Queremos a Paz

Queremos la Paz

Volem la Pau

We want Peace

1. Project description and summary

This is a multilingual project where students can publish short writings on what they feel and think about violence, from their own experience or from news they have seen on TV. It is a place to tell everybody we want worldwide peace.

This project could begin as a group work discussion and go on as a composition on violence and peace. Students' productions should be  brief, if possible, since readers won´t necessarily master the target language.

These compositions will be published in this web site and, later on, students can exchange comments on what they´ve written.

Students and teachers can join in any language.

2. Required materials

You only need access to the Net,  a word processor and a will to communicate with people from different backgrounds.

3. Project timeline

This is an open project and join whenever you want. It should be advisable to look for a partner on the coordination lists before joining.

4. Target age group

The project is addressed to all ages.

5. Project language

Being a multilingual project, just agree on the language you are going to exchange your work with.

6. Curriculum connections and objectives

This project has been planned to give students the chance to reflect on violence, war and peace. Starting from their own  experience, students ought to share thoughts and opinions with students from other places in the world and know about other cultures.

Even though it relates to different curriculum areas,  it´s mainly about the following points:

- learning to think.

- understanding other people´s written thoughts (even in other languages).

- writing about feelings and thoughts.

- learning and sharing values.

7. Project resources

In Kidlink, there are other related projects on Peace:

• "Peace Project (Serenity Quest)": Talking about violence in students' neighborhood  https://www.kidlink.org/kidspace/start.php?HoldNode=8131&HoldNav=614
• "Artworks for Peace": space created in Kid Art to gather  the emotions, the fears and the hopes of students, all that through the universal language of art, and to help youth from all over the world to understand one another. (Different projects) https://www.kidlink.org/kidspace/start.php?HoldNode=1428&HoldNav=1884Other

8. How to join the project and participate in it

Teachers should register through the project moderators by sending an e-mail to David Donat (ddonat@xtec.cat) or Manoel Araujo (maf@epmail.com.br) with this information:

• Teacher's name and e-mail address
• School, city, country
• Target language and any other language used for communication.
• Students' age and grade 
• Number of participating students in every age range

It would be advisable for teachers to subscribe to any of the Kidlink mailing lists for adults in order to contact possible partners. You can do that here: subscribe to Kidleader lists

Students are allways asked to answer the 4 Kidlink questions before participating in kidlink's projects. There they can choose language on the top bar. Students who do this will get a login and password that can be used to post their own productions in this site.

After registration students could begin with  a group  discussion and go on writing a composition. It may take time to revise and edit their productions before they post them to the project page in KidSpace. Finally, it is very important that students read writings published by others and post comments on them, as a way to discuss about what they have written, their ideas, thougths, feelings... Teachers can also coordinate each other (through kidleader lists) in order to make their students discuss by using chat rooms.

Productions can be published in KidSpace with illustrations (if desired). In this case, participants have to obey copyright laws and only use images with expressed permission to be used on the web. We discourage the use of clipart in projects. Moreover, teachers placing student images on the web should have permission from parents to do this. Images should be no wider than 350 pixels and must be in .jpg or .gif format.