Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
New Mexico Standards

• Analyze concepts such as role, status, and social class during conflicts among individuals
• Apply ideas, theories, and modes of historical inquiry to understand historical and contemporary developments in order to make informed decisions and take appropriate action concerning public policy issues
• Analyze historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures
• Evaluate the roles of citizens and their participation and involvement in civic projects

ISTE Technology Performance Indicators

• Routinely and efficiently use online information resources to meet needs for collaboration, research, publication, communication, and productivity
• Select and apply technology tools for research, information analysis, problem solving, and decision making in content learning
• Collaborate with peers, experts, and others to contribute to a content-related knowledge base by using technology to compile, synthesize, produce, and disseminate information, models, and other creative works

Student Objectives
Students will be able to:

• Identify significant events and people in various struggles for human rights
• Generate high-level questions about human rights issues
• Make comparisons between historical and international human rights struggles and current issues
• Recognize and understand the different ways in which human rights are understood and interpreted around the globe and throughout history
• Use a variety of research skills to find, interpret, and synthesize information
• Make effective oral and written presentations using software
• Interpret historical events in terms of their cultural context
• Collaborate with peers effectively to plan and develop products
• Form and defend personal opinions about human rights issues

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