Throughout our Sharing the Planet unit of inquiry, we've been working on representing peace. Many of us know the word, but explaining exactly what it is provided quite a challenge.
We jumpstarted our thinking by bringing in artifacts from home that represent peace for us. We spoke from our own perspectives and connected around ideas and feelings like happiness, safety, comfort, cooperation, and quiet.
We jumpstarted our thinking by bringing in artifacts from home that represent peace for us. We spoke from our own perspectives and connected around ideas and feelings like happiness, safety, comfort, cooperation, and quiet.
We also completed one of our Harvard Project Zero Visible Thinking Routines called 'Colour-Symbol-Image'. This helped us to refine and compare some of our ideas. We also contrasted this work with a 'Colour-Symbol-Image' we'd done for the word CONFLICT.
Once we'd had an opportunity to express our own ideas with colours, drawings, stories, and artifacts, we considered some other children's perspectives with the book What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky. We used our five senses and discussed what other children around the world think peace looks like, sounds like, smells like, tastes like, and feels like.
Many of us wrote a response in our Feelings Journals about what peace feels like to us.
What do you think peace means?
Many of us wrote a response in our Feelings Journals about what peace feels like to us.
What do you think peace means?