International Day of Peace takes center stage in this Grade 5 Holiday resource, using a reading passage about cultures of peace and conflict resolution to build reading comprehension, empathy, cooperation, and respectful communication.

Students explore how communities around the world promote peace through kindness, respect, empathy, cooperation, listening, shared problem-solving, community meetings, guided conversation, and fair rules. The passage also examines how festivals, meals, and art events can bring different groups together around shared hopes such as safety, fairness, and friendship.

What Students Practise

The activities move from reading for meaning to applying the ideas of peaceful conflict resolution. Students respond to multiple-choice questions about values, community meetings, shared problem-solving, fair rules, celebrations, unity, and the meaning of peaceful responses to conflict. True or false questions check careful understanding of the passage, including whether peaceful communities can still experience disagreements and how cooperation can strengthen trust.

Short-answer questions ask students to identify peaceful ways communities settle disagreements, recall shared human hopes connected to unity, and explain why focusing on the problem rather than the person can help during conflict. A matching activity, a Did You Know? section, and an extended-response essay give students additional ways to work with the lesson concepts.

Ready-to-Use Teacher Support

• Teacher Guide included within the Answer Key PDF
• Learning Objectives for the lesson
• Teaching Tips for classroom instruction
• Discussion Questions to extend conversation
• Common Mistakes to help address misconceptions
• Answer key for checking student responses

Classroom Use

Use this peace education worksheet during an International Day of Peace lesson, as independent reading practice, for guided classroom discussion, or as a written reflection on conflict resolution. The extended response connects the reading to a disagreement at school or in the community, asking students to consider how listening, focusing on the problem, and working toward a fair agreement could help.

This resource gives teachers a focused way to connect reading comprehension with practical ideas about peaceful communities. Rather than presenting peace as the absence of conflict, students examine peaceful ways to respond when disagreements happen and consider how cooperation across cultures can build trust and unity.