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US Institute of Peace

Making a Difference: Becoming a Peacebuilder

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Being an agent of change is no easy task! What are some of the common challenges that peacebuilders face every day? The 14th portion in a series of 15 explores the lives of peacebuilders. Grouped pupils discuss these challenges before...
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US Institute of Peace

Nonverbal Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What is your body saying that maybe your words aren't? Scholars explore the vast world of the subtle, and not-so-subtle, nonverbal communication cues through group and individual work. Lesson seven in a series of peacebuilding exercises...
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US Institute of Peace

Negotiation Role-Play

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
War-torn Kosovo is experiencing another crisis—thousands of broken-down cars clogging the damaged highways, making travel impossible. Which local auto shop owner will get the contract to clear the road for progress? After some research,...
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US Institute of Peace

Identifying Your Conflict Style

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
How do you handle conflict? Individuals look inward to determine their own conflict style through group discussion and a short quiz. The sixth installment in a series of 15 conflict management lessons examines how our feelings and...
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Perkins School for the Blind

Please Call Me Names!

For Teachers Pre-K - 8th
Teaching students who are blind means teaching them skills a sighted person may take for granted. To practice calling people and objects by name, learners engage in a cueing activity. The child calls for an adult by name, and then uses a...
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Curated OER

Respect For Oneself And Others

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate how to give respect to themselves and others. They consider how respect is part of how we treat others and consider personal boundaries. Students discuss how one should handle the situation of being asked to...
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Curated OER

Traits Needed for Effective Group Process

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars compile a list of 10 desirable traits for working with others. They evaluate the traits that are necessary for specific jobs and describe them in work settings.
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Curated OER

Clifford's Big Idea: Be Responsible

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners become aware of how important it is to be responsible at home and school through meaningful reading and language experiences. In this Clifford Gets a Job lesson plan, students author their own booklet regarding responsibility at...
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Curated OER

Poverty and Inequality in the World's Richest Nation

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students examine poverty and inequality in America. For this current events lesson, students read the provided articles "Poverty," "Inequality Growing in America," "Inequality: Views on Causes, Effects, Remedies," and "Theories on the...
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Curated OER

Hotel English: A Simulation Role-play

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice the skills to enter a hotel and book a room. In this hotel English lesson, students are introduced to the etiquette associated with entering hotel. Students role-play ways in which people interact in a hotel setting....
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Curated OER

The Classroom Easter Egg Hunt

For Teachers K - 5th
Students work cooperatively to discover hidden Easter eggs in the classroom using prepositions of location. They record the location of the eggs on the worksheet found at the included web link but do not move it so others can find it.
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Curated OER

Developing A Balanced Lifestyle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students engage in a study of the character trait of peace and how it is useful to becoming part of a lifestyle. The lesson asks students to read a story that illustrates the concept that is followed by targeted questions to be answered.
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Curated OER

History and culture through food

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students select a favorite family recipe and research the recipe and its ingredients using a variety of sources on the Internet. Each student then creates a recipe flyer for a class cookbook that includes their recipe and the historical...
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Organizer
Curated OER

Decision Making Diagram

For Students 4th - 12th
In this literacy worksheet, students use the created resources for further progress towards knowledge. The sheet is a teacher's guide for creating student resources.
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Curated OER

Spookley the Square Pumpkin

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students complete activities with the story Spookley the Square Pumpkin. In this holiday lesson, students listen to the story and create their own Spookley pumpkin with Popsicle sticks and paints. They use their character counts traits...
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Ed Change

Inclusion/Exclusion

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students verbally share their own experiences as students, exploring different ways people are made to feel "included" in the learning process.
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Ed Change

Facilitating the Difficult Dialogue: Role Plays

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students share stories and role play about a time when they participated in, or facilitated, a discussion on racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, or another form of oppression that took an unexpected turn and caused conflict that was...
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Ed Change

Understanding the Depth and Breadth of "Multicultural"

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students examine the concept of multicultural. They identify the characteristics of culture. They answer questions to complete the lesson.
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Ed Change

Circles of My Multicultural Self

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners identify what they consider to be the most important dimensions of their own identity, and examine stereotypes.
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Little Stones

How Can Poetry Make People Think and Care?

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Can beautiful words change the world? Literary scholars discover how to paint their visions of change using poetry in a series of three workshops. Each independent topic gives participants a chance to examine their feelings about...
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Florida Department of Health

Understanding the Risk of Substance Abuse Unit

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Teenage brains are different! Understanding that the teenage brain is still developing and thus more impacted by substance abuse is the key concept in a three-lesson high school health unit. Participants learn about how the brain and...
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PPT
Positively Autism

Thanksgiving Vocabulary

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Corn, cornbread, cranberry sauce, family. Introduce learners with autism to 13 vocabulary words associated with Thanksgiving. Each printed word is illustrated and presented against a golden background.
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PPT
Positively Autism

Thanksgiving Verbs

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Bake, cook, eat, serve, travel. Five verbs associated with Thanksgiving are introduced to learners with autism. This is a presentation that features one printed word and an illustration of that word on each slide.
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PPT
Positively Autism

Fourth of July Vocabulary

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Flag, fireworks, parade. Introduce learners with autism to nine words associated with the Fourth of July. Each word is illustrated with either a photograph or drawing.

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