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What does peace feel like? Clare Morrison, Grade 2 & 3 Lesson 3: What does Peace Feel Like? Comprehensive Unit Lessons: Lesson 1: What is Peace? Lesson 2: The Peace Book Lesson 4: What does Peace Feel Like? Part II Lesson 5: Peace for MLK Lesson 6: Peace Begins with You
 * Lesson 3: What does Peace Feel Like?**

Standard(s): 3a, 3b, 3c, 4b Materials: Book: __What does Peace Feel Like?__ by V. Radunsky Time: 45/60 minutes Goals: Students will establish what peace means to them at different levels: What is peace at school, in the classroom, personally, in the family, in the world. Students will demonstrate awareness of other people’s emotions, perspectives and a respect for human dignity and differences through literature and others’ perceptions of peace. Students will consider how to peacefully contribute to their community. Additional Materials: Lesson 3: __What does Peace Feel Like?__ Divide a large piece of chart / butcher paper into six sections to make a chart /table. In each section write one of the following questions: What does peace feel like? What does peace smell like? What does peace sound like? What does peace taste like? What does peace look like? After you have completed the project, have your students sign their names in the last box. Describe Lesson Steps: Give students time to brainstorm /share with a partner /table team what they think peace looks, sounds, feels, tastes, and smells like before eliciting responses in your Gathering Circle. In your Gathering Circle ask each student to share one sensory response, for example, “I think peace feels like …” Read aloud __What does Peace Feel Like?__ Discuss and share while reading. Activity/Assessment(s): Students create a class peace collage using pictures, words, etc. from magazines. These pictures should illustrate /represent peace for each of the 5 senses. Students should be able to say what the picture says to them about peace and why it belongs /represents that sense. An example of this: One of my students found a picture of a woman presenting a certificate. My student asked me if the picture could represent feeling proud, and if peace could feel like being proud of yourself. Naturally, I was tickled that she found a picture that triggered this sensory response in her. My only request for this activity was for my students to be able to explain their thinking about the picture.