Educational Activity Plan
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TOPIC: |
Child labour – Understanding human rights – children´s rights through Mathematics, Geography and Ethics |
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CLASS / DURATION / PREPARED BY: |
Grades 8–9/ 1 lesson /Prepared by: Ivana Kubíková |
Learning Task
Students will become familiar with the concepts of child labor, children’s rights, and countries where these rights are violated. Students will work with percentages, ratios, tables, and graphs. They will learn to interpret real-world data and connect mathematics with global issues.
Goals
General Competences
- Learning to learn: Students plan their work and use information sources responsibly.
- Cognitive: They select and apply research method (data collection, observation, evaluation). Interpreting and synthesizing information. Evaluating global problems using evidence
- Social: collaborating respectfully.
- Personal: reflecting on fairness, empathy, and responsibility.
Subject Competences
Mathematics:
- Working with percentages and ratios
- Constructing and interpreting graphs
- Comparing and analyzing numerical data
- Linking mathematical data with real-world scenarios
Geography:
- Locating areas with child labor on a world map
- Identifying global regions
- Understanding connections between poverty, geography, and child labor
Ethics:
- Understanding basic principles of children’s rights
- Recognizing injustice and inequality
- Formulating ethical arguments
Materials / Equipment
- World maps
- Students receive a worksheet containing simplified global statistics (percentage of children involved in child labor in various regions)
- Reflection sheets
Learning Activities
- Introduction (5 min)
Explain in simple terms:
- What is child labor?
- How does it differ from acceptable work (e.g., chores)?
- Why is it a violation of children’s rights?
- Presentation of Data (5 min)
Distribute worksheets or display data on the board.
- Group Mathematical Task (15 min)
Students compute values, draw a graph, and analyze the data.
- Interdisciplinary Discussion (10 min)
- Ethics: Why is child labor morally unacceptable?
- Civics: What organizations protect children’s rights (e.g., UNICEF)?
- Geography: Why are some regions more affected (economy, climate, conflicts)?
- Closing Reflection (5 min)
Reflection & Assessment
Students answer:
What did I learn today? What surprised me the most?
Appendix 1
Worksheet Child labour around the world
Worksheet – Child Labor Around the World
Task 1 – Working with Data
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Region |
% of children in child labor |
Child population |
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Sub-Saharan Africa |
25% |
580 million |
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South Asia |
12% |
1.1 billion |
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Latin America |
6% |
150 million |
Calculate how many children work in each region (in millions):
Sub-Saharan Africa: 25% of 580 million = __________
South Asia: 12% of 1.1 billion = __________
Latin America: 6% of 150 million = __________
Task 2 – Graph
Create a bar graph comparing child labor rates in the three regions.
Task 3 – Comparison Questions
- Which region has the highest percentage of child labor? __________
- Which region has the highest number of working children? __________
- Why do you think these differences exist? __________________________________
Task 4 – Ethics & Reflection
Why is child labor a problem? __________________________________
What could help improve the situation? __________________________________
Assessment Criteria (9 points)
- Participation & safe working – 1 point
- Mathematis task completion – 3 points
- Geography task completion – 3 points
- Ethics task completion – 2 points