Project Peace teaches ten lessons to all SAD 6 students in Kindergarten through fifth grade (30 minutes) during the school year. Lessons are taught by school staff.
Project Peace Curriculum
Lesson Overview
Grade Kindergarten
1. Introduction to Peace
2. Listening
3. Helping
4. Appropriate Language
5. Feelings
6. Being Responsible
7. Similarities and differences
8. Sharing
9. Belonging
10. Differences
First Grade
1. Appreciation of Likenesses and Differences
2. Appreciation of each person’s unique qualities
3. Feelings
4. Teasing
5. Solving Problems (part 1)
6. Solving Problems (part 2)
7. Being Responsible
8. We are all part of one school community
9. We all have Value
10. Cooperation
Second Grade
1. Respect for self and others
2. self-concept: differences and likenesses
3. Caring about others
4. teasing vs complimenting: the negative and the positive
5. using “I Messages” to solve conflicts peacefully
6. prejudice – being different or A Peaceful World
7. stereotyping roles of boys and girls
8. prejudice and differences, families
9. differences around the world
10. who I am makes a difference
Third Grade
1. Talking it out
2. up-downs
3. ways we are the same and different
4. male-female stereotypes
5. teasing
6. learning about anger
7. physical differences – physical disabilities
8. talking it out
9. writing a “Peace Poem”
10. Peace wall hanging
Fourth Grade
1. Each person is special
2. Teasing and bullying (1)
3. Teasing and bullying (2)
4. Dealing with strong emotions
5. Talking it out
6. we celebrate our uniqueness
7. we celebrate of differences
8. civil rights team visit
9. cooperation, an aid to peace
10. celebrate project peace
Fifth Grade
1. appreciating differences
2. teasing and bullying
3. anger and conflict
4. talking it out
5. stereotypes
6. what is a Peacemaker
7. respect: an important aspect of Peace
8. when conflict escalates
9. civil rights team visit
10. celebrating project peace
Documents for Staff and Parents:
Project Peace Vision and Outcomes: Project Peace envisions a positive, secure, respectful school environment in which all persons are valued for both their similarities and their differences.
Documents for Staff:
Survey reporting cover sheet: Project use this cover sheet to note totals from each survey you distribute. Send or report comments along with this cover sheet with each set of surveys you distribute.
Staff Survey: This form is for ALL school staff to complete in May. Project Peace school leaders may copy, distribute, tally, note comments, and complete a survey reporting cover sheet then send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
Parent Survey: This form is for schools to copy and distribute to parents in March. Schools may tally results, attach a survey reporting cover sheet, note comments and send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
Survey for Kindergarten: This form is for Project Peace teachers to administer to Kindergardeners graders in May. Tally results, attach a survey reporting cover sheet, note comments and send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
Survey for grade 1: This form is for Project Peace teachers to administer to first graders in May. Tally results, attach a survey reporting cover sheet, note comments and send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
Survey for grade 2 and grade 3: This form is for Project Peace teachers to administer to second and third graders in May. Tally results, attach a survey reporting cover sheet, note comments and send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
Survey for grade 4 and grade 5: This form is for Project Peace teachers to administer to fourth and fifth graders in May. Tally results, attach a survey reporting cover sheet, note comments and send to district Project Peace Coordinator.
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