Human
Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery
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LESSON PLAN 2 Title – Human Trafficking & Modern Day Slavery – Laws & Conventions Unit Topic: Sociology Grade Level: College Lesson Topic: Fighting
Trafficking in Persons Through Laws and Conventions Primary Method Used: Individual Internet Research Lesson Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Define trafficking in
persons 2. Identify the main purposes
for which people are trafficked 3.
Identify several international, regional and
national anti-trafficking laws and conventions that define, outlaw and punish
trafficking 4. Describe
how these laws and conventions might apply to trafficking activity in an
assigned country 5. Outline the success or
failure of the government of an assigned country to enforce its laws in the
spirit of anti-trafficking conventions 6. Suggest possible action
plans for the assigned country Equipment and Supplies Needed (for research): PC access to both the Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery
website and to the Topical Research Digest:Human Rights And Contemporary Slavery. [[http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking] [https://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/slavery/us.pdf] Anticipatory Set: The anticipatory set for
this lesson will be a brief description of some of the forms of modern-day
slavery, and how human trafficking & slavery are defined by international laws and conventions. [http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/00-HumanTrafficking.htm] [http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/00-Background.htm] [https://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/researchdigest/slavery/us.pdf] Sequence of Learning Activities: 1.
Anticipatory set 2.
Discuss the objectives of this project. Design grading rubric 3. Assign a country to each student to research. Start with tier-3 countries and work backwards toward tier-1. [http://www.gvnet.com/humantrafficking/00-Ratings.htm] Assignments: Each student will be assigned a country from the Human Trafficking 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 four of the objectives. |