Teacher and Student Resources to Prepare For Summit

Section 1: Purpose of the Summit

Section 2: Overview of the Summit

Section 3: How to Prepare Students for the Summit

Section 4: Resources and Website Links

Section 1: Purpose of the Summit

Students will have opportunities to: 

  • Learn more about freeing the world from nuclear weapons. 

  • Make connections with peers and experts who are working for a nuclear weapons-free world. 

  • Gather ideas for taking action in order to raise awareness about nuclear weapons in your home community and around the world.

  • Initiate action projects for a nuclear weapons-free world with peers from outside your home community.

  • Collaboratively create and ratify a Youth Nuclear Peace Treaty, to be presented to the United Nations Non-proliferation Treaty Review Committee, meeting in 2020.

Teachers will have opportunities to:

  • Have opportunities to network with, and learn from colleagues and experts working for a nuclear weapons-free world.  

  • Share and learn pedagogical strategies and initiatives to inspire students to take action to free the world from nuclear weapons.

  • Develop a sense of well-being, efficacy, and empowerment for a more hopeful future.

Section 2: Overview of the Summit

In preparation for the summit the committee has organized content into eight research topics and guiding questions. Student teams with their teachers, from 7 schools in Manitoba, participated in 3 full-day training sessions. At the first session, each team randomly chose one of the topics listed above to research and present at the summit. One team from California has agreed to present one of the topics.

The goal is to create student facilitator experts for each topic. They will facilitate discussion of their topic with the remaining students at the actual summit in October, 2019.

  • Topic 1 Nuclear Energy and Power River East Collegiate Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Topic 2 Environmental Impacts Children of the Earth High School Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Topic 3 Role of Education in Nuclear Disarmament and Peace Lord Selkirk Comprehensive Secondary School Selkirk, Manitoba

  • Topic 4 Economic Costs Dr. Olga Mohan High School Los Angeles, California

  • Topic 5 Human Costs Miles MacDonnell Collegiate Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Topic 6 Overcoming Barriers to Global Peace Maples Collegiate Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Topic 7 Global Opportunities Vincent Massey Collegiate Winnipeg, Manitoba

  • Topic 8 History of Nuclear Weapons Development St. John’s High School Winnipeg, Manitoba

The exhibit Everything You Treasure : For a World Free from Nuclear Weapons (SGI and ican) will be shown during the summit in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Resources for this exhibit can be found at the following link. Students in Manitoba have already had access to this exhibit for their presentations.

Students will be divided into groupings called learning villages (6 students per village). Each school team member will be assigned to a different learning village.The eight research topics (above) for the summit will be presented to the students in learning villages as outlined in the program.