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CURRICULA
ELEMENTARY RESOURCES
Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools For Empowering Young Children
Louise Derman-Sparks
This book urges teachers to examine their biases and learn how they may influence children and reduce, handle, or eliminate their biases.

A Child's Right: A Safe and Secure World
Dorothy Hoffman, Cleo Simonette, and Mary Eileen Sorensen
Your students will "adopt" an infant from another region of the world. They will take personal responsibility for their new "sibling". This curriculum is based on the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

Creative Conflict Resolution - More Than 200 Activities for Keeping Peace in the Classroom K-6
William Kreidler
A book which helps build the peaceable classroom by teaching children to respond creatively, constructively, and nonviolently to conflict.

Getting Along: Activities for Teaching Cooperation Responsibility and Respect
Dianne Schilling
Sixty-five easy to use activities, including discussions, role-plays, games, simulations, and worksheets.

Human Rights for Children: A Curriculum for Teaching Human Rights to Children Ages 3-12
Virginia Hatch, et. al.
This book is structured around the ten fundamental principles derived from the 1959 UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child.

Keeper's of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruhac
A book which inspires elementary children and helps them feel part of their surroundings, presented in an interdisplinary approach.

Learning the Skills of Peacemaking
Naomi Drew
This book focuses on acceptance of self and others, communication, conflict resolution, and understanding intercultural differences.

Make a World of Difference
Office of Education
Global Education with a peace and justice emphasis is the theme of this book.

A Manual on Nonviolence and Children
Stephanie Judson, ed.
This manual elaborates on five elements which contribute to an atmosphere of affirmation; the sharing of feelings, information, and experiences, a supportive community, the solving of problems, and the enjoyment of life.

One World, One Earth
This book is based on the premise that we must expand education to include the 4th "R", (Social) Responsibility. Chapters include ideas to raise consiousness, to spark discussions, and to build community.

The Peaceful Classroom
Charles A. Smith, PhD.
This book contains 162 easy to use activities to teach pr-schoolers friendship, compassion, kindness, and cooperation. Each activity is organized by skill and age.

Peacemaking Creatively Through the Arts: A Handbook of Educational Activities and Experiences for Children.
Phyllis Vos Wezeman
Ideas from the arts abound...banners, clowning, dance, creative writing, drama, games, music, storytelling, and more!

Teaching Young Children in Violent Times
Diane E. Levin, Phd.
Two helpful sections are in this book with curriculum geared to preschool through grade 3. The first section establishes classroom foundations for establishing peace, and the second gives practical suggestions and lesson plans.

Young Peacemaker's Project Book
Kathleen Fry-Miller and Judith A. Myers-Wall
These activities introduce young children to the concept of peacemaking: including global citizenship, interpersonal relations, and the environment.

Middle School Resources

Educating for Global Responsibility: Teacher Designed Curricula for Peace Education, K-12
Betty A. Reardon
Thirty-Five curriculum samples, grouped according to grade level, aimed at envisioning the possibility of a peaceful world through the education of young people

A Right to Rights
Dorothy Hoffman and Mary Eileen Sorensen
This curriculum looks at the UN as an organization. In addition, it looks at the UN's work with human rights issues, particularly those pertaining to children.

We: Lessons on Equal Worth and Dignity, The United Nations and Human Rights
Roanne Elliot
This curriculum offers an opportunity for students to discuss the issues related to race, ethnicity, and religion in a sensitive and caring manner. It features the work the UN does to create a more tolerant world.

High School Resources

Can't We All Just Get Along?
Mark Niedergang and Martha McCoy
This book encourages you to engage members of your community or organization in a dialogue on racism and tensions among racial ethnic groups.

Instructional Guide to Teaching About the United Nations
A cross-disciplinary approach to teaching about the work of the United Nations. This book includes recommendations for classroom activities in all of the major disciplines.

Understanding the U.N.
This United Nations curriculum introduces students to the importance of the UN through lesson plans that teachers can easily integrate into existing courses.

U.N. Peace Action Plan: Cambodia, A Case Study
Mary Eileen Sorensen assisted by Walter Enloe and Ken Simon
This module is a series of lessons focusing on the role of the peacemaker, arbitrator, or third party in personal, community, and national relations.

Uprooted Refugees in the United States
David Donahue and Nancy Flowers
This resource curriculum teaches the history of refugees in the U.S., international legal standards and practices, and current refugee issues. It leads students to investigate their own communities and encourages community service

WE: Lessons on Equal Worth and Dignity, the United Nations and Human Rights
Ken Simon
Special features of this curriculum include activities on ethnocentric thought and behavior; racism and the First Amendment; the power of language, symbols, and music; a study of the Peace School in the Middle East; and an on-going diary assignment reflecting on one's own "tolerance" development.

BOOKS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances
Lisa Albrecht and Rose M. Brewer, eds.
Twenty-four writer/activists celebrate the transformation of feminism in these success stories of women's alliances

The Challenge of Human Rights Education
Hugh Starkey, ed.
This is a compilation of essays which provide a comprehensive overview of human rights. It is published by the Council of Europe

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean, C.S.J.
A first hand testimony that places a human face on the death penalty issue.

Educating for Human Dignity
Betty A. Reardon
This book takes on a developmental approach to teaching human rights to various age levels, and includes appropriate activities.

I, Rigoberta Menchu
Rigoberta Menchu
Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and shared her story with others as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment.

Making Sense of Human Rights
James Nickel
A book with philosophical reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This book explains, defines, and defends the contemporary understanding of human rights.

Rethinking Schools
This book makes a clear connection between critical teaching and effective classroom practice. We can promote values of community, justice, and equality - and build academic skills

Through Indian Eyes, The Native Experience in Books for Children
Doris Seale and Beverly Slapin, eds.
This is an excellent resource for classroom teachers and librarians. It includes articles, stories, poetry, reviews of books dealing with Native Americans; and one of the best bibliographies of children's books on Native Americans.

Who Belongs Here?
Margy Burns Knight
One boy journeys from the Cambodian jungle to the U.S. He enjoys the freedoms, but at times is treated like an alien.