World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements interweaves the story of John Hunter, a teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his students' participation in an educational exercise that he created entitled the World Peace Game.
The film follows this eight-week process whereby the children perform the roles of leaders of fictional countries as they attempt to extricate themselves from a myriad set of military, economic, environmental and political crises, with the ultimate goal of achieving world peace.