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Improving Maternal Health

Health in Latin America

http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/modules/lesson15/lesson15.php?c=plans&s=0

This lesson is from the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.   After completing this lesson, students will be able to summarize the issues regarding violence and reproduction for Latin American women, and compare the treatment for women of different socio-economic situations. The lesson provides excellent primary source documents that can be used at the secondary level to increase the understanding of women and issues related to health.   This lesson can be used in Social Studies 11, Unit 1:   Human Rights or History 11 Unit 5:   Global Issues.

Curriculum Objectives

Social Studies 20, Unit 1:   Human Rights

• Know that human rights are those rights that an individual is entitled to simply because she or he is human.
• Know that a human rights claim by an individual or group imposes a set of responsibilities and obligations which other individuals and groups must honour.
• Know that human rights are more than "demands for rights"; they involve a moral entitlement to the right in question which other people in society collectively have decided they will honour.
• Know that the morality of human rights is based on the humanity and the inherent dignity of the individual.
• Know that human rights are universal and as such apply to all people regardless of nationality, race, religion, political beliefs, age, or gender.

History 20, Unit 5:   Global Issues

• Know that paradigms that surround a particular challenge or issue will affect the responses to that challenge or issue and the choice of strategies adopted to respond to it.
• Know that human rights are those rights that an individual is entitled to simply because he or she is human.

Evaluation Links

Saskatchewan teachers have been provided support resources for student assessment and evaluation from the provincial ministry of education, Saskatchewan Learning. Specifically, teachers have been provided with the document Student Evaluation: a Teacher Handbook, in print format. Chapter 4 on specific student assessment techniques contains a variety of ready-made rubrics, rating scales, checklists, portfolio set-ups and templates that could be adapted to each task developed in your classroom. This resource is available on-line at: http://www.sasked.gov.sk.ca/evergreen/policy/studeval/chap4001.html. The simple templates outlined on this Saskatchewan Learning site, will help you tailor your assessment to match any activity and ensure that your objectives are being met.

Another source of easily adaptable evaluation material is Discovery School located at http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html.  The site has both subject specific evaluation tools and evaluation instruments for process oriented tasks.  You will also find rubric builders, portfolio evaluation instruments, graphic organizer evaluation strategies, etc. all at this site.

Another rubric generator can be found at http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/.  And, for a discussion on the value of using rubrics in the middle grades, teachers may want to go to http://www.middleweb.com/rubricsHG.html.

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