Let peace begin with your class! After brainstorming definitions and interpretations of the word peace, class members draw their version of peace and pass it to a neighbor, who adds to the drawing. Several rounds later, students get their pictures back and analyze whether their classmates define peace differently than they do.

Concepts

peace, world peace, conflict, conflict resolution

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Additional Tags

classroom support

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Instructional Ideas

• Connect to the four levels of conflict in the previous lesson: is interpersonal peace the same as world peace?
• Use in a lesson on handling conflictions between peers

Classroom Considerations

• The third part of a five-lesson on conflict resolution

Pros

• Provides timing suggestions for implementation
• Includes an exit pass worksheet for a closure activity

Cons

• None

Common Core

RI.3.7 RI.4.7 RI.5.7