Growing minds, growing rights: agree or disagree?

Topic
- Society
- Citizenship & human rights
Learning skills
- Self-awareness
- Problem solving & decision making
- Critical & reflective thinking
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
Materials
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
5 - 15 minutes
+5 players
Easy
Medium
Medium (classroom, square)

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Poster 'Growing minds, growing rights' EN Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-code-kopieren.jpg (39.5mb)
Poster 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' De Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-de-small.png (26.6mb)
Poster 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' EL Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-el-small.png (26.6mb)
Poster 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' ES Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-es-small.png (26.6mb)
Poster 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' FR Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-fr-small.png (26.6mb)
Poster 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' NL Download development-growing-minds-growing-rights-nl-small.png (26.6mb)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Gather a group of children in a room/space.

Explain to the children that they are "Disagree" on one side of the room and "Agree" on the other.

Explain to the participants that you are going to speak a statement (based on the poster ‘Right to Development’) out loud. They will have to decide where they stand according to their opinion of the statement: either they agree (one side of the room) or they disagree (other side of the room). Check the additional game information for some example statements.

Read out each statement one by one and after each statement give the participants some time to choose where they want to stand. Encourage them to tell why they stand where they do or ask them specifically.

Focus on the duty-bearers involved in these situations:

Which duty-bearers have a responsibility in these situations?
To whom can they turn if specific situations/rights are violated?
...

Extra game information

Example statements

The teacher knows the name of every student out of my classroom by heart.
I can go to school every day.
We have time to leisure and play.
At school, we have the possibility to read books of our own choice.
At school, we can go to a trust person if needed (for example when we have questions, when someone is bullied …).
For me it’s easy to get to school (by for example public transport or bike).
…

The 'Growing Minds, Growing Rights' poster is the overview poster for the right to development. This poster depicts a school environment where all different rights related to development can be found. This poster is one of the four storytelling posters linked to one of the dimensions of children's rights: survival, protection, development and participation. The storytelling poster is closely linked to the 'Different Abilities, Equal Rights' panel.

This game has been specially created to work on the topic of duty-bearers with children and youngsters.

All children's rights icons used on the posters are created by UNICEF for their child-friendly version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Variations

(1) Offer the children more options to express their feeling and let them stand along an invisible line (instead of the two sides of the room) according to their view on the statement: from strongly agree to strongly disagree.

(2) Play the same game with the duty-bearers you are working with. Adapt the example statements to their point of view or include other statements. For example: We give children the time to leisure and play. This game can offer an opportunity to reflect on their answers or even to think about how children would react to these statements and why.

(3) Broaden the game to all children’s rights by changing the statements discussed or include statements that deal with different rights/dimensions.

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