Ready-to-use materials for teachers, across many stages of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence – exploring nuclear weapons, peace, and global citizenship.
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Scotland’s Parliament and Nuclear Weapons
A comprehensive module for Senior Phase students examining nuclear deterrence, Trident, devolution, and the Scottish Parliament’s position. Includes teacher notes, pupil worksheets, and presentation slides.
Our booklet covers topics such as climate and resource related conflicts, adverse effects from nuclear tests and uranium mining, radioactive and toxic discharges, the close links between civil nuclear power stations and weapons programmes, and the large ‘carbon bootprint’ of the military.
Nuclear Weapons: Yes or No? is aimed at late primary to early secondary school pupils. Each unit is based around a core booklet, while video and further challenges can be selected at the teacher’s discretion.
The UK’s nuclear weapons system, ‘Trident’, is based on the Clyde at Faslane, 25 miles (40.23 km) from Glasgow.
Our ‘Trident’ module and video are a good introduction to the debate around nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Weapons: Yes or No? is aimed at late primary to early secondary school pupils. Each unit is based around a core booklet, while video and further challenges can be selected at the teacher’s discretion.
This module looks at how pressure groups like CND and Greenpeace operate, their rights and responsibilities, and how they campaign for change. Includes practical challenges and links to Modern Studies and English at National 4, 5 and Higher.
Teachers of RME, Modern Studies or History can book a free presentation with video testimony from ‘Hibakusha’ survivors of the Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings
Produced by Peace Education Network to coincide with the Hollywood film, this resource covers scientists incuding Einstein, Heisenberg,Szilard and Bohr and may be of particular interest to science departments.
The Doomsday Clock shows how close the world is to catastrophe. Created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, it counts down to “midnight”, representing global disaster.
” I am the History teacher at Farr High School, Highlands. I picked up a copy of the education packs from the SATH conference.
This was a very useful resource and I have used it with a third year class as a prelude to our Cold War topic. As an introduction
to the topic the pack worked well. It gave new information but encouraged opinion and the debate format worked well. I thank you for the worksheets which were logical and accessible to all members of the class. ”
” Thank you to our PES Volunteer for the outstanding presentation delivered to our class! The session was highly engaging, informative, and thought-provoking, effectively capturing the students’ attention and inspiring meaningful discussions on peace and conflict resolution. PES Volunteer demonstrated exceptional knowledge and an ability to connect with the audience, making the complex topic accessible and relevant. We are grateful for their visit and highly recommend them as a guest speaker to other schools! We look forward to inviting them back next year! ”
” Rosneath Primary and ELC is located on the banks of the Gare Loch, with Faslane Naval Base closely located. As part of Our Local Community Topic our P6/7 learners wanted to explore further the fact that nuclear weapons are kept within their local community. PES Volunteer visited the school and supported the children to explore their views on nuclear weapons in a sensitive and age appropriate way. A fantastic class visit. ”
