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Objective: This worksheet aims to provide learners with a basic understanding of Spanish history and to practice their written communication skills.

Content and Methods: It covers the origins and key periods of Spanish history, including historical facts and a fictional letter from the past. Methods include listening and reading comprehension, multiple-choice and true/false questions, and a letter-writing task.

Competencies:

• Listening and reading comprehension
• Historical knowledge of Spain
• Written communication

Target audience and level: Spanish learners at B1 level

This worksheet aims to provide students with a multifaceted understanding of the historical and emotional complexities of immigration at a border. By combining historical facts with empathetic role-playing, students explore the challenges, legal hurdles, and personal stakes involved in seeking a new life.

Content and methods: The worksheet utilizes a blend of historical reading, audio-based interaction, and creative writing. It provides a text on a country's immigration policies to establish historical context. Methodologically, it shifts from factual comprehension to perspective-taking by prompting students to listen to border official questions, write a reflective essay from the viewpoint of an immigrant, and analyze the internal emotional landscape of those facing interrogation.

Competencies:

• Historical Literacy: Understanding historical immigration laws
• Empathy and Perspective-Taking: Analyzing the emotional burden and fears of immigrants during the entry process
• Listening and Writing Skills: Processing oral questions and articulating detailed personal narratives in an essay format
• Critical Reflection: Evaluating the consequences of refusal and the ethical implications of national allegiance and bias

Target group: Grades 9-12 (High School)

Learners gain an understanding of the consequences of colonialism by focusing on various aspects of a selected (former) colonised nation.

Content and methodology: Learners begin by examining a photograph related to colonialism. Based on this, they acquire basic knowledge about the concept and circumstances. The individual focal points of the station work are: history of a colony, social consequences, political consequences and colonialism in the present day. Based on these focal points, learners acquire comprehensive knowledge about the consequences of colonialism and its effects on the perception and living environment of a selected (formerly) colonised nation.

Competencies:

• Explaining and examining one's own and others' value orientations
• Reconstructing historical facts (reconstruction)
• Explaining the effects of political, economic and social structures and processes on people's lives and experiences

Target group and level: 8th - 10th grade

Note: Due to the volume, creation takes longer.

Learners develop an understanding of the conditions and motivations of resistance groups and resistance fighters against National Socialism.

Content and methodology: Using a selected example, learners can explain everyday life under the Nazi dictatorship between consent, oppression and resistance, and assess the effects on the stability of Nazi rule.

Competencies:

• Recognise the possibilities and limitations of individual and collective action in historical situations and discuss alternative courses of action.
• Analyse historical facts in their context (multicausality).
• Reconstruct historical facts (reconstruction).

Target group and level: 9th/10th grade

Students explore the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) and examine one stage of its development in detail.

Methods and content: The worksheet begins with the historical and philosophical roots of the idea of AI. Text analysis and multiple-choice questions are used to explore the philosophical foundations laid by René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In the second part, practical developments are examined on the basis of a selected event. This involves analysing an audio source and completing transfer tasks. Finally, as an optional extra, a chronological sorting task can be completed as part of a video analysis to classify important historical milestones.

Skills:

• Critical thinking: Analysis of philosophical arguments and answering multiple-choice questions.
• Media literacy: Use of audio and video sources to obtain and summarise information.
• Transfer skills: Transferring historical observations to modern AI applications and evaluating their significance today.

Target group and level: From Year 7 onwards.

Learners reflect on their current life situation, their wishes and goals, and formulate these in a letter to their future selves in order to create awareness of their own development.

Contents and methods:

The worksheet provides structured guidance on writing a personal letter to one's future self. Guiding questions serve as inspiration. The method is supplemented by the creation of a time capsule, in which small personal items such as photos or notes are enclosed with the letter.

Skills:

• Self-reflection and introspection
• Formulation of personal and professional goals
• Creative and written expression

Target group and level:

Grade 5 and above

With the help of the worksheet, learners engage with a film in a structured way in order to develop a deeper understanding and to reflect on and transfer what they have seen.

Contents and methods: 

The worksheet is structured like a brochure and asks questions about the content and further questions about the film. The worksheet ends with a personal evaluation of the film.

Skills:

• Concentrated extraction of information from a visual medium
• Analysis, reflection and transfer of film content

Target group and level:

Grade 7 and above

With the help of the worksheet, learners engage with the content of a film in a structured manner before, during and after viewing it in order to develop a deeper understanding and to reflect on and transfer what they have seen.

Content and methods: 

The worksheet begins by testing prior knowledge of the film. While watching, the pupils complete multiple-choice tasks to actively engage with and consolidate their understanding. After the film, transfer tasks are used for further processing and reflection on the topic.

Skills:

• Activating and building on prior knowledge
• Concentrated extraction of information from a visual medium
• Analysis, reflection and transfer of film content

Target group and level:

Grade 7 and above

Students learn and practise active listening skills in order to engage in constructive and respectful debate. They reflect on the importance of this skill for exchanging arguments and promoting mutual understanding.

Contents and methods:

The worksheet introduces the basics of active listening and illustrates its importance in debates and everyday life. Using a mini-debate on a selected topic, pupils practise listening attentively to arguments, summarising them and building on them. They use predefined sentence starters to create a flowing dialogue.

Skills:

• Active listening and empathy
• Ability to argue and change perspectives
• Reflection and self-awareness
• Structured documentation of arguments

Target group and level:

Grade 7 and above

 The main learning goal of this worksheet is to expand and deepen the advanced German vocabulary of students and learners at the C1 level. This will be achieved by introducing and actively using 10 specific German words, with their meanings inferred from descriptions and practiced in various contexts.

Content and Methods: The focus is on 10 advanced German words, with their meanings described in German. The methods are diverse: vocabulary discovery (deriving the English meaning from the German description), productive language use (writing a text of about 200 words using all the vocabulary), the "Taboo" game to describe the words without using certain key terms, and a final knowledge check by matching the German words with their English counterparts.

Skills:

• Linguistic Skills (German): Expanding advanced vocabulary (C1)
• Reading Comprehension: Inferring word meanings from context and description
• Written Expression: Creative and coherent composition of a longer text
• Communicative Skills: Explaining complex terms without using synonyms (Taboo game)
• Cognitive Flexibility: Mapping and transferring vocabulary between English and German

Target Group and Level: Learners of German at the C1 level (advanced language use)

Note: The speaking exercise can only be performed in the Chrome browser.