The Peace Process 2001 project invites you to use this web site as a curriculum for your students. Student of all ages may contribute as individuals, small groups, or classes. This integrated curriculum currently includes history, language arts, social science, art, science, mathematics, and technology. Following are some ideas for students of different levels. Please send us your ideas for lesson plans and projects that use this web site.
Elementary: Students may submit drawings and writing about conflict resolution, getting along with others, people they admire as peace makers in their school, community, or world. See Ishi, Man of Peace in the Essays from the Present section and the Peace for Kids. section
Middle School/ High School: Students may submit art, photographs, drawings, poems, essays, or creative writing, about issues such as racism, the civil rights movement, conflict resolution, war, historical events such as the Holocost, or people both local and famous who they see as peacemakers. Students may learn to program and illustrate with art or photography their work for the internet. Creative writing such as the fictional account of a colleague of Jane Addams as she created Hull House is included in the Past Essays section. Also see the class poem on Martin Luther King written by a middle school class at Carnegie Middle School in California, the essay on Rosa Parks by 6th grader Judith Sussman, and the essay onJohn Lennonby high school sophomore Bryan Newman.
College/Adult: Submit quotes or personal essays about personal experiences or people you admire. See The Bald Eagle, by Arthur Golden, born 1922, or What a Wonderful Day for a Walkabout Linus Pauling by Steve Oshatz, born 1940, in past essays.