Subject: Peacemakers around the World

Grade Level: 2nd – 3rd

Time frame: Approximately 12 days/ Two Weeks

Subject Matter: Cross-curriculum- Art, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts      

 

TEACHER INFORMATION:

Sandra Tapia Diaz

St. Mary of the Lake

AAM affiliation: DePaul University

stapia@depaul.edu

Honda, Jon. Sadako Statue.  Seattle, WA. www.sadako.org

 

 

 

Rationale:

 

The principle of this unit plan is to introduce students to peacemakers around the world and recognize their contributions to our world.  It will be addressed through making peace in our culture, nature, community, school, and family.  In addition, students will be learning about the following peacemakers: Rigoberta Menchu, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Cesar E. Chavez, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Princess Diana, Dorothy Day, and Sadako Sasaki.  This Unit will aid students to understand and expand their knowledge about peacemakers around the world and how to make peace within our community, culture, school, family, and nature.  We will be utilizing children's literature books, the library of congress website, and other informative websites.

 

Teaching students about peace will allow them to understand the need to make peace in our world.  Students will learn the importance of making peace and how everyone in society plays a role in peacemaking.

 

Having students learn about and how to make peace will stir them to make peace in their own world.  In addition, students will be able to generate their own personal perspective about what peace means and represents to them.

 

Goals:

Major Goals:

           

  1. Students will learn to have a broad idea of peace.
  2. Students will develop a sense of what peace means to them.
  3. Students will be recognize diverse peacemakers.
  4. Students will understand how each global peacemaker made a difference in our society.
  5. Students will depict what peace means and represents to them in their community, culture, school, family, and nature.
  6. Students will capture ideal moments, objects, people, and/or nature images utilizing technology (photography), such images should have a representation of peace.
  7. Students will develop ideas and ways to make peace.
  8. As a final product students and teacher will create an art wall exhibiting students' photography art project.

 

Curriculum Standards (ISBE):

 

3.C.2a Write for a variety of purposes and for specified audiences in a variety of forms including narrative (e.g., fiction, autobiography), expository (e.g., reports, essays) and persuasive writings (e.g., editorials, advertisements).

 

3.C.2b Produce and format compositions for specified audiences using available technology.

 

16.B.1a (US) Identify key individuals and events in the development of the local community (e.g., Founders days, names of parks, streets, public buildings).

 

16.B.1 (W) Explain the contributions of individuals and groups who are featured in biographies, legends, folklore and traditions.

 

16.B.1b (US) Explain why individuals, groups, issues and events are celebrated with local, state or national holidays or days of recognition (e.g., Lincoln's Birthday, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Pulaski Day, Fourth of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving).

 

12.B.1a Describe and compare characteristics of living things in relationship to their environments.

 

13.B.1d Identify and describe ways that science and technology affect people's everyday lives (e.g., transportation, medicine, agriculture, sanitation, communication occupations).

 

13.B.1e Demonstrate ways to reduce, reuse and recycle materials.

 

Content Outline:

I.                    Introduction

a.       What is peace?

b.      Overview of project

c.       Taking pictures

d.      Expectations of Pictures

e.       Teacher picture examples

 

II.                 Cameras

a.       Technological usage

b.      Taking pictures

c.       Distribution of cameras

 

III.               Nature Theme

a.       Introduce Cesar E. Chavez

b.      Museum/Botanic Garden

c.       Introduce Rigoberta Menchu

 

IV.              Community Theme

a.       Introduce Dorothy Day and Martin L. King Jr.

b.      Community contributions of peacemakers

c.       Peace in our community

d.      How students identify themselves with such peacemakers?

e.       Oral Histories

 

V.           School Theme

a.       Sadako Sasaki

b.      Outcomes of War

c.       A thousand cranes art project

d.      Mahatma Gandhi

e.       Gandhi’s legacy

 

VI.              Cultural Theme

a.   Nelson Mandela

b.  Nelson’s contributions in Africa and abroad

c.   Apartheid System      

 

VII.            Family Theme

a.   Mother Theresa and Princess Diana

b.  How these peace makers made a difference?

c.   Compare and contrast Mother Theresa and Princess Diana

 

VIII.         Final Project

a.       Cameras

b.      Develop film

c.       Pictures and written captions

d.      Student Work-Wall of pictures (Art project)