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Working with Diagrams & Statistics
Objective:
The students practice reading a diagram and extracting information from it.
Contents and methods:
The students will first answer guided questions about the shown diagram. Afterwards they will analyze the diagram in more detail.
Skills:
- Reading charts and diagrams
- Extracting information from charts and diagrams
- Analyzing charts and diagrams
Target group:
Grades 8 and above
Contemporaries in history - Who lived with whom?
Objective: Learners develop an understanding of a chosen period and the people who lived at that time.
Content and method: Using role cards, learners deal with three different historical figures from the same period. In doing so, they learn more about differences and similarities as well as their role in history. The worksheet is intended to provide a better overview of history in order to make interdependencies visible.
Competencies:
- compare and evaluate their own culture with other cultures in terms of their historical conditionality
- Recognize the possibilities and limits of individual and collective action in historical situations
- Analyze historical facts in their interdependencies (multi-causality)
Level: Intermediate
The Second World War
Objective: Learners can explain a selected event in the context of the Second World War and categorize it in the overall context of the war.
Content and methodology: Using various texts and audio messages, learners work through the most important information in the context of the Second World War. They focus specifically on one event during the war and receive information about the time before the war and the consequences in the post-war period. The learners summarize this information in a final essay task.
Competences:
- Analyse historical facts in their causal contexts (multi-causality)
- Reconstruct historical facts (reconstruction)
- Characterise and evaluate the Second World War
Level: 9th/10th grade
Basic knowledge of history (basics)
Objective: Learners acquire basic knowledge of a selected topic in history.
Content and methodology: Learners read a basic text and can answer comprehension questions based on it.
Competences:
- Promote reading skills
- Deepen historical knowledge
Level: Grades 5 - 7
Basic knowledge of history (intermediate level)
Objective: Learners acquire basic knowledge of a selected historical topic.
Content and methodology: Learners read a basic text and are able to answer historical comprehension questions based on it.
Competences:
- Promoting reading skills
- Assessing and explaining historical contexts
Level: Intermediate level (8th - 10th grade)
Basic knowledge of history (high school)
Objective: Learners acquire basic knowledge of a selected historical topic.
Content and methodology: Learners read a basic text and are able to answer historical comprehension questions based on it.
Competences:
- Promoting reading skills
- Assessing and explaining historical contexts
Level: Upper levels (11th - 13th grade)
Political decisions and their consequences
Objective: The learners learn how to deal with possible political decisions and consequences and can evaluate them.
Content and methodology: With the help of a text and audio files, learners find out about the possible consequences of a political decision. Based on this, two fictitious people talk about how society and life could change as a result of this decision.
Competences:
- Explaining the effects of political, economic and social structures and processes on people's lives and experiences
- Strengthen reading skills and deal with political and social issues
Level: Intermediate
Important! The consequences of the chosen political decision described are based on real processes and mechanisms and are possible, but they should only be considered hypothetically.
Smartphone Puzzle
Objective: Students learn to analyze information from various digital sources and link it logically in order to draw conclusions.
Content and Methodology: The worksheet offers an interactive puzzle task based around a found smartphone. The students analyze chat histories, pictures and an audio file to identify the owner of the smartphone.
Skills:
- Critical analysis of texts and media
- Logical thinking and reasoning
- Understanding historical and/or scientific contexts
Target Audience and Level: Suitable for teaching at lower secondary level.
Women and equal rights
Historical personalities (intermediate level)
In this worksheet, learners deal with a historical personality. They learn more about the personality's career, challenges and successes. The worksheet is suitable for intermediate level.
The life and work of ...(intermediate)
