March Forth

for

Peace
A No Place for Hate School Wide Event
March 4th, 2016

Curriculum Guide

Dear Peaceful Panther Professionals,

Drum roll pleasehere is your No Place for Hate, March 4th for Peace curriculum
resource guide! Included are the schoolwide PEACE countdown activities, the
schedule of events and other optional resources. We are hoping you find this a useful
tool, and we know that all of you are working hard with our panthers on academic
skills as well as social emotional skills. It is our goal to try to integrate these
important life skills into this schoolwide event. Looking through the grade level
TEKS for February, we saw many possibilities in the subjects of language arts and
social studies that could easily be incorporated into this topic, and we know that the
expert teachers at Zilker will be able to do this seamlessly! For the PEACE
countdown week, we included a variety of activities ranging from low prep to more
involved student work. These activities can be done during morning meetings, SEL
lessons, at transition times or throughout your academic day. Of course, these are
only a springboard, choose whatever works best for your classroom and students.
In addition to the PEACE countdown activities, we are asking that each class make a
minimum of 5 banners or posters to carry during the march. If your students would
like to make individual signs or a sign to carry with a partner that would be
awesome too! Poster making could be done during the week as part of a PEACE
countdown activity or in advance as your schedule allows. If you have any
questions or would like more resources, feel free to contact us! We appreciate your
hard work in this endeavor.
Peace, love, and harmony,
Elizabeth and Tammy

March 4 for Peace

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Schedule of Events
7:45 Prepping for Peace!

Get pumped up with announcements

Gather up your signs and head to the front lawn
Meet at the front of the schoolfind your grade level!
(There will be volunteers with signs to show you where to go)

8:00 School Wide Welcome

Introductory comments and singing the peace song together will happen
after we are all gathered on the front lawn.

8:10 Marching Madness Begins

The March begins! Fifth grade leads the waywe will be walking on the
sidewalk and bike lane, and then heading up to walk around the track
together.

8:40 Peace Out

The Peace March will end after we all do lap around the trackthere will
be music playing, we will have some final comments and sing the song
one last time. Classes will then head back to their rooms.

PTA FUN RUN: Students will be do two laps at their WOW

time for the Fun Runeach teacher will have stickers to
give at the end of the laps to thank them for participating
in the fun run!

Countdown to PEACE
February 29th-March 4th

P is for Panthers are allies

E is for Empathy
A is for Actively working for peace
C is for Celebrate diversity
E is for Everyone working together!
*March 4th is also a school spirit day
wear your Zilker t-shirt for the Peace
March!

Countdown to PEACE Classroom Activities

Please choose at least one activity to do each day-modify as needed for your
students, but focus on that topic in some way. Students are learning a song
for the March in music class, if you could also find time to practice during the
week that would be music to our marching ears!

Monday, February 29thPanthers are allies!

Talk about a time someone was an ally for you or when you were an
ally
Make a list of statements that could be used if you were to be an
upstander
Create a skit demonstrating how to be an ally

*All students need to sign the resolution of respect (as part of the
requirements for No Place for Hate) and post outside your classroom bulletin
boardthe resolution will be made for you, all you have to do is get your
kiddos sign it

Tuesday, March 1st Empathy

Students and can turn and talk about what empathy is and share
exampleshow does empathy relate to creating peace?
Brainstorm a class list of how empathy helps create a peaceful planet
Write or perform a persuasive speech as to why empathy is important

Wednesday, March 2nd Actively working for peace

Discuss ways you can be a peacemaker, not a peace breaker

(examples attached)
Create a t-chart of peacemaker and peacebreaker actions
Share important historical figures who actively worked for peace and
discuss commonalities.

Decorate signs for our walk!

*may have been done prior, 5 signs

per class please!*
Signs could include words that relate to peace (friendship, diversity,
empathy, respectyou can also pull up examples of images from MLK
marches)

Thursday, March 3rd Celebrate Diversity

Pay your classmates a compliment about something that makes them

special (beyond physical attributes)
Independently create a web listing all of your unique qualities, talents
or interest, students can share their webs with each other to find
commonalities and differences

Complete the class self-portrait activity and discuss diversity in your

classroom. Make the portraits into a book

Friday, March 4th- Everyone working together!

Teachers go over expectations and then everyone meet at the front by

8:00!
Pinterest + Peace = Possibilities

Picture PEACEWhen you close

your eyes and
think of Peace,
what do you
see? Feel?
Why is it
important?
Picture a
peaceful world!

Can we say edible garden

project? Or a peace
paperweight!

Peace is not an FMNV!

And is that fractions?? The
integration never stops!

Who doesnt love mail? Send

something in the US mail or
even a teacher mailbox at
Zilker?

Who doesnt love the 60s? Students

can write/draw images of peaceON
A PEACE SIGN! What will we think
of next?

Have students wrinkle up the

paper heart and then try to flatten
NO
it out. Discuss how words or
actions can harm somebody. If you
want to be REALLY dramatic you
could cut it up and tape back it
back together! You could even do
wrinkled Ralph and use the
shape of personbut we dont
recommend cutting that one up

There are tons of books to support

this topiccreate a story grammar
chart to compare several picture
booksadd a final column where
students can note the ongoing
theme/message of Peaceif you do
this with five or more books, get a
Starbucks card on us! Not even

Piece Peace Poems (each student writes one line so the

poem is constructed by the whole classor add
illustrations and make a class book) Bonus points if you
teach them i before e except after c. 4th grade teachers
will love you for it

In the month of
February, we celebrate
Black History,
Presidents Day and
Kindness week! More
activities to tie in than
we know what to do
with

Parents love hand print art!

Peace & Parents-check!

Students could write their own traits

or classmates could. This could be an
icebreaker at our next faculty
meeting!

Dont we all love a costume? Make

a hat out of sentence strip with a
peaceful message for the March!

You know youve got to get a bulletin

board up in Februarywhy not use
that multicultural construction
paper and peace writing prompt?
Boom!

Who needs to make a copy? Not us!

This would be simple for student to
make in a journal! You can even
substitute any other important
historical peacemaker

Empathy is walking a mile in

someones shoes
AND we are doing a march
coincidence?
We think not!
We bet something super cute
can be done with a blank
shoe

Using the Frayer Model with

PEACE vocab (peace, empathy,
diversity, inclusion, allies,
cooperation, respect)
Now its just getting crazy!

If you havent used the puzzle

maker die cut in the workroom,
nows your chance! Puzzle pieces
could focus on diversity, famous
peace makers, images of peace

A pinwheel with characteristics

of peace?? A peace pinwheel???
Just stop it!