Youth for Human Rights International

 The tool I chose and why? 

    The tool I chose is Youth for Human Rights International. I chose this tool because human rights are so important yet half the time we don't even realize what privileges we have. Freedom of speech is one big one, it's probably one of the most important especially in this day and age. Everyday you wake up, guaranteed one of the first things you do is go on your phone. What do you do on the phone?.. Checking social media, videos, posts, etc. Those are all examples of yourself and the rest of the world using freedom of speech. Human rights consume our everyday lives and it's important to be knowledgeable and aware of what, as human beings, have a right to. 

What I found useful 

    Going through the tool, I found some useful aspects of it to note. The tool goes on to share what human rights are including educator kits and videos along with a full curriculum with activities to help engage children with knowing human rights. The videos, I personally, enjoy the most. The videos I find create more of an emotional response to really keep children and even myself engaged with these global rights. 

How I would use it in my classroom 

   As said previously, I really found the videos most helpful to use. In the tool, it even gives separate videos on each human right. If I ever talked about human rights with a classroom of my own, I would prepare classroom discussions following the video and ask for each child's' perspective on why they think human rights are so important to have. To continue, there's a full online curriculum to use to expand human rights knowledge in the classroom. I would use this to engage students on the issues at hand and even give them a chance to out human rights principles into action and share how they feel about the individual human right and what they feel, society as whole, can do to keep this human right into place.