Peace is this years district-wide theme for Hypothetical Elementary School.
Young people throughout the world express a desire for peace on earth.
Your assignment is to gather information from at least three different countries.
Kids for Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize Center
Nobel Peace Prize Educational Games
The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Peace Doves Game
Portrait of Muhammad Yunus
Documentary about Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
United Nations
The People Speak
World Peace Project: Sadako
Queen Rania Challenges Stereotypes
Chatham Summit Quaker Meeting
Rosa Parks: How I fought for Civil Rights
Children for Children’s Grow Involved® on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Independent Lens: Strange Fruit
Peace Day Poem
Your assignment is to gather information from at least three different countries.
- Describe three different projects or programs that young people are involved with
- Enter the link to each relevant Internet site
- Add your description to this blog under the comments section
- Post your links and descriptions on your iGoogle homepage and notebook
- Read the comments of your fellow students
- Add at least three of their links to your iGoogle homepage
Tips and Starting Places
Kids for Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize Center
Nobel Peace Prize Educational Games
The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Peace Doves Game
Portrait of Muhammad Yunus
Documentary about Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
United Nations
The People Speak
World Peace Project: Sadako
Queen Rania Challenges Stereotypes
Chatham Summit Quaker Meeting
Rosa Parks: How I fought for Civil Rights
Children for Children’s Grow Involved® on Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Independent Lens: Strange Fruit
Peace Day Poem
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Discover local activites at "Kids for Peace" http://www.kidsforpeaceusa.org/resource.html
This YouTube Video answers the two questions I had about Muhammad Yunus.
Why do more loans to women?
Are other countries doing Microcredit?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H0PEle9G0U
This is Queen Rania's YouTube Subscription site.
http://www.youtube.com/user/QueenRania
Scholastic.com has an online interactive series titled “Culture & Change: Black History in America.” One topic related to peace since it is about Rosa Parks. It is called, “Rosa Parks: How I fought for Civil Rights.” The website gives you control over what you want to read when. For instance, there is an interview, information about Rosa Park’s life, the bus boycott, nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. There are good photographs from this time period.
The United Nations invited all K-12 students around the world to submit, via e-mail, two lines of poetry about peace. The poems arrived in many languages from 38 different countries. They were gathered together into one long Peace Poem.
Nobelprize.org is informative and interactive; there is information about all of the Nobel Peace Prize Winners. There are also three educational games, short movie presentations, a quiz, experiments and simulated environments You can hear or read some of the laureates’ speeches.
The documentary about Mother Teresa’s work with the poor in Calcutta India is brief but it gives you a sense of what life is like as a Sister in the order created by Mother Teresa. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
One of the three educational games on nobelprize.org is “The Peace Doves Game.” You match information about the eight countries that have “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and a map of the world where you can scope in on the country. The game has a plane full of eight peace doves. When you send out the right dove the dove flies to the mini earth graphic and the game score comes back either mission failed because you didn’t know the right answer or that the country has been disarmed. The game is fun, with good sound and graphics. It’s a good way for kids to understand why so many of the people who won the Nobel Peace Prize were involved with curbing the “The Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons”.
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