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PEACE SCHOOL PROGRAM: SUPPORTED STANDARDS
Overview
The Peace Learning Center’s Peace School program helps students, teachers and other school staff to create a positive environment within school communities. Through interactive sessions with students in Kindergarten through 8th grade, the Peace School program helps student develop a focus on community, tools for dealing with conflict and a broad range of communication skills. In addition to meeting these core goals, the program also supports several Indiana educational standards, as reflected below.
Kindergarten Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- K.5.1: Draw pictures and write words for a specific reason.
- K.7.1: Understand and follow one- and two-step spoken directions.
- K.7.2: Share information and ideas, speaking in complete, coherent sentences.
- K.7.3: Describe people, places, things (including their size, color, and shape), locations, and actions.
- K.7.4: Recite short poems, rhymes, and songs.
Social Studies:
- K.2.3: Functions of Government: Give examples of classroom and school rules and explain how each helps us.
- K.2.4: Roles of Citizens: Give examples of how to be a responsible family member and member of a group.
- K.2.5: Roles of Citizens: Identify the role of students in the classroom and the importance of following school rules to ensure order and safety.
Fine Arts: Visual Arts
- K.6.2: Create art that expresses personal ideas, interests, and feelings.
- K.6.5: Reflect on and share work with others.
- K.6.6: Respect personal work and the work of others.
Health & Wellness:
- K.4.1: Identify healthy ways to express needs.
- K.4.3: State ways to respond when in an unwanted situation.
Grade 1 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 1.7.1: Comprehension: Listen attentively.
- 1.7.6: Speaking Applications: Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories.
- 1.7.10: Use visual aids, such as pictures and objects, to present oral information
Social Studies:
- 1.1.4: Identify local people from the past who have shown honesty, courage and responsibility.
- 1.2.4: Roles of Citizens: Describe ways that individual actions can contribute to the common good of the community.
- 1.2.5: Roles of Citizens: Define what a citizen is and describe the characteristics of good citizenship.
Grade 1 Supported Standards, cont.
Fine Arts: Visual Arts
- 1.6.2: Create artwork about self, family, and personal experiences.
- 1.6.3: Identify and use symbols to express ideas.
- 1.6.5: Reflect on and share work with others.
- 1.6.6: Respect personal work and the work of others.
Health & Wellness:
- 1.1.2: Recognize that emotional health is one dimension of health.
- 1.4.1: Describe healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.
- 1.4.2: Identify listening skills related to health.
Physical Education
- 1.1.4: Perform fundamental rhythmic skills alone, with a partner, or in a group.
- 1.2.1: Demonstrate fundamental movement vocabulary and cue words for learning skills.
- 1.2.3: Demonstrate variations in moving with directional, spatial and temporal awareness.
Grade 2 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 2.7.4: Give and follow three- and four-step oral directions.
- 2.7.13: Recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories.
Social Studies:
- 2.2.4: Roles of Citizens: Describe how people of different ages, cultural backgrounds and traditions contribute to the community and how all citizens can respect these differences.
- 2.2.5: Roles of Citizens: Identify people who are good citizens and describe the character traits that make them admirable.
Fine Arts: Dance
- 2.3.1: Express feelings, stories, or ideas through movement or gesture.
Fine Arts: Visual Arts
- 2.6.2: Create artwork about self, family, and personal experiences.
- 2.6.6: Demonstrate respect for personal work and the work of others.
Health & Wellness:
- 2.2.2: Identify what the school can do to support personal health practices and behaviors.
- 2.4.1: Demonstrate healthy ways to express needs, wants and feelings.
- 2.8.2: Encourage peers to make positive health choices
Grade 3 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 3.1.6: Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words.
- 3.7.2: Connect and relate experiences and ideas to those of a speaker.
Fine Arts: Theatre
- 3.10.1: Experience live theatre
Fine Arts: Visual Arts
- 3.6.2: Create artwork that communicates personal ideas and experiences.
- 3.6.6: Demonstrate respect for personal work and the work of others.
- 3.8.2: Create artwork utilizing concepts, subject matter, or the sign systems of other disciplines.
Health & Wellness
- 3.1.1: Identify the link between healthy choices and being healthy.
- 3.1.2: Give examples of physical and emotional health.
- 3.2.3: State how peers can influence healthy behaviors.
- 3.4.1: Name effective nonverbal communication skills to enhance health and wellness.
- 3.4.3: Suggest nonviolent strategies to manage conflict.
- 3.4.4: Illustrate how to ask for assistance with a difficult personal situation.
- 3.7.2: Identify a healthy practice to maintain personal health and wellness.
Grade 4 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 4.1.7: Use context to determine the meaning of unknown words.
- 4.7.1: Comprehension: Ask thoughtful questions and respond orally to relevant questions with appropriate elaboration.
- 4.7.15: Connect and relate experiences and ideas to those of a speaker.
- 4.7.6: Use logical structures for conveying information, including cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question.
Social Studies:
- 4.2.6: Roles of Citizens: Define and provide examples of civic virtues in a democracy.
Health & Wellness:
- 4.1.2: Recognize examples of intellectual and social health.
- 4.2.3: Determine how peers can influence unhealthy behaviors and promote wellness.
- 4.4.1: Explain effective verbal communication skills to enhance health.
- 4.4.3: Practice nonviolent strategies to resolve conflict
- 4.5.1: Explain situations that may require a thoughtful health-related decision.
- 4.7.1: Describe positive health behaviors.
- 4.7.2: Describe a healthy behavior to improve personal health and wellness.
- 4.8.2: Illustrate how to assist others to make positive health choices.
Grade 5 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 5.1.6: Understand unknown words by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues to determine meaning.
Social Studies
- 5.2.8: Roles of Citizens: Describe group and individual actions that illustrate civic virtues, such as civility, cooperation, respect and responsible participation.
Fine Arts: Theatre Arts
- 5.4.2: Speculate on the meaning of a performance.
- 5.8.1: Interact with skilled actors.
Health & Wellness
- 5.1.1: Describe the relationship between healthy behaviors and personal health.
- 5.1.2: Identify examples of emotional, intellectual, physical, and social health.
- 5.1.3: Describe ways in which a safe and healthy school and community environment can promote personal health.
- 5.2.3: Identify how peers can influence healthy and unhealthy behaviors.
- 5.4.1: Explain effective verbal communication skills to enhance health.
- 5.4.3: Practice nonviolent strategies to resolve conflict
- 5.5.1: Explain situations that may require a thoughtful health-related decision.
- 5.5.3: List healthy options to health-related issues or problems.
- 5.5.6: Describe the outcomes of a health-related decision.
- 5.8.2: Encourage others to make positive health choices.
Grade 6 Supported Standards
English/Language Arts
- 6.7.2: Identify the tone, mood, and emotion conveyed in the oral communication.
- 6.7.3: Restate and carry out multiple-step oral instructions and directions.
Health & Wellness
- 6.1.1: Compare how healthy behaviors and personal health are linked.
- 6.1.2: Identify the interrelationships of emotional and social health in adolescence.
- 6.2.3: Explain how peers influence healthy behaviors.
- 6.2.7: Identify norms that influence health behaviors.
- 6.2.9: Identify how some health choices influence unhealthy behaviors.
- 6.4.1: Investigate effective communication skills to enhance health.
- 6.4.2: Choose refusal skills to avoid or reduce health risks.
- 6.4.3: Choose effective conflict management strategies.
- 6.5.1: Name conditions that can help or hinder healthy decision making.
- 6.5.2: Explain when health-related situations require a thoughtful decision-making process.
- 6.5.4: Identify healthy and unhealthy options to health-related issues or problems.
- 6.5.5: Describe the potential short-term impact of each choice on self and others.
- 6.8.2: Show how to support others to make positive health choices.
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