Vocabulary

Development is the process of developing or being developed, or to grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
Imagination is the faculty or action of forming new ideas, images, or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. 
Intelligence is the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills. 
Learn is to gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in something by study, experience, or being taught.
Play is the engagement in an activity for enjoyment and recreation, rather than a serious or practical purpose.
Potential is having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. 
Spontaneous is the sudden inner impulse or inclination to do something without premeditation or external stimulus. 

Purpose - 
Right to Play

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Play, like education, is necessary for the development of the child. In this sub-units relating to the Value of Play, children recognize play as a spontaneous self activity that is creative and productive. In this specific sub-unit, children identify that their right to play is to enable them to develop to their full potential, and it is as necessary as the right to education. They further identify that the have a right to play with others or to play in private if needed.
Child Asks: How does play help me develop?
Children's Rights Education enables the child to identify that the right to play is for the development of one's imaginative intelligence. 
Child Answers: Creative play helps me learn. 

Classroom Learning Activities

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Relevant Convention Articles

Article 31
1. States Parties recognize the right of the child to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the arts.
2. States Parties shall respect and promote the right of the child to participate fully in cultural and artistic life and shall encourage the provision of appropriate and equal opportunities for cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activity.

Online Resources and References

Canadian Coalition for the Rights of Children (2011): Children's Right to Rest, Play, Recreation, Culture, and the Arts
Play = Learning: Yale University Conference on Play by Singer, Dorothy, Golinkoff, Roberta, and Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy