Students will complete the KWHL chart regarding what they know about disability rights.
Share the video above The Disability Rights Activist Movement with students and have them watch the video on their own device.
Discuss disability rights.
What are disability rights?
What are some examples of disability rights?
What are some laws that might protect these rights??
Instruct students to watch the video one more time to create a mind map for advocacy and disability rights.
Find any compelling moment in the video that emphasizes the quest for disability rights.
Pause the video and take a screen shot of that moment to use as an image for your concept map.
Open a concept map tool (bubbl.us, Miro, Popplet) :
In the center place the phrase advocacy and disability rights.
In the next row of circles, place four to five concepts relating to advocacy and disability rights.
From each circle, write two to three questions you have about that concept or ideas that you would like to explore further.
4. Go through student questions and place the common questions on the board.
5. Ask if there are any questions that can be answered right now. Cross those off the list.
6. Ask how students need to go about answering remaining questions.
7. Look at list of subquestions on opening page and decide which ones must be present for the project. Add to the list of questions.
(Keep the list of questions to revisit as project continues)
Wrap Up:
Introduce the volunteer mentors bios.
Ask them if there is a person they already know that they would like to ask to come. Have them write name and contact information.
Have them write questions they would like to ask their mentors about the topic.
Direct students to the It's About Ability UN Simplified Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
Why did global leaders meet? Why did they believe it was important? What caught your interest the most?