Lesson 8: Pinwheels for Peace Background for Teachers:
Peace One Day education aims to advance learning in the areas of conflict resolution, peace and sustainability, using Peace Day – 21 September – as a focus. Partnering with like-minded organisations and education specialists allows this to become a diverse and engaging process, providing young people with an ever-evolving range of projects across a number of subjects and platforms.
Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan at Monarch High School in Florida, as a way for their students to use Peace Day to express their feelings about what is going on in the world and in their lives.
The first Pinwheels for Peace were installed Purpose of the Lesson:
• In this lesson, students will discuss the world around them in order to reflect on the levels of conflict and violence in our everyday life. As a result of this, students should consider what public visual statement they would like to make about creating a more peaceful planet, and how they would creatively express this on their pinwheel. The culmination of this can be the creative installation of students’ pinwheels in a location where their beauty and purpose can be fully appreciated by the school, and the wider community..
Lesson Objectives:
• To create a pinwheel that represents a student’s thoughts and feelings about peace, anti-bullying and non-violence.
• To create an art installation designed to inspire public reflection on peace.
• To be involved in a growing worldwide art installation project on Peace Day – 21 September.
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on 21 September 2005. In its first year 500,000 pinwheels were planted. In 2012 the number had grown to 4,000,000 pinwheels and the project continues to grow.
A pinwheel, also known as a windmill, is a childhood symbol – it reminds us of a time when things were simple, joyful, peaceful. Pinwheels can be minimal or very complex – imagination, creativity and a mild breeze are the only requirements. They can be easily made using just about any type of malleable material, from copy paper, to thin plastic or even lightweight metal; the stick of the pinwheel can be as simple as a pencil or metal rod; and the size of the pinwheel can be as small as an inch in diameter or as large as you can make it.
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