There are currently twenty-two lessons suitable for global education, geography, history, English, psychology, social sustainability, legal studies and social/values education.
Areas covered
THE ORIGINS OF CONFLICT
- The construction of hatred
- Dangerous ideas
- Dangerous situations
- The rule of law
- Moral inhibitions
- The social effects of war
- Go back where you came from
- Demonising others
- Vital vocabulary
GENOCIDE
- How did it happen?
- A simple plan
- A strangeness of mind
- A genocide story
- Vital vocabulary
THE AFTERMATH OF GENOCIDE
- After the genocide
- How to begin building a future
- Vital vocabulary (aftermath)
JUSTICE AND RECOVERY
- What is justice?
- Gacaca: restorative justice in action
- Compensation and reconciliation
INTRO AND OVERVIEW
- Introduction to Rwanda
- What have you learned?
What exactly do I get?
Each lesson contains a detailed lesson plan, presentation slides and handouts for printing or photocopying.
"The construction of hatred" lesson plan: page 1
"The construction of hatred" lesson plan: page 2
First page of lesson plan from "Aftermath of genocide"
Handout from "Gacaca-restorative justice in action"
Presentation slide from "Justice and Recovery"
Presentation slide from "The origins of conflict"
Handout from "Go back where you came from"
Presentation slide from "Justice and recovery"
What format are the resources in?
All the lesson plans, presentation slides and handouts come as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. That means consistent, reliable formatting across computer platforms.
Downloading the files
Depending on the lessons you’ve bought, when you uncompress the downloaded zip files, you’ll have a set of folders something like this. (This is the full set).
In each lesson
In each lesson folder, you’ll typically find three PDFs:-
- a handout for printing
- the lesson plan itself
- a set of presentation slides
Using a PDF like a powerpoint
It’s really easy! With your PDF open in Adobe Reader, hit Command L (MAC) or Control L (PC) to put the PDF into fullscreen mode. (Or go to the View menu and select Full Screen Mode).
Use the arrow keys or PageUp and PageDown keys on your keyboard to navigate through the PDF.
To get out of Full Screen Mode, just hit Escape.