Introduction
Task
Process &
Resources
Evaluation
Conclusion
Teacher's
notes
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A WebQuest for the tolerance and respect of all cultures.
Black or White?
Yellow or Brown?
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All of them come from the distant past. All of them have a long track record. All of them are delightful.
Does colour matter?
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they came first for the
Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time, no one was left to speak up..."
Do you also think you don't need to speak up? Do you also think you are not in trouble because you are not a Communist or a Jew or a Trade Unionist or a Catholic?.
There are still violations of Human Rights every day. There are examples of intolerance and discrimination in many places. If you wait till they affect you, it could be too late.
This WebQuest will help you understand what causes these situations and how they can alter your life in your classroom, in your neighbourhood or in your town.
I hope, at the end, you'll come to some conclusions and take a stand in favour of tolerance and respect of other cultures.
I
hope, at the end, we can hold hands and build together a better world.
The best way to accept other cultures
is to learn about them.
Do you think you know enough about people
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save pictures, images, symbols, 
graphics or anything else you consider
relevant to the topic.
You will be working in groups of five
people. The different members in the group will have specific roles and
tasks but you will be asked to join together the information you have gathered,
discuss controversial points and agree on any new steps to be taken. So
remember you are part of a team, rely on your team mates and let them rely
on you.
Task2
At the end you will have to organize the
materials you have compiled, create a hypertext document and/or a power
point presentation and explain it.
Your mission is to convince your classmates
of the great value of what you have discovered and how we can benefit from
such a rich diversity of cultures.
Do you know what a hypertext
document is?
Click for help.
Do you know what a Power
Point presentation is?
Click for an example.
(To see the presentation, open the Presentation
Menu, choose the first option -View- and click the key "Page Down"
to see the different slides)
PROCESS.
Activity
1
Before
you start researching on your own:
Read the previous sections carefully (index, introduction
and task) and be sure you understand them.
Discuss the meaning of the quotation by Martin Niemoeller with the members of your team.
You should
talk about aspects like:
· What period of European history does this quotation refer to?
See URL for help.
· Who were "they"?
· Why did they come for those groups (Comunists, Jews, Trade
Unionist, Catholics)?
· What did they do to them?
· What does the author mean by "when they came for me there was no one left to speak up..."?
Take notes on your discussion, you will need them later
on.
Your team has five different experts:
1. Historian
2. Economist
3. Human Right Activist
4. Artist
5. Journalist
Your expertise is history. Use the links
below to obtain information and learn about some cultures in Africa, Asia
and Latin America. Read carefully the web sites selected for you and fill
in the chart 1 with as many details as you can.
Visit at least five of the following pages.
Resources:
Barcelona 2004: The African Caravan for peace.
Example of an agricultural population called "Pume" in Venezuela.
Traditional people of African and Carib-Indian descent
Turks living in Afghanistan
Hakkas, an important element in the Chinese culture.
Multicolour calendar
Religious images
Africa page, in case you need information about a specific country.
Maps
You are an expert on numbers and figures.
Use the links below to obtain information and learn about some cultures in
Africa, Asia and Latin America. Read carefully the web sites selected for
you and fill in the chart 2 with as many details
as you can about them. Look for the social and economic reasons why they
leave their families and countries and emigrate. Use graphics to help your
presentation.
Visit at least five of the following pages.
Resources:
Earning one's living in Latin America
Earning one's living in Africa.
Rice against hunger
Earning one's living in Asia.
Barcelona 2004: Why do people immigrate?
Statistics: gdp per capita, inflation, life expectancy ...
Population
GDP per capita and Inflation
Maps and graphics: economic figures.
You work for the defence of Human Rights
. Your mission is to read the Declaration of Human Rights, research some
"non-profit organizations", denounce situations where Human Rights are violated
and suggest solutions. Read carefully the web sites selected for you and
look for details about the following aspects:
Type of conflicts: intolerance, discrimination,
abuse, murder, ...
Where they happen.
Reasons that provoke these situations.
Reference to the article in the Declaration
of Human Rights.
Details about Non Governmental Organization
(NGO)
List the ones you visit and others you may
know.
Their programmes
Their action plans
Once you finish your research fill in the chart 3 with your suggestions for solutions.
Visit at least five of the following pages.
Resources:
Declaration of Human Rights
Amnesty International
UNICEF
UNESCO site.
Barcelona 2004: war children
Organization to ensure racial Harmony.
Social indicators: housing, health, education, ...
Article: the quality of a civilisation by its attitude to foreigners.
Suggestions for fighting discrimination
As an artist your interests involve paintings, sculpture, music, dancing, ... Look for information about the artistic characteristics of some cultures from Africa, Asia and Latin America and fill in chart 4 with as many details as you can.
Visit at least five of the following pages.
Resources:
Asian Art
African Art
Latin American Art
American basketry
African Art
African Music
Black music
Music from Los Andes
Images Gallery (Mythology)
You will go after the news. Your mission is to research articles from online newspapers about real situations where there is evidence of discrimination and a lack of tolerance. Read carefully the different articles and give as many details as you can about the following aspects (chart 5).
Newspaper name and date
Copy the headlines
Give a short summary of the articles
Explain the kind of violation of Human Rights.
Reference to the article in the Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights.
Where it happened
The cause that has led to the situation
Reaction of people, government, social environment,
...
Your opinion
Visit at least five of the following pages.
Resources:
Barcelona 2004: the integration of women
Norway, murdering of black teenager.
Brandi Blackbear teenage kid accused of practising witchcraft.
Nkosi Johnson the 12-year-old figurehead for Aids, died this morning.
Afghanistan, labels to distinguish Hindus from Muslims.
Kenya. The price of a woman in Africa.
England. Human trafficking, modern slavery.
Spain. Illegal immigration.
Children at work, real stories.
After your searching activities, you will need to bring the information you have got to your group. Show it to the different members so that everybody knows what you already have and what is missing.
Plan the next step: some more searching?, images?, photographs?, figures?, articles?...
Once you have everything you need you are ready for the next activity.
Activity 4
Organize your material.
Decide the order in which to present it.
Type in a Hypertext document or a Power
Point presentation.
It has to be clear and easy
to understand: introduction, core -main ideas- from the
more general to the more particular
aspects, conclusions.
Add images, pictures, photographs, drawings,
... The most visual, the most
comprehensive.
Let your team mates read it and give their
opinions.
Revise and modify, if necessary. (Remember
to use the Spelling Checker)
Activity 5
Get ready to present it to the whole class
in a short talk.
Rehearse in front of a small group before
doing it and ask them for some feedback.
Remember how important it is to help your
talk with images, objects, music and
everything that can help others
understand you.
Your report and oral presentation will be evaluated according to the following aspects (See evaluation charts):
Members participation in the information
research, written report and oral presentation.
Use of relevant information, images, graphics,
links and visual aids.
Concise and clear information and
informative report and oral presentation.
Correct grammar and spelling.
Project completion.
Working co-operatively.
Appropriate use of new technologies.
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CONCLUSION.
You have been involved in a very complicated task and you have worked very hard. You deserve the best. Congratulations!!
The objective of this WebQuest was to help you to research complex aspects of our world and run away from simplistic ideas. Nothing is just black or white. Nothing is just good or bad.
Your participation and collaboration in the team work and the discussion of different perspectives have helped everybody to gain knowledge. We know now that to understand how things work we need to come closer and look at them very carefully. We know now the causes hidden behind discrimination: superstition, ignorance, envy, fear, ...
I hope that after completing this WebQuest you know a little bit more about other cultures, you understand them better and you appreciate the richness of such a big diversity.
Now you are ready to share your knowledge and help make a better world.
If you liked not only the topic but also the way you worked things out, I invite you to visit some related links, you will enjoy them.
And now off you go... but come back any time you want.
Background.
The quotation in the Introduction section
should help teachers and students to centre the topic and know what the WebQuest
will be about. This task has to be done as team work. Discussion should
be enhanced and carefully guided as it may be the point of departure of a
successful completion of the activity.
Procedure.
This WebQuest has been designed for 14-15
years old students at Secondary School in Spain. However it can de easily
adapted for students at different levels.
Tip 1. Don't let language be an obstacle at the early stage
because
students can be lost too quickly. Offer a web-translator
for those
students with a low level of the language and let them understand what
they are researching and get basic ideas about the topic.
Tip 2. Have a dictionary on-line
so that students can look up new
words in easily.
Tip 3. Guide students to use Spelling checkers to avoid too
many
mistakes.
Tip 4. Help them to choose the kind of document and presentation
according to their abilities (Word document, Power Point, Web
Page...)
Technical aspects.
It is very important to be familiar with
the hardware and software you are going to use.
Be sure you have the programmes you need.
Check the web sites that will be visited.
Keep some web sites in cache memory, just
in case.
Web copy some sites in case connections
fail
Have some alternative task on paper in case
some electric problem occurs.
Resources:
Web -translator:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
http://www.dictionary.com/translate/
Dictionary on-line:
www.babylon.com
Monolingual
dictionary.