This document outlines a project-based learning plan for teaching students about conflict resolution. The project involves four stages: an introduction where students discuss how conflict has impacted their lives, global research where they explore the causes and effects of global conflicts, a role-play case study stage, and a local challenge where students work to improve conflict resolution in their own community. Students will research conflicts, learn resolution strategies, identify biases, articulate opposing viewpoints, and collaborate to develop solutions. They will implement their solutions, reflect on the outcomes, and publish a video and reflections on their work. The goal is for students to gain understanding of conflict and improve conflict resolution skills through an authentic learning experience.

1. Conflict Resolution
Project Based Learning for Global Education

2. Big Idea
CONFLICT

3. Essential Question
What are the factors that
contribute to conflict?

4. Challenge
Improve conflict resolution
at your school

5. Sources of Inspiration
Challenge-Based Learning
Axis of Hope
Challenge 20/20
MUN
Apple challenge-based Learning
Environments

6. Students will know...
The historical context of current global
conflicts
The opposing arguments of current global
conflicts
Conflict Resolution Strategies
Sources of biased information and their
origins

7. Students will be able to...
Collaborate with a group of peers
Identify bias
Articulate opposing arguments
Utilize conflict resolution strategies to
define common agreements
Tech skills

8. Stage 1: Introduction

9. Introduction
Avatar and My Cultural History (Google
Site)
Students respond and share recorded
videos: How has conflict impacted my life?

10. Stage 2:
Global

11. Research and Interviews
Why do conflicts develop?
How are people, politics, and nations
affected by conflicts?
Guiding Questions:

12. Teacher directed
resources and activities
Engagement, background
knowledge,
understanding
Exposure to Global
Conflict

13. Research
Authentic Interviews
(teacher supported)
Share via the project
google site.
Explore a Global
Conflict

14. Skills Needed
developing interview questions
professionalism and bias
organization and time management
tech skills for website

15. Sharing and Making
Connections
Student comments on google sites page
Student Reflection in a Blog Post
make connections among different conflicts
conflict resolution strategies

16. Stage 3:
Role Play

17. Case Studies

18. Stage 4:
Local

19. Challenge
Improve conflict resolution
in your community

20. Format
Students working in groups
Cooperative Group Contract
Individual Daily Journal - Accountability
Product: Solution Video and Reflection
Audience: Cooperating Class, School
Community

21. Process
Identify local conflicts
Guiding Questions, Research
Guiding Activities
Identify a Solution
Implementation
Publishing results and reflection

22. Guiding Questions
Armed with the big idea, the essential
question, and the challenge, students can
now generate their own guiding questions
to identify the knowledge they will need to
understand to develop a solution to the
challenge.
Students conduct thorough and thoughtful
research as this sets the foundation for
determining an suitable solution.

23. Guiding Activities
Local research to discover the particular issues,
advantages, disadvantages, needs, and aspects of
their community connected to the topic.
Conduct surveys and opinion polls that can be used to
gather information from the stakeholders.
Expand their scope to include interviews or interactions
with experts from around the world. Teacher
supported.

24. Identify a Solution
Each group selects a single solution to develop and
implement: action steps, needed materials and where
they will obtain them, responsibilities for each group
member, any relevant timing considerations,
documentation, appropriate audience, how success will
be measured, and so on.
All of these decisions are organized into a work plan.

25. Implementation
After identifying their solutions, the
students will implement them, measure
outcomes, reflect on what worked and
what didn’t, and determine whether they
made progress in addressing the challenge.
When implementation is complete,
students share their work with the rest of
the world.

26. Publishing Results and Reflections
Students build their solution video and record their
reflections. The three-to-five minute solution video should
include a description of the challenge, a brief description
of the learning process, the solution, and the results of
the implementation.
Students keep individual written, audio, or video journals
throughout the process.
As a culminating event, students can be provided a
series of prompts for final reflections about what they
learned about the subject matter and the process.