Community
One of the objectives of the Nobel Peace Laureate Project is to promote a greater awareness of the contributions that peacemakers have made throughout history. By learning more about the Americans who have received the Nobel Peace Prize, we can learn from their contributions to world peace.
The Nobel Peace Laureate Project developed biographical profiles for each of the 24 American Peace Laureates. A brief profile appears on each of the Nobel Peace Laureate plaques in the Nobel Peace Park. received the Nobel Peace Prize. Comprehensive biographical profiles of the American Peace Laureates are available on our website. To learn more about each of the laureates, Click Here.
Classroom
NPLP has also compiled and developed materials for classroom instruction. The work was made possible by a grant from the Jubitz Family Foundation, Portland, Oregon. High School lessons were created for NPLP by Nancy Newman (secondary social studies teacher), Jerry Ragan (high school history teacher) and Jessica Tuerk (social studies teacher). Middl School lessons were created for NPLP by Nancy Newman, David Mandelblatt and Laura Slemp.
These lesson plans contain biographical essays, classroom activities, vocabulary, and discussion questions. Click here to access the American Recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each profile contains a “.pdf” file which has been structured as lessons for students.
Schools who have used the lessons find that the biographical profiles supplement and deepen the study of U.S. History. As Dr. Lura Pierce said, after introducing the on-line American Peace Laureate curriculum into her lesson plans,
“People have called for a course in school called PEACE 101.
This could be it.”
Individual files can be obtained on the Webpage for each Laureate.
Each lesson contains the following:
I. Biographical Essay about the Nobel Laureate
II. Suggested Classroom Activities
a. Introduction/Warm-Up
b. Discussion Questions (Levels 1, 2, 3)
c. Vocabulary
d. Activity
e. Technology Option
III. Resources
Click on the file names to obtain the:
• Introduction for the teacher – ( 4KB )
• Introduction to the Peace Prize – ( 10KB )
• Assessment Activities – ( 22KB )
• Introduction to elementary lesson plans – ( 44KB )
Click on the Nobel Laureate’s name to go to their Webpage, or to download a “.pdf” lesson file. [Requires Acrobat Reader, available free here.]
Laureate Biographies and Study Materials
