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Peaceful Expectations Program Overview
Peace Education Program for Elementary & Middle School Students
Peaceful expectations Peace Education Program:
A fun filled, hands on, creative peace experience for elementary and middle school students. Fantastically fun, challenging, and educational Childsafe peace modules have been created with peace in mind for kids and flexibility with ease of implementation for teachers. Peace modules can be used any time during the school year and incorporated into any number of subjects. Peaceful expectations lessons will engage and captivate students creating peace experiences that will live with them for years to come. Each year Childsafe will provide new information that will keep programs up to date and interesting.
This program is provided free of charge to schools with one condition to participation; see important note below for details.
2009 – 2010 Peace Poster & Creative Writing
** Always done in the fall to coincide with International Day of Peace.
We begin the Peaceful Expectations peace program with a Peace Poster & Creative Writing contest which will provide children the opportunity to gain a greater awareness and understanding of peace in their lives and help them create a vision of world peace. This portion of the program is open to all grades. (PK - 8)
In addition each year we will add another peace module.
2010 – 2011 Peace Bells
Peace Bells: Fifth graders will learn how the first peace bell came to existence and why. Starting with this first peace bell students will be invited on a “peace bell” scavenger hunt”. Childsafe will introduce peace bells from around the world, for each one we find, your students will be challenged to search and find peace bells here in the US. Fifth grades will be given the task of creating a peace moment in your community by securing a local bell, setting a date and time, informing the community, and ringing their own peace bell.
2011-2012 Pockets of Peace
Pockets of Peace: Sixth graders will be introduced to pockets of peace from around the world. Childsafe will be traveling to places that most Americans will never see filming Pockets of Peace and bringing peace lessons and messages into your classrooms. Interviews with curators of Peace Museums, displays of peace art, watch a peace performance, hear children in their native tongue describe their vision of a peace for all, and more. Children will learn to seek out and find pockets of peace closer to home, in their neighborhood, state, and country. Each year we will give a sample list of ideas, for students to work together, to create a pocket of peace for the school. They will be invited to film, narrate and share with Childsafe their pocket of peace so we may share it with the world.
2012 -2013 Children's Peace Council
Children's Peace Council: Seventh graders will learn about a group of children in the heart of Lebanon who have come together to form a children's peace council. Their voice and message is to teach each other that differences are overcome and civil wars avoided by simply learning about each other and actively engaging one another. Your students will learn of their activities and learn why these children work so hard to ensure peace in their land for their futures. Students will be encouraged to exchange ideas about world peace with children in Lebanon. Their ultimate task for your seventh graders will be to create a peace council in your school and to plan a peace event for the school. Very much a hands on learning experience. Students will also be invited to submit their ideas for Peace council to Childsafe to be shared with other seventh grades around the country. They will also be given the task of creating articles of peace for the Childsafe peace newsletter to be shared with children world wide.
2013 - 2014 1,000 Peace Cranes
1,000 Peace Cranes: Eighth graders will receive their peace lesson from Japan. This module begins with students learning about the aftermath of Hiroshima. The struggles for survival, the hopes, dreams, and efforts of children working to prevent a repeat. Students will learn the story of one young brave girl who fought to live after she was exposed to radiation from the atomic bomb drop. Her inspirational story and message of peace will be shared. Your eighth graders will be invited to join children around the world who are working to create a safe future in nuclear weapon free world. Students will learn peace like all things worth while requires effort and commitment. To show their solidarity they will learn the art of Origami and be invited to help create a peace crane chain that will travel to Japan to be put on display at Hiroshima park under the Children's Peace monument. Students learn they can make a difference and be heard by joining their actions and voices with others. Your students will become well informed eager peace participants and they will love the hands on activities.
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Important Note:
CHILDSAFE makes this peace program available FREE of charge to every elementary and middle school in the country we do however have one condition for participation. Participating schools must agree to a joint fund raiser with CHILDSAFEfoundation using the Childsafe peace t-shirt.
Peace T-shirt sales will allow:
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school groups to earn money for their special projects,
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keep CHILDSAFEfoundation's peace programs free and available to all,
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serve as a peace reminder to all that wear them.
Enrollment limited to 125 schools for 2009 – 2010
To download a PDF copy of the peace program overview and fund raiser information please visit CHILDSAFEfoundation online at:
www.childsafefoundation-usa.org/
WHY TEACH FOR PEACE?
Because we can and we should, it is our job to make the world a better, safer and more peaceful place.
Children around the world deserve no less.
CHILDSAFEfoundation
3680 Highway YY
Moberly, MO
65270
Dr. Jacqueline Beaudoin, Executive Director
jbeaudoin@childsafefoundation-usa.org
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Peaceful Expectations
All material is supplied to schools for use in their school
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CHILDSAFEfoundation
EST. 1993
www.childsafefoundation-usa.org/
CHILDSAFEfoundation working with schools make long term contributions to peace by “educating for peace”.
Childsafe's peace education programs encourage children of all ages to develop mutual understanding and respect; to resolve differences without recourse to violence; and to embrace and celebrate human and culture diversity.
Why teach for peace, a few thoughts from CHILDSAFE founder, Dr. Beaudoin, excerpts from article written by Sisi Tang
“Peaceful Expectations,” The goal is to instill in elementary and middle school students a greater awareness, respect, and appreciation of peace at home and abroad.
Dr. Beaudoin explained the end results will see children carry over what they learn in the peace program into their lives at home and in school, and to avoid bullying and violence in schools and communities.
"We need to teach for respect, admiration and excitement about the differences that make us unique. When we can do that, we can have peace," says Dr. Beaudoin, founder of the Childsafe foundation.
The program begins this year with a peace poster and essay contest, helping children first become aware of what peace means to them and inviting them to share their visions for peace through original artwork.
Most segments of the program are flexible, according to Dr. Beaudoin, which means teachers can incorporate peaceful expectation projects into their curriculum and extracurricular activities. “There's so much flexibility on how and where it can be used – language arts, English, science, history, geography..”
In response to the question, why teach peace to children? Dr. Beaudoin responds, “Children are purer in heart and thought. A child will be the biggest and strongest advocate for peace and if anyone has a right to peace it is a child.”
This nationwide launch is slated to coincide with September 22, the U.N. International day of Peace, seeking involvement from parents, teachers, and students.
To Register your School for this exciting Peace Education Program please choose a “Submission Date”
All Peace Poster and Essay entries along with fund raiser orders should be post marked no later than your chosen Submission Date.
Please note that only 125 schools nationwide are being accepted into the program at this time.
Questions about the program? Please email Katy Karam, Director of Education kkaram@childsafefoundation-usa.org