The Curriculum
Media Voices for Children has created a seven-unit high school curriculum to teach students about global child labor. The curriculum embeds online tools and best practices used by leaders in the field to combat the commercial exploitation of children.
Lessons are available online on this teaching platform, and in a downloadable interactive pdf, featuring interactive games, apps, projects and video playlists. Lesson activities can be used independently to integrate across academic disciplines, or as a whole unit to give students a more comprehensive understanding.
Also designed to guide educators unfamiliar with child labor, Childhood Unbound inspires both children and adults to use their power as writers, advocates, and agents of change to create a fairer world for all children.
We do ask that you sign up with an email address to download the curriculum. We will not sell on your information - we will use it only to keep you informed on updates to the curriculum and the activities of Media Voices for Children. If you use it for your classes, please help us refine the curriculum by taking the feedback survey below.
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Childhood Unbound Curriculum
$150.00
Every year
A seven-unit course on the core issues regarding children’s rights and child labor. Students will become informed about the supply chain, children’s rights policies, child labor issues and the basic pillars of human rights as a whole.
If your school district is under-resourced - we get it, it happens - you can download the curriculum for free by using the discount code NOFEE.
The Films
The Documentaries
From Stolen Childhoods, a survey of global child labor, to Rescuing Emmanuel, a film about street children, to The Same Heart, which urges financial policies that center on investment in children to Children of Bal Ashram, our films are a testament to the hope and resilience of children.
The films are available for rental to individuals or for licensing to school districts, public libraries, colleges and universities. The Same Heart and Children of Bal Ashram have accompanying study guides to help teachers use them in a classroom setting.
The Magazine
The Media Voices Quarterly Magazine
brings commentary, art, photography and poetry from a broad range of perspectives. Free to read online and download.
Our latest, Vol. 5, focuses on the environment, child marriage, water issues, mental health and activism.
Beneath the Barcode
Photo Exhibit
The Photo Exhibit
Beneath the Barcode is a photo exhibit aimed at middle and high schools and shows through iconic photography how children factor into the production, transport, manufacturing, refining and distribution of all the things we eat, buy and use. The exhibit can be downloaded for exhibition at your school and comes with an interactive action kit.
Fighting for Child Rights
Welcome to Media Voices for Children's child rights learning platform. Here you can view our documentaries on child labor and access the tools and information you need to help millions of children at home and around the world have a decent life.
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A seven-unit course on the core issues regarding children’s rights and child labor. Students will become informed about the supply chain, children’s rights policies, child labor issues and the basic pillars of human rights as a whole.
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