Schools
These pages provide a variety of resources that can be used during One World Week and beyond. Many of the resources are free, and fit closely with curriculum specifications in RE, Geography, PSHE, Citizenship, History, and other subjects.
Click here for teaching resources which cover a range of global citizenship and development issues, such as climate change, fair trade, human rights, and faith perspectives. Below are a selection on recent OWW themes with a focus on environment and peace:
2013 - More than Enough?
OWW will be assembling resources appropriate for the 2013 theme so please watch this space.
In the meantime many of the resources below would be adaptable and appropriate to some aspects of the theme.
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Explore other websites relevant to Sharing Destiny and how we might move towards One World, today and tomorow. This is a OWW-researched guide to a set of Links to other organisations' websites. It focusses particularly on environmental issues especially the challenges of climate change. It contains a section for schools -go to the Links page. (OWW cannot take responsibility for the content of websites not its own) |
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A drama "Saving our World" specially commissioned for OWW suitable for KS2 and upwards (download here) |
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A PowerPoint presentation on the issues involved in living for the planet and its people and acting for change - most appropriate upper secondary - year 9 upwards. Choose the version appropriate to your equiment from the Discussion Page |
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For more One World Week activities specifically related to Living for One World and Peace issues click here. Activities include cooperative games, quizzes, wordsearches, pledges and other material suitable for use in the classroom. |
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Islam and the Environment - a presentation for School assemblies for KS2 Download from Islamic Relief website presentations page here |
We also have a selection of faith resources that are suitable for schools, and a range of discussion tasks that can be modified for use in the classroom.
Peacing Together One World – Creating a Culture of Peace for Our Children
The following websites were chosen specifically because they fitted in with OWW’s 2010 theme ‘Peacing Together One World – Creating a Culture of Peace for Our Children’. You will find a selection of peace-related lesson plans, assemblies, books, activities, and other resources.
These sites also contain resources appropriate for the 2011 theme:
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Global dimension has a wide range of educational resources that are displayed with a summary of the content; a list of which courses and age groups the resource applies to; and how much the resource costs. It is worth noting that many of the resources are free and immediately downloadable. This is an excellent site for finding relevant work plans quickly and easily. |
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Oxfam These pages give you access to all of Oxfam's free online teaching resources. Packed with lesson plans, assemblies, case studies, and whiteboard resources, these pages offer free materials you can use and download now. Resources are selected by theme, age, type of resource or curriculum area. The following links are those most closely related to ‘Peacing Together One World – Creating a Culture of Peace for our Children’. |
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CAFOD CAFOD provides a selection of easy to download assemblies, quizzes and schemes of work to challenge and inspire pupils to take action for global justice. Go to CAFOD site here: |
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Learn Peace - The Peace Pledge Union The Peace Pledge Union hold the belief that nonviolence is better than violence and that building a culture of peace should be a priority in our world. The website looks at issues such as war and peace in world religions, the concept of pacifism, and ‘just war’ theory. |
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Global School Partnerships are a powerful, enjoyable, and exciting way of bringing global issues into the lives of young people, their teachers, families, and local communities. The programme aims to motivate young people’s commitment to a fairer, more sustainable world, and to support partnerships that promote global education through the curriculum. Support and guidance is provided to teachers and grants to schools to make the most of a school partnership as a learning tool. Funding is available for visits between partner schools to enable them to develop curriculum projects together based on global themes. You can find out more about the support offered, including workshops, guidance, publications, support networks, funding, and contacts by clicking on the link above. |
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Christian Aid Assemblies Two school assemblies dealing with the theme of peace. The first is about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, the second on building peace in Angola |
