Arkansas Peace Week offers great youth resources for schools and youth programs.
Peace Week began our school programs in 2017 when Pax Christi Little Rock (PCLR) worked with school counselor Mildred Calhoun to develop a peace curriculum for Little Rock’s Rockefeller Elementary. The following year we worked with Volunteers in Public Schools (VIPS) and Little Rock School District to expand these non-violence lesson plans and resources for elementary age students. Today over 20,000 students participate in Arkansas Peace Week from all over the state: from Bella Vista to McGehee and Blytheville to Eldorado.
Here is a summary of programs resources available:
- Peace Week Pledge of Non Violence
- Peace Week Curriculum Ideas
- Peace Week Lesson Plans
- Peace Week Ideas for you School
- Peace Week- Student Activities
- Volunteer with Little Rock School District during Peace Week
- Dr. King’s Pledge of Nonviolence Lesson Plans
- Peace Week Lesson Plans from Quakers in Britain
- Peace Week Coloring and Work Sheets
- Nonviolent Action Coloring Pages that portray historic nonviolent struggles with study guides and discussion questions.
- Nonviolence Means … Posters and lessons plans
- 10 Ways To Grow Peace flyer
- Toolkit with a book list, posters, and resource doc compiled by Pace e Bene/Campaign Nonviolence
- Arkansas Arts Council: The Arts in Education (AIE) program
- Peace Week Art Contest
- Peace Week Essay Contest
Videos
- Online Film: Woodruff: A lesson of non-violence
- 5D’s of De-escalation short videos. Do some role plays afterward or explore different scenarios.
- Erica Chenoweth’s 12-min TedX Talk on Why Civil Resistance Works.
- Metta Center for Nonviolence short animations
- A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict file series
- Reveille Isgrig from MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History reads “The General” by Jane Charters
- What Does Peace Feel Like reading by children
- THV11’s Craig O’Neill reads children’s books for Peace Week
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