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 lesson from Protection Approaches and Circles of Salam. During this lesson, learners will consider how anti-Muslim hate, Islamophobia, and other
forms of identity-based violence occur in society through the exploration of a personal story. Learners will then consider how we strengthen our schools and communities by making them a more open, inclusive and welcoming place for everyone.
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
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
Taking action for climate justice is a Teach Peace lesson from Quakers in Britain.
People all around the world are taking action for climate justice. This lesson takes a close look at different challenges and approaches ranging
from the Amazon’s indigenous defenders to divestment campaigners in Glasgow. Leaners will become expert in one case study and present it
to their peers, evaluating diverse actions.
Along the way, they will explore the data behind climate justice and concepts like the Global North and South and climate adaptation.
Citizenship and action | Geography | History & Society | 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.