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The learning unit consists of two parts and can take up to 12 hours.
Part one provides warming-up activities to get in contact with the topic of biography in a playful, child-oriented way. It includes 1. a question activity to learn more about each other, 2. an activity that invides children to complete sentences about their emotions and share it, 3. an activity to form changing groups according to different characteristics, 4. an activity that invides the children to position themselves in four different cornes according to different biographical questions and 5. a game that allows to lie regarding their own biographies. Each activity takes about 10 – 15 minutes.
Part two focuses on the consciousness raising and visualisation of the children biographies.
It consists of 1. an activity that motivates children to invent an imaginary biography according to different pictures and fotos of children from all over the world, 2. a drawing activity to create their own trees of life, 3. an activity to locate their family migration movements on a world map and 4. a creative process to develop their own family emblem.
Author: Annemarie Schweighofer-Brauer - Diversity4Kids project group: Zentrum für MigrantInnen in Tirol (ZEMIT); Europäische Akademie Bozen (EURAC)
Year: 2014
Languages: Italian
Typology of education resource : Learning unit
GCE Issues: Diversity issues
Author: Annemarie Schweighofer-Brauer - Diversity4Kids project group: Zentrum für MigrantInnen in Tirol (ZEMIT); Europäische Akademie Bozen (EURAC)
Specific sub-thematic area(s): Biography Diversity Family
Key word(s):
School subject(s)/field(s) of studies in which the educational resource can be used: Italian language, social learning
Activity’ objectives:
- to reflect on intercultural topics in a playful way
- to learn about the advantages of an diverse society
- to recognize prejudices, discrimination and racism
- to get active against discrimination
Pupils’ learning competences (SUBJECT- specific) addressed: Competence to write, to talk, to listen to others stories in a mindful way and to share their own biographies
Pupils’ learning competences (CGE) addressed: Reflecting on elements of diversity in my own biography Getting to know various aspects of diversity in our society
Methodology: Learning to live together, Self-reflection
Age range: 8-9, 10-11, 12-14
Link to website: http://www.diversity4kids.eu/it
Relevant notes :
Free download: http://www.diversity4kids.eu/de/angebote
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