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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. |
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Make a multimedia exhibition to compare the stories behind a fair vs unfair product (e.g. Fair Trade chocolate vs multinational chocolate). Invite the parents or wider community to see their exhibition and/or the children can act out the stories they learned about. |
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Find out about the Fair Trade standard, why it is needed and what it means. |
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Our human family |
Ethical trade |
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Recognise and choose products which are produced in a fair way (e.g. with Fair Trade mark, organic standards etc.) |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share. |
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Spend time in a place that has permaculture ethics embedded and hear adults notice and talk about those ethics. |
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Permaculture ethics and principles |
The permaculture ethics: Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share. |
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Be around people who have respectful behaviour towards themselves, other people and other species. |
