Peace Literacy Lessons for High School
New! We've put together a 4 part video series of short Zoom recordings introducing some of the basics of Peace Literacy for educators:
Peace as a skill-set
(4 mins)
Peace Literacy Lesson Plan 1
This three-part unit is designed for middle and high school.
The unit includes sections on:
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Understanding and Healing Aggression
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Recognizing and Applying the Power of Respect
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Resolving Conflict/The Power of Calm
We also have two 90 min lessons designed for high school and college focusing on:
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Understanding and Healing Aggression
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Navigating Conflict/Cultivating Calm
The Landscape of Our Human Needs
To understand peace requires an understanding of non-physical needs such as belonging and self-worth and how they get tangled in trauma. This is a multi-part unit.
In this 24 min. video , Chappell discusses 4 of these key non-physical needs. You can also download "A New Peace Paradigm," a short essay on the topic, as background reading. We have prepared a worksheet to accompany the video.
Metis: An Introduction
This multi-part unit teaches how to make good decisions, take effective actions, and unlock the power of waging peace, through a compelling allegory drawn from Greek mythology.
The Allegory of Metis
The Muscles of Metis (The Muscles of Our Humanity)
Navigating Crisis
The Constellation of Peace
This four-part unit leads students into a deeper and more practical understanding of peace that helps them to navigate the storms of life, the uncharted waters of new technologies, and the turbulence of our national and global challenges. It has been designed for middle school but can be modified to suit older students and adults.
Navigating Crisis, Uncertainty, and Technology
This is a new unit with three short lessons (about 30 minutes each) for middle school kids, their teachers, and families, but also relevant for many high school students; it is designed to address many of the urgent emotional and relational issues students are facing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, presented in a format conducive to distance learning.
The lessons are richly illustrated in the following PPT slides (the text and illustrations are animated so please be sure to use “Presentation Mode” to get the full effect. The slides are large files so they might take some time to download.
NEW! Check out our
curricular resources for implementing Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
consistent with a Peace Literacy approach,
and our resources page to find other support materials for teaching Peace Literacy.
We upload new curricular materials regularly!
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