Lesson 5.3 – The Time Travelling Historian – People & Place

 

 

Suggested Level: Junior and middle secondary

Learning outcome: This activity provides students with an opportunity to discover their local history and consider the human rights implications of every day locations and artefacts.

Materials and resources:

Notebooks, pens, camera or smartphone

Ed Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XNevQHfvjc

Suggested activity

You have just landed back in the present. In a group of at least four, take a video or pictures of a series of museum exhibits or community artefacts that reflect the topics of human rights, historical thinking and understanding.

Provide a narrative about it and post each one on Google Maps and record them as geo-markers in your own virtual museum using Ed Tech. Try to record as many as you can with an accompanying narrative or story that explains its human rights significance and relevance drawing upon the Human Rights principles.

Discuss your collection. Is there a pattern? What are their historical, cultural and humanistic attributes? How do these attributes inform behaviour and attitudes then and now? How does this inform our future history and our perspective on Human Rights?