Educational Materials
One day, a teacher was showing art by Iraqi students to a third grade classroom in Minnesota. A boy looked up and asked in a shaky voice, “You mean, there are children in Iraq?”
In response to this innocent, heart wrenching query, the Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project (IARP) has created educational materials for school students, youth and adults.
Here’s how the project works:
Read over the lesson plans for ideas you like.
Read the background articles on schools, education, and water in Iraq.
Download the PowerPoint of your choice and select the presentation format that works best for you. (Note: All PowerPoints include Speaker Notes that can be accessed via the directions, “Using Presenter View.” All PowerPoints include scripts. Some PowerPoints have audio included and so require only one computer to show.)
Show the PowerPoints to your students or club members.
Take Action!
- With Letters for Peace, enlist your group members to write a letter to an Iraqi peer.
- With Water for Peace, motivate your audience to raise money to help put a clean water system in an Iraqi school.
Join us in helping to create an atmosphere of trust, respect and understanding between the young people of America and the young people of Iraq.
Open channels of communication so that students might share their hearts with one another and find that what we have in common is greater than what separates us.
Assist future generations of Americans to see beyond war into nonviolent means for settling conflict.
Click here to learn more about the Iraqi & American Reconciliation Project
