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= The Road to Peace: Living Together in the 21st Century =

The theme of your final project in Grade 6 Humanities for 2011 is 'The Road to Peace: Living Together in the 21st Centu ry.'  Throughout this project you will be investigating why people fight and how people try to create peace, and you will develop a way for others to explore and understand what you learn about these critical questions.

The Project Challenge:
•Investigate conflicts to learn why people fight and the ways that we try to bring about peace.

•Create a way to demonstrate the 'skills and understandings' below by designing a project to spread your new understanding of peace and conflict to a global audience.

Essential Questions:

 * Why do we fight?
 * How can we create peace?

Discussion Questions:
As with any good Essential Question there are many sub-questions that must be explored and discussed. Some examples are:
 * What do people need to survive?
 * Is peace simply the absence of fighting?

You will have a chance to add more to a list of sub-questions on your own 'Planning your Project' page.

**Skills and Understandings:**

By the end of the project you must be able to demonstrate the following:


 * A clear understanding of __different forms of conflict__ __.__
 * A clear understanding of __historical reasons why people fight.__
 * An awareness of different __ways that people have maintained peace.__
 * Use of different technologies to __promote an understanding of 'peace and conflict'__.
 * Create a rubric for me to assess how well you demonstrate these skills and understandings.