Unit 4: Sharing the Planet
Theme: Sharing the Planet Central Idea: People's response to conflict impact the quality of human life. This was such a busy unit! We learned a lot about peace and what peace looks like. We thought about how to bring peace to ourselves, to our class, and to our world. This idea was more tangible for students this year with many already knowing about wars that are happening and being able to connect this topic to things they are hearing in their every day lives. We learned about symbols of peace and made our own. We practiced different breathing, meditation, and yoga techniques to bring inner peace. We learned about protests and made our own protest posters about things we would change at our school. We even took action on some of these by sharing them with Mr. Ulu and the student council! We were able to go on our first field trip during this unit as well! We went to the Osaka Science Museum! Although this field trip was meant to connect with out last unit, we were able to enjo