Step 3: Educational PowerPoints

Download the PowerPoint below 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.

After completing this step, you may move on to Step 4: Take Action! (Letters for Peace or Water for Peace), or be done with the project. Please let us know how it went!

View options for PowerPoint presentations

PowerPoint presentations can be downloaded below or at our space on Slideshare.

Letters for Peace Downloads

Here are 5 slideshows for you to choose from depending on the age of your audience, your interest in including art from Iraqi children and awareness of war. The slideshows are augmented with suggested lesson plans, background reading and the academic standards (below) that these lessons meet in Minnesota.

  • Original Letters for Peace Grades 1-6 — Our first response to peace letters from Iraqi students. Shortest version. No references to war. PowerPoint • Script
  • Letters for Peace Grades K-6 —Sensitive to students from military families. Has some photos of war. PowerPoint • Script
  • Letters for Peace Grades 7-Adult —Sensitive to students from military families. Has some photos of war. PowerPoint • Script
  • A Child’s Heart Grades K-3 —Includes art from Iraqi children. Limited images of war. PowerPoint • Script
  • A Child’s Heart Grades 4-8 —Includes art from Iraqi children. Selected images of war. PowerPoint • Script

Academic Standards: A Child’s Heart Grades K-8 —Art • Letters for Peace Grades 1-12 —Language Arts • Letters for Peace Grades 1-12 —Social Studies

“Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.”

~Mohandas Gandhi

Water for Peace downloads

Here are slideshow for grades K–6 and 7–Adult; an introductory letter to you, as project presenter, to the water project; academic standards this project meets in MN; and a Water for Peace flyer you can reproduce for outreach efforts.

You can also read articles here on current water problems in Iraq.

Introductory Letter

  • Water for Peace Grades K-6 —Sensitive to students from military families. Has some photos of war. PowerPoint • Script
  • Water for Peace Grades 7-Adult —Sensitive to students from military families. Has some photos of war. PowerPoint • Script

Academic Standards: Water for Peace Grades 1-12

Service Learning at MN Dept of Education

Water for Peace Flyer (PDF format)