Classroom+Ideas

Here are ideas for teaching students about friendship and peace

> I did a friendship unit several years ago. (From Lisa) Here's a few ideas from that unit:
 * We made a book with partners called "Friendship, Friendship What can It Be?"
 * We made puppet pals and acted topics related to friendship such as, ways friend can work together while as playing a game, ways to ask to be in a group, and the wrong and right ways to ask another child if you can play with a toy that child is currently using.
 * We also made friendship necklace. The students cut out shapes and then wrote (with invented spelling) different ways to make a friend or something that would harm a friendship.
 * One other thing we did was to make a Friendship Fruit Salad. Everyone brought in one piece of fruit and we put them all together to make the salad. We discussed the idea that the salad was a metaphor for friendship. Each fruit is good own its own, but it’s so much better when it’s combined with many others.

**Classroom Activities about Friendship and Peace** (compiled by Barbara)
> and teacher resources about Multiculture and Festivals from PeaceTree > Students create calendars marking special days that celebrate peace and illustrate them with ways to apply peace in their own lives.They can use Google Calendar or other calendar programs and upload their calendar to a website. Adapted from TeachPeaceNow.org > Activities and lesson plans on global issues: fair trade, equitable distribution, AIDS, child labor, the environment and more. From Peace Child International > K-3 students learn that differences make the world a more interesting place. From Teaching Tolerance > Lesson plan takes children on a trip around the world, making five stops to learn about the climate, geography and culture. Includes stories from each place. From Discover Education > Students make recordings of songs from their family and heritage. Students may make instruments from other parts of the world, and share as a podcast with other classes. From the Educator's Reference Desk > Students can create a comic strip to identify confrontational issues within their school and visualizes solutions. They can use a program like ComicLife and then upload to a website. Adapted from Teaching Tolerance >
 * Classroom Activities
 * Peace Calendar
 * World Lesson Plans
 * What can we learn from a Box of Crayons?
 * Storytelling around the World
 * Our Music Festival
 * Cooperative Comics