Leave the world better than you found it, take no more than you need, and try not to harm life of the environment.
Social Justice focus:
Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
My responsibility, my links to the world
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Ensuring Environmental Sustainability
My responsibility, my links to the world
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Social Justice Mission #1
Purpose: We will reduce pollution and reuse old materials.
Our Goal: Instead of using plastic bags, we are going to use snack bags that we created from old chip bags.
When: October 18th
Our Goal: Instead of using plastic bags, we are going to use snack bags that we created from old chip bags.
When: October 18th
Social Justice Mission #2
Purpose: We will reduce pollution and reuse materials.
Our Goal: We will reuse an old cereal box to create our own notebook.
When: November 15th
Our Goal: We will reuse an old cereal box to create our own notebook.
When: November 15th
Social Justice Mission #3
Purpose: We will reduce pollution and reuse materials.
Our Goal: We will reuse an old glass bottle and toys to create a snow globe.
When: December 16th
Our Goal: We will reuse an old glass bottle and toys to create a snow globe.
When: December 16th
What does it mean to be Green?
Being Green means doing your part to care for the planet. You can accomplish this by changing your everyday habits to taking action on a larger scale. Every little thing you do counts, so make your commitment to being Green today.
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Check out the links below to learn more about being green.
Kids Recycle Page
Recycling Kids
Environmental Education for Kids
The Imagination Factory
Recycle Roundup
Recycling for Kids
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Environmental Kids Club
Just for Kids
Kids Recycling Zone
Container Recycling Institute
Recycle Works
Recycle
Recycling Kids
Environmental Education for Kids
The Imagination Factory
Recycle Roundup
Recycling for Kids
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Environmental Kids Club
Just for Kids
Kids Recycling Zone
Container Recycling Institute
Recycle Works
Recycle
* * Click here to find out how we can save the planet during lunchtime. * *
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Millennium Development Goals
In 2000, world leaders gathered at the Millennium Summit to discuss the state of society. They envisioned a global community with more peace and prosperity for everyone. Leaders of 189 countries set eight goals:
1. To reduce poverty and hunger
2. To give every child a basic education
3. To provide equal treatment for girls and women
4. To improve the health of children
5. To improve the health of mothers
6. To fight deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS
7. To protect the environment
8. To cooperate to help developing countries
Government leaders set 2015 as a deadline for achieving these goals.
1. To reduce poverty and hunger
2. To give every child a basic education
3. To provide equal treatment for girls and women
4. To improve the health of children
5. To improve the health of mothers
6. To fight deadly diseases such as HIV/AIDS
7. To protect the environment
8. To cooperate to help developing countries
Government leaders set 2015 as a deadline for achieving these goals.
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Knowledge! Action! Justice!Free the Children
Youth for Human Rights UNICEF - Voices of Youth Peace Corps United Nations Foundation Human Rights 6 Billion Others Click here to see a video about Social Justice that 2nd graders created
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1. When children are born, they are free and each should be treated in the same way.
They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly
manner.
2. Everyone can claim the following rights, despite: a different sex, a different skin color,
speaking a different language, thinking different things, believing in another religion,
owning more or less, being born in another social group, coming from another country.
It also makes no difference whether the country you live in is independent or not.
3. You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
4. Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you should not make anyone
your slave.
5. Nobody has the right to torture you.
6. You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere, and like everyone else.
7. The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all.
8. You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not
respected.
9. Nobody has the right to put you in prison, to keep you there, or to send you away from
your country unjustly, or without good reason.
10. If you go on trial this should be done in public.
The people who try you should not let themselves be influenced by others.
11. You should be considered innocent until it can be proved that you are guilty.
If you are accused of a crime, you should always have the right to defend yourself.
Nobody has the right to condemn you and punish you for something you have not
done.
12. You have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm your good name,
enter your house, open your letters, or bother you or your family without a good
reason.
13. You have the right to come and go as you wish within your country.
You have the right to leave your country to go to another one; and you should be able
to return to your country if you want.
14. If someone hurts you, you have the right to go to another country and ask it to protect
you. You lose this right if you have killed someone and if you, yourself, do not
respect what is written here.
15. You have the right to belong to a country and nobody can prevent you, without a good
reason, from belonging to a country if you wish.
16. As soon as a person is legally entitled, he or she has the right to marry and have a
family. In doing this, neither the color of your skin, the country you come from nor your
religion should be impediments. Men and women have the same rights when they are
married and also when they are separated.
Nobody should force a person to marry.
The government of your country should protect you and the members of your family.
17. You have the right to own things and nobody has the right to take these from you
without a good reason.
18. You have the right to profess your religion freely, to change it, and to practice it either
on your own or with other people.
19. You have the right to think what you want, to say what you like, and nobody should
forbid you from doing so. You should be able to share your ideas also—with people
from any other country.
20. You have the right to organize peaceful meetings or to take part in meetings in a
peaceful way. It is wrong to force someone to belong to a group.
21. You have the right to take part in your country's political affairs either by belonging to
the government yourself or by choosing politicians who have the same ideas as you.
Governments should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret. You should
get a vote and all votes should be equal. You also have the same right to join the
public service as anyone else.
22. The society in which you live should help you to develop and to make the most of all
the advantages (culture, work, social welfare) which are offered to you and to all the
men and women in your country.
23. You have the right to work, to be free to choose your work, to get a salary which
allows you to support your family. If a man and a woman do the same work, they
should get the same pay.
All people who work have the right to join together to defend their interests.
24. Each work day should not be too long, since everyone has the right to rest and should
be able to take regular paid holidays.
25. You have the right to have whatever you need so that you and your family: do not fall
ill or go hungry; have clothes and a house; and are helped if you are out of work, if
you are ill, if you are old, if your wife or husband is dead, or if you do not earn a living
for any other reason you cannot help. Mothers and their children are entitled to special
care. All children have the same rights to be protected, whether or not their mother
was married when they were born.
26. You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school.
Primary schooling should be free.You should be able to learn a profession or continue
your studies as far as wish. At school, you should be able to develop all your talents
and you should be taught to get on with others, whatever their race, religion or the
country they come from.
27. You have the right to share in your community's arts and sciences, and any good they
do. Your works as an artist, writer, or a scientist should be protected, and you should
be able to benefit from them.
28. So that your rights will be respected, there must be an 'order' which can protect them.
This ‘order’ should be local and worldwide.
29. You have duties towards the community within which your personality can only fully
develop. The law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect
others and to be respected.
30 In all parts of the world, no society, no human being, should take it upon her or himself
to act in such a way as to destroy the rights which you have just been reading about.
They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly
manner.
2. Everyone can claim the following rights, despite: a different sex, a different skin color,
speaking a different language, thinking different things, believing in another religion,
owning more or less, being born in another social group, coming from another country.
It also makes no difference whether the country you live in is independent or not.
3. You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
4. Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you should not make anyone
your slave.
5. Nobody has the right to torture you.
6. You should be legally protected in the same way everywhere, and like everyone else.
7. The law is the same for everyone; it should be applied in the same way to all.
8. You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not
respected.
9. Nobody has the right to put you in prison, to keep you there, or to send you away from
your country unjustly, or without good reason.
10. If you go on trial this should be done in public.
The people who try you should not let themselves be influenced by others.
11. You should be considered innocent until it can be proved that you are guilty.
If you are accused of a crime, you should always have the right to defend yourself.
Nobody has the right to condemn you and punish you for something you have not
done.
12. You have the right to ask to be protected if someone tries to harm your good name,
enter your house, open your letters, or bother you or your family without a good
reason.
13. You have the right to come and go as you wish within your country.
You have the right to leave your country to go to another one; and you should be able
to return to your country if you want.
14. If someone hurts you, you have the right to go to another country and ask it to protect
you. You lose this right if you have killed someone and if you, yourself, do not
respect what is written here.
15. You have the right to belong to a country and nobody can prevent you, without a good
reason, from belonging to a country if you wish.
16. As soon as a person is legally entitled, he or she has the right to marry and have a
family. In doing this, neither the color of your skin, the country you come from nor your
religion should be impediments. Men and women have the same rights when they are
married and also when they are separated.
Nobody should force a person to marry.
The government of your country should protect you and the members of your family.
17. You have the right to own things and nobody has the right to take these from you
without a good reason.
18. You have the right to profess your religion freely, to change it, and to practice it either
on your own or with other people.
19. You have the right to think what you want, to say what you like, and nobody should
forbid you from doing so. You should be able to share your ideas also—with people
from any other country.
20. You have the right to organize peaceful meetings or to take part in meetings in a
peaceful way. It is wrong to force someone to belong to a group.
21. You have the right to take part in your country's political affairs either by belonging to
the government yourself or by choosing politicians who have the same ideas as you.
Governments should be voted for regularly and voting should be secret. You should
get a vote and all votes should be equal. You also have the same right to join the
public service as anyone else.
22. The society in which you live should help you to develop and to make the most of all
the advantages (culture, work, social welfare) which are offered to you and to all the
men and women in your country.
23. You have the right to work, to be free to choose your work, to get a salary which
allows you to support your family. If a man and a woman do the same work, they
should get the same pay.
All people who work have the right to join together to defend their interests.
24. Each work day should not be too long, since everyone has the right to rest and should
be able to take regular paid holidays.
25. You have the right to have whatever you need so that you and your family: do not fall
ill or go hungry; have clothes and a house; and are helped if you are out of work, if
you are ill, if you are old, if your wife or husband is dead, or if you do not earn a living
for any other reason you cannot help. Mothers and their children are entitled to special
care. All children have the same rights to be protected, whether or not their mother
was married when they were born.
26. You have the right to go to school and everyone should go to school.
Primary schooling should be free.You should be able to learn a profession or continue
your studies as far as wish. At school, you should be able to develop all your talents
and you should be taught to get on with others, whatever their race, religion or the
country they come from.
27. You have the right to share in your community's arts and sciences, and any good they
do. Your works as an artist, writer, or a scientist should be protected, and you should
be able to benefit from them.
28. So that your rights will be respected, there must be an 'order' which can protect them.
This ‘order’ should be local and worldwide.
29. You have duties towards the community within which your personality can only fully
develop. The law should guarantee human rights. It should allow everyone to respect
others and to be respected.
30 In all parts of the world, no society, no human being, should take it upon her or himself
to act in such a way as to destroy the rights which you have just been reading about.