John Hunter- The World Peace Game- Assignment 3

• The World Peace game- 1977.
• If you are able to touch their mind, great! But if you are able to touch their heart, the mind will follow.
• The students use their thinking skills to help combine the countries that are against one another politically, militarily , and economically.
• It helps students learn and understand what is going on in the world.
• The teacher noticed how much progress the students developed in the game that he added more controversy to bump up the standards.
• This game helps boost up the students confidence.
• It teaches the students many lessons: how to deal with other people, how to voice your opinion, how to use your talents, how to work as a team, how to be generous, how to be a team player, how to manage things in life.
• "So many people trying to do so much good!"
• Gifted class teacher.
• He noticed all of his teachers and his parents come out in his teaching styles.
• All the problems of the world on a piece of ply-board for the students to solve.
• All countries have a name, some are poor, some are rich, each one has their own issues, pros and cons.
• There is a book with each issue that needs to be discussed and solved.
• A student is designated to rule the country as prime minister and students have different roles in each country.
• The teacher put the students in real life situations and expected them to solve the problems on their own. Only with the help of the other 8 and 9 year old students in their group.