Child Prostitution

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

Resources for Teachers

 

LESSON PLAN 3

Title – Local Dynamics of Child Prostitution – Causes & Consequences

Unit Topic: Sociology

Grade Level: College

Lesson Topic: Becoming a Child Prostitute – Causes & Consequences

Primary Method Used: Individual Internet Research

Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to:

1.      Define the term, child prostitution

2.      Identify the main causes that drive a child to submit to a life of prostitution

3.      For an assigned country, determine the access that a child prostitute has to services such as health and education

4.       Suggest possible action plans to ease the consequences in the assigned country

Equipment and Supplies Needed (for research):

PC access to the Child Prostitution website [http://www.gvnet.com/childprostitution]

Anticipatory Set: The anticipatory set for this lesson will be a brief discussion of how children are drawn in to a life of prostitution, and what governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are doing to counteract it.  The anticipatory set will serve to enforce the concept that social change can be accelerated when resources are provided and intelligent leadership is exercised.

[http://www.gvnet.com/childprostitution/00-Resources.htm]

[http://www.gvnet.com/childprostitution/00-Background.htm]

Sequence of Learning Activities:

1.      Anticipatory set

2.      Discuss the objectives of this project.  Design grading rubric

3.      Assign a country or a group of countries to each student to research

Assignments: Each student will be assigned a country from the Child Prostitution website and given one week to conduct the research and submit a report.  The report is expected to cover all of the Lesson Objectives (above), with some emphasis on the last two of the objectives.