Teach Peace resources
The Peace Education Network shares teaching materials via TES.com.
Teach PEACE SECONDARY
Teach Peace Secondary offers over 50 cross-curricular lessons from a range of organisations including Pax Christi, Amnesty International, Values Based Education, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Facing History & Ourselves, Corrymeela, and War Child.
Topics include challenging antisemitism and Islamophobia, conflict transformation, religion and peace, the human rights effects of the arms trade, how to nurture inner peace and lots, lots more.
Download the brochure to find your next Teach Peace lesson.
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Teach Peace Primary
Building on the remarkable success of the first edition, the Peace Education Network are delighted to present the second edition of Teach Peace.
In Teach Peace you will find ten assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers, and reflections on peace and peacemaking for 5-12 year olds.
Whether we are Remembering for Peace [11 November], flying a kite for Nao Roz [21 March], or reflecting on the witness of Austrian peacemaker Franz Jägerstätter [21 May] the school year is full of opportunities to use this pack. Teach Peace will help ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and peacemakers in your school.
The entire resource is free to download below. Hard copies of Teach Peace are available from the Peace Education Network for £5. Contact us
Downloads
Full Teach Peace Pack (pdf)
INDIVIDUAL ASSEMBLIES
Remembering for peace (pdf)
Slideshow: Remembering for peace (pptx)
Nonviolence in action: Mama Zepreta’s house (pdf)
Slideshow: Nonviolence in action (pptx)
We all live under the same blue sky (pdf)
Slideshow: We all live under the same blue sky (pptx)
What is peace? (pdf)
Slideshow: What is peace? (ppt)
Think before you act: the legend of Beddgelert (pdf)
Conflict resolution: A tale of two mules (pdf)
Mule Mask (pdf – prints best on A3)
The Christmas Truce (pdf)
The importance of disobedience (pdf)
Barriers to peace (pdf)
Slideshow: Barriers to peace (ppt)
Sadako and the thousand cranes (pdf)
OTHER DOCUMENTS
Foreward (by Don Rowe) (pdf)
Introduction – Creating a more peaceful school – Next Steps (pdf)
Peace calendar (pdf)
Prayers and reflections about peace (pdf)
ARCHIVE
Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons was an assembly in the original Teach Peace Pack (2012). The script is available here:
Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons (pdf)
Global Dimension Teachers' Choice 2022
We are pleased to announce that Teach Peace has received a Global Dimension Teachers' Choice 2022 award.
Global Dimension said:
'This pack by the Peace Education Network is one of the most comprehensive and it’s no surprise that it was one of our teaching communities’ favourite resources this year... This is a pack perfectly placed to ease fears, foster hope for the future and develop moral compasses.'
Find out more here