito’s fifth grade class at Wheeler Avenue School worked on an adventurous project using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
This document was instituted by the United Nations after WWII to prevent human abuses. At the start of the project, the students were placed in groups of three and each team was assigned one of the thirty articles from the UDHR to analyze and discuss. Using their critical thinking and analytical skills along with their writing talents, each team wrote an article in their own words and created artwork to illustrate their selected UDHR article. To better prepare for their project, the students watched videos about the UDHR and expanded their knowledge of vocabulary including new words such as “inalienable” and “fundamental” which are included in the UDHR.
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