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Educational Resources are divided up into categories as follows:
- Activities & Lesson Plans
- Audio/Video
- Arts
- Multiple
ACTIVITIES & LESSON PLANS
- NEW! War & Children – Two years in the making, War & Children was created by Judi Wyatt of PeaceQuest and Linda Dale of Children/Youth a Peacemakers. We are thrilled to be able to share this resource with the world.
- KAIROS Blanket Exercise – A teaching tool to share the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Can be tailored to suit any age group. Watch the video to get an idea of how it works.
- Getting your class into community work? Perhaps you may want to guide them through the process of deciding which actions your community most needs using the Community Toolbox!
- Another Way IS Possible: A Remembrance Day Resource for Teachers from the Mennonite Community
- Building Blocks of Peace Secondary Resources is an excellent resource created by the Institute of Economics and Peace. Check out the four modules and the wide variety of resources.
- Colman McCarthy Secondary lessons on peace and nonviolence uses classics in peace and justice literature to teach peacemaking.
- Cultivating Peace offers lessons linked to curriculum guidelines across Canada for grades 10 -12 in social sciences, history, geography, politics, civics, law, world issues, sociology and psychology. Bilingual.
- Project Peacemakers: Creating a Culture of Peace PDF
- The Literature of War is a poetry unit with material for up to 16 classes for students in grades 10 – 12. All poems are available online.
- Taking care of the earth is part of creating peace. Take a look at the YMCA Guide to Environmental Leadership
- U.N. Manifesto for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence is worth studying. Ask students to work in groups to suggest how each of these statements would look in practice: MANIFESTO PDF here.
- Students’ 2 lines about peace will inspire your students to write their own 2 lines about peace.
- GAME: “Peace in Our Time” takes approximately an hour to play and discuss. Game description here.
- Powerpoint: help understand the magnitude of 20 million deaths in World War 1. PDF Here.
- Gr 10 Dimensions of War and Peace from Project Ploughshares
VIDEO/AUDIO
- NEW! Hiroshima Day Video – This 9-minute video was produced by PeaceQuest for the 2015 Hiroshima Day Ceremony in Kingston Ontario. It provides an overview and basic facts about the bomb, but also explores what daily life in Hiroshima & Nagasaki was like beforehand.
- Veterans for Peace Video. Veterans For Peace UK is a voluntary organization of men and women who served in every war that Britain has fought since WW2. Their work involves educating young people on the true nature of military service and war. They hope to convince people that war is not the answer to the problems of the 21st century.
- Music Video: Hollerado, a fairly well known Canadian band made a video for the song “So it goes” about his family’s experience with compassion in WW2 Song and minivideo
- Short Film: Neighbours In this 1952 Oscar®-winning short film, Norman McLaren employs the principles normally used to put drawings or puppets into motion to animate live actors. The story is a parable about two people who come to blows over the possession of a flower. Clever, simple, and timeless!
- PBS Series: THE GREAT WAR and the Shaping of the 20th Century Download PDF Summary: PBS series The Great War and the 20th Century INT
- WW I seven short videos by York University History Dept.
- Music Video: about a soldier killed in WW I: WW I music video The Green Fields of France
- RESOURCES FROM CBC ARCHIVES
- There are many useful resources on the CBC website. Be introduced to the CBC’s digital archives here: Intro to Digital Archives ; Classroom Tips for using CBC Digital Archives here and Rubrics from the CBC Digital Archives website
- CBC video and audio clips in categories of War and Conflict
- CBC Archives on War and Conflict
- Propaganda in the Cold War CBC TV Doc Zone documentary
- Propaganda in the War on Terror CBC TV Doc Zone documentary
- Propaganda in WW II CBC TV Doc Zone documentary
- Innovations in War in WW I
- A Soldier’s Life during WW II
- Canada’s Role in WW II
- CBC Archives on War and Conflict
- Propaganda in WW II CBC TV Doc Zone documentary
- Steps of the Dieppe Raid
- Was Dieppe Worthwhile
- Romeo Dallaire and art
- Soldiers in Somalia
- Where was the world during the genocide in Rwanda
- Who Should be a Canadian Soldier
ARTS
- DRAMA about child soldiers. PDF Intro here and to access the script of this play, go here: children and war drama project
- POEM Veterans of the Seventies by Marvin Bell
- MUSIC PeaceQuest Music Coordinator Jeff Piker has curated a list of over 100 songs about peace and war. Lots of lyrics and conent to use in there!
MULTIPLE
- PeaceOne Day has a very rich collection of video and lesson plans for all ages. Sign up for a free account to access.
- Indigenous Dakota, Nehetho, and Anishinaabe Elders in Manitoba released “The Great Binding Law” which shares guidelines for how all peoples can live in peace. A printable PDF is available for download. Students are invited to imagine how they can contribute to building the world proposed in this document or research similar laws recognized by other First Nations.
- Peaceful Schools International is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to the creation of a culture of peace within schools. You will be impressed by the huge array of useful resources.
- Peace Poppies: While red poppies are for Remembrance, white poppies commemorate civilian lives lost and the building of a peaceful culture. You can order white poppies for your class or make your own!
