Education Standards

Worksheets

Conflict Brainstorming Page (PDF)
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Research Awareness and Resolution (PDF)
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Contemporary Conflict Criteria and Rubric (PDF)
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Definitions


con·flict
  • to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  • to fight or contend; do battle, a prolonged struggle; strife. –noun
  • controversy; quarrel: conflicts between parties.
  • discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: a conflict of ideas.
  • incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: a conflict in the schedule.
  • Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.

res·o·lu·tion
  • a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group.
  • a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
  • the act of resolving or determining upon an action or course of action, method, procedure, etc.
  • a solution, accommodation, or settling of a problem, controversy, etc; the resulting state.
  • the mental state or quality of being resolved or resolute; firmness of purpose.
  • the act or process of resolving or separating into constituent or elementary parts.
  • Optics. the act, process, or capability of distinguishing between two separate but adjacent objects or sources of  light or between two nearly equal wavelengths.
  • Music .
       a. the progression of a voice part or of the harmony as a whole from a dissonance to a consonance.
       b. the tone or chord to which a dissonance is resolved.
  • reduction to a simpler form; conversion.
  • Medicine/Medical. the reduction or disappearance of a swelling or inflammation without suppuration.
  • the degree of sharpness of a computer-generated image as measured by the number of dots per linear  inch in a hard-copy printout or the number of pixels across and down on a display screen.

Lessons (For Reference)

Art 21- lesson on War and Conflict: featuring Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Walton Ford.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/war/lesson3.html

SFMOMA ArtThink Lesson: Political Messages through Symbols
http://www.sfmoma.org/artthink/lessonintro.asp?lessonid=21&lessoncategoryid=1&sg=a&menu=a

American Public University
http://www.historycentral.com/index.html


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