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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Sing songs about peace, such as 'We are the world'. |
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Our human family |
Many languages and cultures |
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Role play being a good friend to someone who is being hurt or bullied. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Listen to different types of music and notice how they make you feel - then make a chart to show which ones made you feel the most peaceful inside; notice the other feelings that came up as well. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Make a peace meter - and mark on it how peaceful you feel in different places, spaces and times - home, school classroom, playground, in trees etc. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Find a place that would be hard for a person with a disability (e.g. wheelchair user) to be able to enter and make a drawing of how the place could be adapted so that they could be comfortable. If possible, share the drawings/plans with the managers/owners of that place. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Make a campaign about something affecting children in your local area: make posters, letters, a petition; role play how you will talk with people about the problem you want to change. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Play a simulation game to compare and contrast authoritarian vs collaborative leadership and discuss (or watch the video "Blue Eyes, Green Eyes, or the Berkley experiment and discuss). |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Learn Peace Dances - circle dances from different countries. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Play the game "Step into my circle if..." game to discover commonalities and diversity between the children. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Listen to the story of the "Peace Pilgrim", Gandhi, Mandala, and Martin Luther King and other leaders that fought for peace and justice: discuss what things you admire and why. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Discuss the story of two tribes at war, send youths to fight to see who will win; instead at the end of a long day they decide to take rest and end up listening to each others stories from their tribes; then they decide not to fight and bring peace to their communities by sharing the other tribes stories with the rest of their tribe. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Learn how a conflict can be an opportunity for growth, inspiration and deeper mutual understanding. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Explore vocabulary: war, peace, diversity, justice, integration, segregation, inclusion, exclusion, negotation, compromise, win-win. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Do a simulation game of two countries at war based on a real situation (past or present); the children must negotiate together a peace agreement. |
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Our human family |
Peace and diversity in the world |
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Learn about how Nelson Mandela brought peace after apartheid through getting people to listen to each other's stories of how they had been harmed. |
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Our human family |
Careers and work in permaculture |
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See different types of work in the community that relate to permaculture - whether teachers, gardeners, charitable workers, farm workers, etc. |
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Our human family |
Careers and work in permaculture |
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Imagine creating a house and garden that takes care of the Earth, people and creates abundance to share with neighbors and other creatures; draw your vision and discuss how it makes you feel |
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Visit a market and observe how it is organised.
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Organise a market selling produce grown in the school grounds. Compare and contrast different methods of sales: e.g. price list vs donation basis. |
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Find out about the lives of people working in unfair conditions (from reading, researching, documentaries or by talking to a person who has experienced it) and talk about why it is unfair (e.g. child labour for producing coltan for mobile phone batteries). Discuss the meaning of fair and unfair and how it makes you feel to be treated fairly and unfairly. |
