Find your next lesson! Teach Peace Secondary contains over 50 lessons authored by diverse organisations, free to download via TES Resources. Use this brochure to select one for you and your students.
The sequel to the award-winning primary pack, Teach Peace Secondary offers a huge range of cross-curricular lessons from Peace Education Network members including Amnesty International UK, War Child, Peacemakers, Values Based Education, Pax Christi, Facing History & Ourselves UK and more. Categorised by inner, interpersonal and global peace, the lessons cover themes including war and peacebuilding, violence and nonviolence, conflict resolution, identity and inclusion and much more.
A* Teach Peace Secondary* lesson from Greenham Women Everywhere.
'You can’t kill the spirit’ was sung by women from across Britain as they struggled against the placement of nuclear cruise missiles at Greenham Common. Discover what motivated the biggest female-led protest in Britain since the Suffragettes. Through contemporary news media and literature, discussion, drama and zine-making learners will explore tactics used by the protestors, the conditions they faced and consider their success.
Curriculum links, England
Citizenship | GCSE (AQA) | 2. Life in Modern Britain |Citizen voice | examples of how citizens working together, or through groups, attempt to change or improve their communities
History | KS3 | challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day | Britain’s place in the world since 1945
History | KS3 | challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day | social, cultural and technological change in post-war British society
SMSC - Moral | | interest in investigating and offering reasoned views about moral and ethical issues and ability to understand and appreciate the viewpoints of others on these issues.’
Art and Design | KS4/GCSE | actively engage in the creative process of art, craft and design in order to develop as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds
Religious Education | A-Level | Edexcel: Religion and Ethics, Topic 3.1: War and Peace
Citizenship | A Level | Unit 4: Global Issues and Making a Difference (Human rights; Conflict and its resolution).
Curriculum links, Scotland
Curriculum links, Wales
A Teach Peace lesson from Inscape animations.
Follow the roots of our family trees down, down into the past, and eventually they join.”
Using the animation from Inscape, explore how we are all connected across time, land and sea. Learners will explore terms like genealogy, refugee and migration and what it means to be connected today.
Creative expression | Citizenship and action | STEM
How does the arms trade work?
Lesson 2 from Teach Peace comes from Amnesty Interational UK (amnesty.org.uk).
Amnesty International campaigned successfully for a global Arms Trade Treaty
(2014). Yet from London to Hong Kong, millions of weapons are bought and sold around the world, often to countries already fighting wars or attacking their own people. Students can investigate the roots and impact of the arms trade and how active citizens should respond.
History & Society | Citizenship and action | Talking and listening
A Teach Peace lesson from Peace Jam UK (peacejam.org.uk). Drawing on Peace Jam’s Compassion in Action Curriculum, for Creating Inclusive Communities, learners will discover the life and work of the Dalai Lama, a world leader for peace, and practise the empathy and compassion he teaches.
Wellbeing | Religion and ethics
In this lesson from Scientists for Global Responsibility, learners explore Physics, History and Citizenship.
Bohr, Chadwick, Oppenheimer, Szilard, Fermi, Meitner, Einstein -
What did the people who made possible the first atomic bomb want to happen? Scientists in the first half of the 20th Century were making strides in theory and experimentation to understand atoms:
How are atoms structured? What forces hold atoms together? Can the atom be split? And what happens if we do?
By the 1940s, the answers were a matter of life and death. In this lesson, learners will study the scientists, what they discovered, and what they wanted to happen with the atom bomb and what they did for peace.
Covers the development of the model of the atom (common content with chemistry)
The Atomic Scientists is a lesson from Teach Peace secondary, a pack of 50 lessons from the Peace Education Network.
A Teach Peace lesson from the Development Education Centre, South Yorkshire (DECSY).
Nonviolence has been a force for change around the world, proving effective in unlikely struggles for peace and justice. The aim of
this lesson is to enable learners to explore some disagreements around the definition of nonviolence. Learners will also explore their
own views about nonviolence.
Citizenship and action | History & Society
A Teach Peace lesson from the Welsh Centre for International Affairs (wcia.org.uk).
War, inequality and environmental degradation – the magnitude of the problems facing the world often leave us feeling powerless. Learners will look at some examples of young people taking action, consider what’s important to them and what they can do to create positive change.
Citizenship and action | Talking and listening
A Teach Pece lesson from St Etherlburga’s.
Learners will understand what it means to ‘refuse violence’ and choose active
nonviolence. They will explore different forms of violence in order to become equipped to deal with it and make the right choices.
Talking and listening | Wellbeing | Religion and ethics
A Teach Peace lesson from the Peace Pledge Union.
Why did some people choose to be conscientious objectors in World War I and
what did this mean for them? What does
military conscription mean?
Learners will reflect on their own principles and consider when they would be prepared to take action if confronted with military conscription.
History & Society | Religion and ethics
Talking and listening
A Teach Peace leeson from Facing History & Ourselves UK.
How do we connect with the past? How have we memorialised war? Students will look at examples of memorials from World War I to Iraq and consider their messages, reflecting on how they think we should remember war. Facing History & Ourselves uses the lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.
3. Under pressure: how do pressure groups work for change?
Learn from the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (cnduk.org/ peace-education), the group that gave the world the famous symbol for peace, how pressure groups operate, and create your own in the classroom!
Learners will decide an issue to campaign on and design a citizenship action, taking on the same role of professional campaigners.
Citizenship and action | Talking and listening
A Teach Peace lesson from Journey to Justice (journeytojustice.org.uk).
Looking at five very different stories of young people aged 6 to 18 who took action for peace and racial justice, we consider the values that drove them, the tactics they used and the reasons they succeeded.
Our aim: to galvanise learners to consider the world they’d like to live in and grassroots action they can take.
Citizenship and action | Talking and listening
A Teach Peace lesson from Diversity Role Models.
What does LGBT+ stand for? What are the different legal protections for LGBT+ people in the UK and around the world? Students will analyse how they can improve LGBT+ rights at their school.
Wellbeing | History & Society | Talking and listening
A Teach Peace lesson from Pax Christi UK (paxchristi.org.uk).
This session explores military spending and security. Looking at the national budget and how much is spent on the military, students are encouraged to discuss whether this makes us more secure and explore what would make the
world safer.
Citizenship and action | History & Society | Numeracy
England
Mathematics | KS3/KS4 | Statistics: construct and interpret appropriate tables, charts, and diagrams, including frequency tables, bar charts, pie charts, and pictograms for categorical data, and vertical line (or bar) charts for ungrouped and grouped nume
Citizenship | GCSE (AQA) | 1. Citizenship skills, processes and methods | Present their own and other viewpoints and represent the views of others, in relation to citizenship issues, causes, situations and concepts
SMSC - Moral | | interest in investigating and offering reasoned views about moral and ethical issues and ability to understand and appreciate the viewpoints of others on these issues.’
PSHE | KS3 | Living in the wider world | L20. to explore social and moral dilemmas about the use of money, (including how the choices young people make as consumers affect others’ economies and environments)
Scotland
Curriculum for Excellence: Responsible citizens |
Numeracy | Number, money and measure | MNU 4-07aI can choose the most appropriate form of fractions, decimal fractions and percentages to use when making calculations mentally, in written form or using technology, then use my solutions to make comparisons
Social Studies | | SOC 4-01aI can evaluate conflicting sources of evidence to sustain a line of argument.
Wales
The four purposes | ambitious, capable learners who: are questioning and enjoy solving problems
Humanities progression | Enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future.
Humanities progression | Informed, self-aware citizens engage with the challenges and opportunities that face humanity, and are able to take considered and ethical action.
Cross-curricular skill | be able to use numbers and solve problems in real-life situations
A Teach Peace lesson from Legacy of War. Images of war can lack respect for the subjects and leave viewers feeling alienated. Giles Duley’s photographs and texts document survivors of war, telling individual stories of love and fortitude that inspire hope. Learners will see the human side of war. Through discussion, they will consider the power of sensitive images and their role in highlighting
the human cost of conflict.
Creative expression | Citizenship and action
Using the short film ‘Unknown Ravens’, from doumentary maker Sema Basharan, learners will find out about conscientious objection in Britain during World War I and World War II.
They will explore the reasons why some people might refuse to fight in wars and
reflect on their own position.
This Teach Peace lesson from Child Rights International Network (CRIN) invites learners to explore poetry on a citizenship theme.
Potent Whisper is a London based Spoken Word artist. The lesson introduces his piece, The Rhyming Guide to Joining the Army!, and gives students the opportunity to respond to it as unseen poetry. The poem also raises important questions about under-18s recruitment to the armed forces and the way it is promoted to young people.
Creative expression | Citizenship and action
Winner of Global Dimension Teacher’s choice Award 2022.
Building on the remarkable success of the first edition, the Peace Education Network are delighted to present the second edition of Teach Peace.
In Teach Peace you will find ten assemblies, follow-up activities, resources, prayers, and reflections on peace and peacemaking for 5-12 year olds.
Whether we are Remembering for Peace, flying a kite for Nao Roz , or reflecting on the witness of Austrian peacemaker Franz Jägerstätter the school year is full of opportunities to use this pack. Teach Peace will help ensure peace is a key theme in our children’s education and help you to celebrate peace and peacemakers in your school.
In this Teach Peace lesson from Scientists for Global Responsibility, learners will combine ethics and the science to assess nuclear weapons. Using Nuclear weapons: a beginner’s guide to the threats from Scientists for Global Responsibility, learners gain an understanding of the science and the effects of nuclear weapons and use that insight to inform their moral reasoning.
Using the six sections of the Beginners Guide, learners will explore
1. What is a nuclear weapon?
2. the basic science of nuclear weapons
3. How many nuclear weapons are there?
4. How much destructive power do the nuclear-armed nations have?
5. A nuclear attack: the immediate effects
6. A nuclear attack: longer-term and global impacts