Annotated Peace Resource List

Stewart begins with information about early African explorers of North America, and includes important facts new to many of us who have not been required to study this part of our nations history. The book is organized into six sections: Great Migrations; Civil Rights and Politics; Science, Inventions and Medicine; Sports; Military; Culture and Religion, with entries of several paragraphs each. More than 200 photos.

Dale Le Fevre is a leading authority on New Games. In many of his workshops, traditionally adversarial groups have come together to play and have fun: Arabs and Israelis in the Middle East; Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland; mixed races in South Africa; and Serbs, Croats, and Muslims in Croatia and Serbia. This book includes the most popular New Games (including many recently found games) from more than 25 years of presenting.

A Gamefinder helps you select the ideal game for your situation, plus tips to help you lead the games. Stories of firsthand experiences show how New Games can have in building cooperation, teamwork, and common understanding.

Over 150 games that include skills to resolve conflict, enhance communication, build self-esteem, appreciate nature, and laugh together. The games are indexed according to age level, amount of activity, group size, and location.

"Illustrations from the period, dates, key historical figures and geographical development of the country are included. Hakim adds to American History studies by including materiathat illustrates daily life, social attitudes, contemporary concerns and dilemmas, political climate and trivia. Using sidebars Hakim raises questions to stimulate an analysis of how the facts presented relate to various aspects of history. ... A 1999 Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner." (Eileen Kuhl,Parents' Choice)

In these entertaining pages, Loewen takes a region-by-region tour of the United States, pointing out historical oddments as he travels. For example, a massacre of white pioneers by Indians commemorated in Almo, Idaho, never took place, Loewen continues; neither did many other such events. Indeed, he insists, "throughout the entire West between 1842 and 1859, of more than 400,000 pioneers crossing the plains, fewer than 400, or less than .1 percent, were killed by American Indians." And if you were to visit Helen Keller's Georgia birthplace, over which a Confederate flag flies, you would get the impression that Keller had been an unreconstructed daughter of the Old South, whereas she was in fact an early supporter of the NAACP. And so on.

After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, Loewen concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. Loewen reveals that:
-The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
-Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth.
-Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations .
-The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts.
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses. Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship

A full subject index includes thematic references to annotated books. See at www.dpi.state.wi.us/pubsales .

"Our mission is to empower teachers, children and families with the values and skills necessary to create a culture of peace." Includes curriculum and resources for Kindergarten through teenage years.

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A Training and Implementation Guide. Clear step-by-step outreach, training and program maintenance procedures, Developmentally appropriate concepts, materials and activities, 12-hour peer mediation training model, Extensive appendices with forms, evaluations, parent communications, etc, Contains all necessary worksheets and handouts, 182 pages, perfect bound
Table of Contents & Training Agenda: charityadvantage.com/communityboards/images/High%20-%20C%20A.pdf

This revised and updated edition turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing his trademark reversals of perspective, Zinn--a teacher, historian, and social activist for more than 20 years--explains, "My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that; it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all)--that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth."

"Everything is connected" came to these writers as they first sought to create curriculum around issues of "sweatshops" and "child labor." The book includes background readings, lesson plans, teaching articles, role plays and simulations, student handouts, interviews, poems, cartoons, annotated resource lists, and teaching ideas. Articles and activities are geared for upper elementary students through high-school aged and older. Some can be adapted. Chapters are titled: Legacy of Inequality: Colonial Roots; The Global Economy: Colonialism Without Colonies; Global Sweatshops; Kids for Sale: Child Labor in the Global Economy; Just Food; and Culture, Consumption, and the Environment. We used an activity from here for a Bible School workshop on housing--working with the idea of many starting with less and some starting with more, and where does it lead? (Where might it lead?)

Sponsored by the Southern Law Poverty Center, this site is a treasure trove for educators and parents. Its free (to educators) semi-annual magazine (Teaching Tolerance) and excellent teaching resource packets offer the best in ideas to help us all get along. Check out their resource list of curricular materials for all grades. www.tolerance.org/teach/resources/index.jsp

Teaching Tolerance Magazine is available free to educators. See details at www.teachingtolerance.org

Through stories and analysis, Howard looks to his own identity to discover what it means to be culturally competent "white" teachers in racially diverse schools. Author draws from 25 years of experience as a multicultural educator as well as from collaboration with students and colleagues from many cultures.

Integrating racial identity is a different process for people of color and “white” people in this society. Tatum affirms the need to understand the process and to talk about it. Includes chapters on understanding black, white, Latino, American Indian and Asian Pacific American identity.

Designed for use with groups of children or adults, offering ways to hear values, demonstrate skills, and express oneself in safety.