Choosing Peace

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Think about a time when you encountered a conflict. What was the conflict about? Who was involved? Where did it take place? How was it resolved? Have you ever wondered about the role peace plays in your life? This unit is about people who share ideas, dreams, and solutions. You will see what some people have done to choose peace.

Major Integrated Resource (MIR)

• Nelson Language Arts 6 Series available from Nelson Publishing Company

Curriculum Materials Centre

• Nelson 6 [kit] : language arts novels. -- Toronto : ITP Nelson, c1998-1999.-
  18 books (various titles), 6 CDs + 1 teacher's guide. -- (Nelson Language
  arts novels)
  • Grade level: Int.
    Title supplied by cataloguer.
    Contents: Boathouse treasure (3 c.) -- The ivory claw (3 c.) -- Mariah
    keeps cool (3 c.) -- River sky summer (3 c.) -- Where have you been,
    Billy Boy? (3 c.) -- You can pick me up at Peggy's Cove (3 c.). CDs:
    Choosing peace (3 disks) -- Going the distance (3 disks). Teacher's
    guide: Nelson language arts novels, 6.
• Choosing peace. [Grade 6] [kit]. -- Toronto : ITP Nelson, 1998. --- 2 ---
  15 books (readers) + 1 teacher's guide. -- (Nelson language arts. 6)
  • Grade level: Int.
• Conflict resolution and peer mediation [kit] : student leadership ideas. ---
  56 books (various titles), 3 teacher's guides, 4 videocassettes with
  teacher guides, 1 package of supplementary handouts.

Grade level: Pr - Sr.
Contents: Creative conflict solving for kids student handbook (30 c.) --
Leadership training : a resource manual for Catholic schools
(supplementary handouts) -- Mediation for kids teacher guide -- Mediation
for kids student handbook (25 c.) -- Peer mediation/peacemaker teacher's
manual -- Peer ministry : students helping students teacher guide --
Strategies to handle conflict in-service 1992 teacher resources -- Taking
chances : teens and risk (videocassette plus teacher guide) -- What
should you do? : deciding what's right (videocassette plus teacher guide)
-- When the pressure's on : groups and you (videocassette plus teacher
guide) -- Yes, no, maybe? : decision-making skills (videocassette plus
teacher guide).

• Kreidler, William J. - Creative conflict resolution : more than 200 activities for keeping peace
  in the classroom / William J. Kreidler. -- Glenview, Ill. : Scott, Foresman,
  c1984.
  216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. -- (Good year education series)

  Includes indexes.
  Bibliography: p. 209-211.

Web Resources

• Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes - A summary of the trials and tribulations of a young Japanese girl who was two kilometers when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima
• Video V6795 - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - 30 min- available from Sask. Learning's Educational Video Duplication Service
• Origami - How to Fold a Crane - Instructions and diagrams on how to fold paper cranes
• A-Bomb WWW Museum - World War II ended with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Find out more about the history of this tragic time at the A-Bomb WWW Museum . You'll find links to other similar sites, and an extensive table of contents to assist you as you and your teacher study this time period.
• Peace Magazine- Peace is the focus of the online site of this Canadian publication. Back issues can be viewed and comments e-mailed to the staff. Mainly a teacher site
• In Flanders Fields - A summary of the life of Canadian World War II soldier John McRae and his writing of the poem In Flanders Fields
• Conflict Resolution Activities for Elementary Students - a set of seven conflict resolution objectives and seven ideas to help reach that objective with your students.
• The Impact of the Atomic Bomb on Japan - A set of web links and related questions about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan and end World War II.
• Susan Aglukark - A biography of this leading voice in Canadian music
• O Siem by Susan Aglukark - the words and music are contained here
• UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - from the Youth Ambassadors Web Site, more about the 1989 United Nations Convention
• Anne Frank Online is an excellent site that give Anne's life in both text and photos. Selections from her diary are included.
• Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites - This introductory lesson exposes students to a variety of online texts about Anne Frank and the Holocaust prior to more extensive study of these topics. Students are encouraged to cooperatively examine Internet sites as a primary source of information, and then share their impressions and opinions of the various sites.

Web Quests

• Heroes Among Us: World War II Interview Project - Students research, create, and interview using the World War II setting
  

Related Novel Sets Available from the Curriculum Materials Centre

• Forbidden City by William Bell - Alex Jackson is thrilled when his newsman father asks him to go to Beijing, China, where students and civilians are demonstrating for democracy in Tian An Men Square. Alex's excitement turns to horror and dismay when the movement is met with military violence and he finds himself alone amid the turmoil, carrying illegal video tapes, desperate to escape the forbidden city.

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