Print the Peace - Intermediate Conflict Inquiry Unit

Entry Event

• Print the Peace - Project Sheet

It’s Peace Week in your school and your principal is sponsoring a "Spread the Peace" contest. In this contest, you must create a newspaper that demonstrates effective, peaceful, conflict-resolution strategies. Your newspaper must have an original name and you will work with a partner assigned to you. Set up your newspaper using a Design Set in Microsoft Publisher software or other publisher software. You will present your newspaper to a panel of administrators, counselors, and/or members of the community. Your newspaper must include the following sections:

Include an Entertainment Section

• Current events about two of your favorite celebrities in which conflict resolution strategies resulted in positive consequences, and an event where conflict led to negative consequences.
• Review and recommend two movies that focused on positive conflict resolution strategies.
• Review and recommend two songs that focus on positive conflict resolution strategies.

Include a Kids Corner

• Create a game, puzzle, or other interactive activity that uses characteristics of conflict resolution and its terminology.
• Draw, paint, or use the computer to illustrate how a conflict situation was positively resolved.

Include an Editorial Section

• Write a poem, song. or rap on peace, tolerance. or nonviolence.
• An advice column that gives three different conflict situations that a teen may face and three responses for the positive resolution of the conflicts.
• A one-page essay or story that discusses the consequences of violence or intolerance in society.

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