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The following are ideas for teachers who would like to integrate the Darfur Challenge into their classroom activities. They include suggestions from the Darfur Challenge team, and links to online teaching resources on Darfur. If you have found other useful resources, if you have suggestions to make, or if you particularly enjoyed any of the materials listed below, please let us know! You can reach us at: info@darfurchallenge.org. BY THE DARFUR CHALLENGE TEAM: - One page introduction to the crisis in Darfur (elementary version, middle and high school version) - Darfur Challenge kit for participants, including a one-page introduction to the crisis, tips for participating students, and an invitation letter from the Darfur Challenge team (elementary version, middle and high school version) - Power point introduction to the crisis in Darfur (elementary version, middle and high school version) - Children's stories from Darfur (pdf version, online version) - Satellite mapping of attacks on Darfur - Educational online video game - Photo essays on children in Darfur - You Tube videos on children in Darfur – coming soon! - Online documentaries and interviews - Books – elementary students - Books – middle and high school students - DVDs/videos – middle and high school students DARFUR IN THE CLASSROOM * Please note that these resources are provided by outside organizations, and are not formally endorsed by the Darfur Challenge team. - National Geographic: WhatÕs happening in Darfur (Grades 6-8) - National Geographic: Darfur and the Janjaweed (Grades 9-12) - UN Association of the USA: WhatÕs occurring in Sudan? (Grades 9-12) - Oxfam Education: Darfur Ð Teaching about the issues (Grades 7-12) - USHMM: Witnessing in Darfur (Grades 7-12) - PBS Newshour: Crisis in Sudan Ð Responding to medical emergencies (various ages) - Facing History and Ourselves: Building a Òtoolbox for differenceÓ (Grades 9-12) - American University Washington College of Law: The Genocide teaching project (Grades 10-12) - Anti-Defamation League: Genocide in Darfur Ð is the world doing enough (Grades 10-12) - GI Net: Sudan Ð Efforts to avert genocide in the making (various ages) - Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility: Genocide in Darfur, inaction and the Security Council (Grades 9-12) - Catholic Relief Services: Lesson plan on Darfur, Sudan (Grades 9-12) - Amnesty International: Where do you stand and never again (Grades 9-12) Teaching modules: Understanding Sudan (various ages) 1. PBS online: The Darfur Crisis  Video on how satellite mapping technology is being used to document attacks in Darfur. Click here to see more. 2 Amnesty International: Eyes on Darfur  Eyes On Darfur breaks new ground in protecting human rights by allowing people around the world to literally "watch over" and protect twelve intact, but highly vulnerable, villages using commercially available satellite imagery. www.eyesondarfur.org 3. Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: World is Witness  The Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative brings together data, photographs, video, and eyewitness testimony in Google Earth to help inform citizens, governments, and institutions about current and potential genocides and related crimes against humanity, and to respond. www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/region/C39  Food Force – UN World Food Programme  As team rookie you have six missions to complete. Each mission represents a part of the process of delivering food aid to an area in crisis. The final mission shows you how food aid can help people rebuild their lives in the years following a disaster. www.food-force.com/index.php/reality/crisis/darfur The Food Force website has a page for teachers who would like to use to the videogame for lessons in the classroom: www.food-force.com/index.php/teachers/ 1. Daily Life and Education in DarfurÕs Camps Ð UNICEF  In this photo essay, UNICEF documents the challenges facing kids in Darfur, and how they are helping make a difference for them and their families. www.unicef.org/photoessays/25400.html 2. Conflict Drawn: The conflict in Darfur through childrenÕs eyes - Human Rights Watch  On a mission along the border of Chad and Darfur, Human Rights Watch researchers gave children notebooks and crayons to keep them occupied while they spoke with the childrenÕs parents. Without any instruction or guidance, the children drew scenes from their experiences of the war in Darfur. www.hrw.org/photos/2005/darfur/drawings Coming soon! For middle and high school students 1. Darfur: On Our Watch - CBC and PBS co-production  DARFUR: On Our Watch examines why it took the UN so long to respond to the obvious early warning signs of a horrific ethnic cleansing. It will document in chilling detail how politics, oil, guns and money trumped human rights as powerful interests on the Security Council blocked the world from acting, and how the United States, weakened by wars in Somalia and Iraq could not influence the world forum to act. www.cbc.ca/doczone/darfur 2. Debbie Bodkin on The Hour, with George Stroumboulopoulos  Debbie Bodkin has seen a lot of human misery in her job as a Sergeant with the Waterloo Regional Police Service. But nothing prepared her for what she saw and heard interviewing Darfur refugees in 2004 and 2005, as a volunteer for fact-finding missions by the U.S. and the United Nations www.cbc.ca/thehour/videos.html?id=728639740 1. The Sudan Project: Rebuilding With the People of Darfur - A Young Person's Guide - Melissa Leembruggen (Paperback)  This book addresses development and peace issues in an ÔA to ZÕ format. Use this book to discuss issues on the ground in Darfur including accessing clean water, growing food, having adequate sanitization equipment, etc. 2. We Hear You: American KidsÕ Reflections on Darfur (Paperback) - with a foreword by Maya Angelou  Read the poetry by American children with your students, then have them write their own poems about Darfur. Create a bound edition, and sell them to fundraise for the Darfur Challenge. 1. The Translator - Daoud Hari  The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world- an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Using his high school knowledge of languages as his weaponÑwhile others around him were taking up armsÑDaoud Hari has helped inform the world about Darfur. 2. Not on Our Watch - Don Cheadle & John Prendergast  Over the past five years, youth groups, religious organizations, politicians and individuals have responded to the crisis in Sudan in increased numbers. This book is a guide for these already involved, as well as those who are interested in taking action, or speaking out against the mass killings that continue to occur in the country's Darfur region. 3. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival - Jen Marlowe  In October and November, 2004, after watching woefully inadequate media coverage on the crisis in Darfur, a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy they are living. (There is a curriculum for educators to accompany Darfur Diaries.) 1. The Devil Came on Horseback - starring Brian Steidle  The Devil Came on Horseback exposes the tragedy taking place in Darfur as seen through the eyes of an American witness who has since returned to the US to take action to stop it. Uses the exclusive photographs and first hand testimony of former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle. More info 2. Darfur Diaries: Message From Home - directed by Aisha Bain, Jen Marlowe & Adam Shapiro In October and November, 2004, after watching woefully inadequate media coverage on the crisis in Darfur, a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy they are living. (There is a curriculum for educators to accompany Darfur Diaries.) 3.Darfur NOW - starring Don Cheadle and others  Darfur NOW follows six people who have taken up the challenge to help stop the murder, rape and displacement the Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit people of Darfur have suffered since 2003. With: Don Cheadle, Hejewa Adam, Pablo Recalde, Ahmed Mohammed Abakar, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Adam Sterling. (Facing History and Ourselves/The ENOUGH Project have developed teaching resources to accompany the film Darfur NOW.) DARFUR IN THE CLASSROOM * Most of the following resources were compiled by the American Save Darfur Coalition for teachers in the ÔDollars for DarfurÕ campaign, at this link. This lesson asks students to discuss what is happening in Darfur and why. It asks students to investigate the organizations involved in the conflict and to create a graph of materials that are lacked by the DarfuriansÕ. Click here to see the materials This lesson explores the history of the conflict in Darfur. It can also be used as a reference for students studying humanitarian and environmental disasters in general. Click here to see the materials by the United Nations Association of the United States of America This lesson teaches about discrimination and its role in the Darfur crisis as well as educates students about the history of the conflict while drawing connections with other humanitarian crises in the world. Click here to see the materials ¥ Darfur: Teaching about the Issues ¥ History on the conflict, real stories from young people in the camps, three lessons on student activism and classroom participation Click here to see the materials Ð Lesson plans and activities from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Includes links to accompanying video clips and photo galleries. See PDF download in ÔLinksÕ menu). Click here to view the materials Provides background, activities and critical analysis excercises on medical emergency issues in Sudan. includes links to a variety of online news resources. Click here to view the materials This lesson provides a good overview of genocide and the tools that governments have at their disposal to stop it. Click here to view the materials by the American University Washington College of Law Provides an overview of genocide in general and focuses attention on Darfur with an emphasis on the place of law in the conflict and international organizations like the UN and the International Criminal Court. Click here to view the materials This lesson teaches students about the genocide in Darfur and incorporates an international perspective allowing students to understand what steps the international community has or has not taken. The purpose of this lesson is to teach students that an individual can make a difference. It includes material for students to develop a student run campaign or project to benefit Darfur. Click here to view the materials This lesson helps students understand what is genocide, what is happening in Darfur, the significance of humanitarian organizations, and the role of government aid. Click here to view the materials Morningside focuses on how the Darfur crisis is largely a man-made issue and what governments and organizations must do to stop it. Material in this lesson is sound but somewhat dated, with the last update September 2006. Click here to view the materials Provides background on the conflict and encourages students to assess the responsibility of the international community in helping the people of Darfur. Click here to view the materials Lesson plan on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; no direct mention of Darfur, but does include the Holocaust and the statement of Ònever again.Ó Click here to view the materials Lesson plans include the Crisis in Darfur, Economic Development in Southern Sudan, and The Political Economy of Oil in Sudan. Click here to view the materials |
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