Q.1 What are my rights?

1. Question: What are my rights?

 Each "Discussion Questions" and "Activities" are optional. Decide with your students what questions to answer,what activities to work on and which final products you will share here.
Usually, the learning process starts with a face-to-face discussion in a classroom or some other meeting place. After the discussion, conclusions and views are shared with peers through the Students personal pages in Kidspace. (Getting Started)

Discussion Questions	Activities (suggestion)
What is a "right?" What rights do you think you have? Do adults have different rights? When does a child become an adult in your country? Do you agree with this age? What is the difference between a right and a privilege? Can we demand rights without assuming responsibilities? When are some rights infringed? How does it feel to have your rights infringed by others? What is one right you want that infringes on someone else's rights? How does it feel when you have to stop doing something you want to do when it is infringing the rights of others?	Make a survey of what rights the students in your classroom think they have. Make an analysis of the result, and discuss possible reasons for differences in opinion.  Make a Venn Diagram on the chalkboard or on a large sheet of paper. In one circle list the rights all children should have and in the other put the rights that adults should have. Which rights are in both circles? Show that in the diagram. Divide the class into groups. Each group draws the outline of a child on a large piece of paper. Name your "new child." What special qualities do you want this person to have when it is grown up? Write those qualities in a circle around the child. Inside the outline of the child write the needs that each child has in order to grow into this adult you have described. Proper food and education in some form will be necessary. What else? Go back to the Convention and see which ones guarantee the needs that your ideal person will need in childhood Groups "introduce" their ideal child to the class and explain the qualities and needs that each listed. Go to the page of "The Convention on the Rights of the Child". Your rights are in the Convention? Some are missing? Which ones? .
Write the answer to the question "What are my rights?". Tell about your likes and dislikes, and the things that make you what you are. Save this answer on your kidspace page in Students'Pages  under Getting Started where you will add the answers to the next three Kidlink questions. See AndrewB as sample
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