Unit plan for ages 12-14 in Civic Education: Refugee teenagers
- To understand the abnormal and trying conditions in which refugee children and teenagers live and endure
- To see that refugee adolescents need help and protection
- To understand that combatants in current wars and conflicts are not just adult, male soldiers, but increasingly include children
- To apply imaginative thinking to the situations of refugee children and teenagers
Adults go to war, but they don't realize what damage they are doing to children.
A Nicaraguan child
- To encourage the students to envisage the situations which refugee teenagers live through, and the conditions in which they now live.
- To stimulate empathy for teenagers who are trying to cope and adjust their recent memories of their refugee experiences.