World Peace Game

The video by John Hunter on World Peace Game is a lecture by a fourth grade teacher.  This teacher gives his fourth grade students the opportunity to play "World Peace Game." This teacher gives away all power in his classroom.  He says he is nothing more than a timekeeper.  These fourth graders have the opportunity to try to figure out real life problems, such  as world peace, global warming, war, etc. These students are in charge and have the opportunity to try to use critical thinking skills to figure out solutions to these real problems.  This is the type of  learning that actually sticks with students.  They remember the answers that they came up on their own.  These students spend a lot of time to work on this long project negotiating and working together.  This is the type of project I would like to have in my own future classroom.  This is what students remember years down the road and are able to use in their real life.