Educator Resources
GenHR creates multimedia-based human rights education curricula and resources for educators to freely access and adapt to meet their students' needs.
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Imagine: NextGen Voices Reflect on Peace
The Imagine: NextGen Voices Reflect on Peace curriculum brings youth voices focused on personal human rights stories and narratives into the classroom as an open-source curriculum. This multi-media-based curriculum aims to develop and deepen students’ understanding of the complexities of peace through a robust youth-centered curriculum with an emphasis on personal stories and narratives of post-conflict, transitional justice, and peace.
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Imagine: NextGen Voices Reflect on Peace: Classroom to Classroom
A Pairing of Youth from Conflict and Peaceful Areas, is designed to introduce youth from around the world in different zones of war and peace who would not normally have met or learned about each other. The focus of the program is to bring them together so that they can cultivate relationships with one another, have enriching conversations and ultimately develop creative artistic actions that address conflict, find resolution and build for sustainable peace.
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Water Warriors
Water Warriors is a multimedia-based curriculum that guides students in an exploration of our most valuable resource, WATER, through human rights and Indigenous lenses. The lessons enable students to step into the roles of water warriors (protectors). Students gain an understanding of the vital importance of water as the source and sustenance of life and develop the skill sets needed to investigate water issues in their own communities.
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unMASKing: The Pandemic Curriculum Project
The Pandemic Curriculum Project provides educators with a roadmap to guide students, in a supportive and inclusive way, as they process these difficult and complex issues, explore the local and global impacts of COVID-19, and share their experiences.
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MVP Traveling Exhibit and Classroom Program
MVP is a global human rights program that includes a traveling exhibit in a converted bus that visits your school and a full multimedia-based curriculum for classrooms!
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Lost Rolls America Education
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The Telling History Project
The Telling History Project guides students to understand the effects of profound world events- those that challenge through violence and injustice as well as those that inspire commonality and the pursuit of truth via academic, experiential, and art-based curriculum.
The lesson plans incorporate visual and cultural experiences that expand students’ concept of community and enable them to connect to the greater ‘global village’. Each unit includes a photography exhibit and a classroom video.
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The Telling History Project Sex Trafficking Module
Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, including sexual slavery. This is a very difficult topic for teachers to raise with their students because of the sensitivities and characteristics of the issue. However, it is essential for the topic to be discussed in classrooms, especially because of youths’ vulnerability to being lured into sex trafficking, which is occurring in varying degrees in every country around the world.
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The Refugee Unit
The Refugee Unit covers the current massive global displacement of people. This topic is complex and difficult to bring into classroom learning and discussions. These lesson plans offer a gateway to understanding these topics through stories of youth refugees, photos, and videos; enabling students to make a tangible connection to what it is like to be a refugee. Using a human rights-based approach, the activities, developed by educators, offer ways to better understand the crisis and challenges of cultural narratives and prevailing prejudice and stereotypes against the world’s refugee population.
High School Curriculum
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70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
In celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we are providing a curriculum with resources to bring into classrooms. These lessons include a chance for students to create a list of Rights of The Teenager.
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Lost Rolls America Parent Activities
The Lost Rolls America Parent Activities foster a deep exploration of your family’s past through the very photographs you can access—whether in a photo album, loose in a shoebox, or stored in the cloud. The hands-on, multimedia activities connect your child or loved one to family members (both close and distant) and to their personal family history and culture in a fun, exhilarating, creative fashion.
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Generation Girl
Generation Girl strives to help girls in US-based classrooms deepen their understanding of complex human rights issues and build and launch social activism skills by introducing them to the voices and perspectives of other girls who themselves have suffered challenges and violations of their human rights.
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SYRIA: Cultural Patrimony Under Threat & the Emergency Education Learning Kiosk
The Learning Kiosk was on display at the New Mexico History Museum in the fall of 2017. It guided students to understand the history and current crisis in Syria by enabling them to walk in the footsteps of peers from thousands of years ago to current times. The Learning Kiosk had also focused on the current refugee crisis.
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HEARD! Conversations between Rural and Urban Classrooms
Created to respond to the stark divisions in American society today, HEARD! is a media-based social studies curriculum that supports students in grades 9-12 to deepen their understanding of our most pressing issues and broaden their ability to empathize - to walk in someone else’s shoes - as they approach problems of great complexity and immediacy.
