Childbridge for Children's Rights is an online shared learning project created by Searingtown School's Karen Kliegman, Library Media Specialist, and Beth Williams, Art Teacher, intended to provide teachers and upper elementary students with the resources and motivation to make a difference in the lives of children around the world. Through research, art making and writing, students will explore and reflect on issues surrounding the rights of the child.

Through a grant from Teaching Tolerance, fifth grade students at Searingtown School will create a children's picture book focused on children's rights. The book will be available for purchase, with all proceeds going to an organization concerned with helping children in need.

If you would like to involve your students in this project, click on the "Participate" button at the top.

Other learning modules pertaining to child labor issues developed for older students (middle school through high school) are available at Building Bridges for Children's Rights, an electronic shared learning community, created in partnership with Chivy Sok, human rights activist and:

 

• Searingtown School
  Herricks Community Fund
  The Electronic Educational Village
  Long Island University's C. W. Post's Educational Technology Dept
  International Center for Child Labor & Education
• The University of Iowa for Human Rights
• Anti-bias Coalition of Nassau County High Schools

Childbridge is a registered project at Global SchoolNet and Midlink Magazine