ERIC Number: ED257766
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1984-Jul
Pages: 44
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Perspectives at Work: Fourteen Activities for Building Peacemaking Skills. Grades One to Six.
Pirtle, Sara, Ed.
Designed for teachers of students in grades 1-6, this representative sample of artwork and creative writing illustrates activities for teaching peace education. Based on a curriculum created by the Greater Boston Chapter of Educators for Social Responsibility ("Perspectives"), the booklet presents student art and writing samples illustrating student ideas about peace, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Students study local community builders, famous peacemakers, and people who are different from themselves, and examine change, decision making strategies, and the future. Suggested activities for students in grades 1-3 include making peace flowers as a cooperative effort, interviewing community builders, studying the life of famous peacemakers, and examining conflicts. Activities for students in grades 3-5 include defining peace, dramatizing the decisions of famous peacemakers, studying changes, exploring a non-violent future world, imagining oneself in the future, and making a time capsule. Activities for students in grades 5 and 6 include cartooning as a means of teaching about environmental problems, using skits to demonstrate decisions made by famous people, and participation in an activity called "Name Gathering," in which students encounter a different culture. Each of the three sections--first through third grade, third through fifth, and fifth through sixth--begins with a brief summary of the assignments and is followed by examples. (LH)
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation, Creative Writing, Decision Making, Elementary Education, Futures (of Society), Learning Activities, Peace, Student Developed Materials, Units of Study
Traprock Peace Center, Woolman Hill Keets Road, Deerfield, MA 01342 ($2.00; $1.50 quantity discount).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Traprock Peace Center, Deerfield, MA.
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