Gateway to Peace Museum Exhibits

A short explanation of each learning center

Peace for Me

Self esteem, uniqueness, emotions/feelings, self worth/value

• Celebrate Your Family (activity) - You are special because your family is special. Share your family.
• Masking How I Feel (craft) - Discover why people hide their feelings. Make a mask reflecting your feelings.
• Emotion Commotion (activity) - Understanding our emotions and learning self control.
• Facemaker (computer) - Everyone is unique, everyone has worth. Build a face and animate it.
• Dealing with Feelings Bingo (game) - Identify our feelings and value the feelings of others.
• Body Tracing (craft) - Identifying peaceful and unpeaceful feelings within us.
• Leave Your Mark on the World (activity) - Everything that we do leaves a mark for someone or something. What can you do?

Peace for Us

Relationships, respect/acceptance, cooperation/teamwork, communication, conflict resolution

• Bridge to Peace (activity) - Teaches steps to problem solving in relationships.
• Block Talk (activity) - Enhances listening and communication skills.
• Peace Plays Theater (activity) - Puppet role play to find good resolutions to conflicts.
• Humano Harambe (activity) - Teaching children to work together toward a common goal using small wooden blocks.
• Peace Walk (activity) - Practice teamwork and communication by walking together on skis.
• Diversity Daze (activity) - Riding in or pushing a wheelchair through an obstacle course.
• Dough Peace (craft) - Molding signs of peace with a partner using non-dominate hand.
• Double Trouble (activity) - Learn how a disability can help us identify others abilities.
• Hoola Hoop (game) - Cooperative skills of “listening” and “doing” can create great fun.

Peace for Everyone

Human rights/justice, understanding, diversity, global community

• Name Game (activity) - Learning each others names in a creative fun game develops listening skills.
• Languages of Peace (activity) - See the word “peace” in 50 different languages.
• We All Share the Same World (craft) - Create flags representing the world.
• All-in-One Language Fun (computer) - Experience the beauty of five languages.
• Just Like Me (activity)*- Using a quilt, traditional cultural uniqueness and appreciation is fostered.
• Just Like You Costumes (activity) - Using clothing from different countries, cultural diversity is appreciated.
• Children of the World (puzzle) - Explore cultural diversity through children in other countries.
• Friendships are Diverse (activity) - Acceptance of our heritage helps us to communicate our feelings about diversity.
• Help 2 Open Channels of Peace (activity) - Identifying our feelings can help us to channel our peaceable feelings into the whole world.

Peace for the Planet

Stewardship, ecology, interconnectedness

• Water Matters (activity) - See the effects of various agents on ground water quality. You can help!
• Animal Puppets (activity) - Use puppets to role play how animals cohabitate with humans and deal with elements in their environment.
• Rainforest (computer) - Learn all about the rainforest and its’ creatures.
• Papermaking (craft) - Recyclables create rather than destroy our environment.
• Endangered Animals (puzzle) - See the endangered animals and learn how you can help.
• Build a Rainforest (mural) - Learn how to rebuild or save a rainforest.
• North American Animals (puzzle) - Learn about the different animals living on our continent.
• Paws for Peace (activity) - Identifying animal prints encourages us to learn about the habits of animals.

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