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Cultural packages to the schools and Role Playing

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About the Cultural packages

• Cultural packages are courses in the daytime for children in schools and kindergartens.

• The children are taught by ’professionals’ in the kindergarden, at the school or at the ’Cultural School’.

• Additional info: www.kulturskolerne.dk

Local History Package:’Into the local heritage’ – Role Playing

• Introduction to the local history and Role Playing about a school day in the 1950s – learning about morning song, discipline, eating lunch, march in straight rows and classroom discipline.

• Grade: Primary school

• Where: At the school

• Duration: Two days

• Teacher preparation: Teacher and Student Guide to RP

• Two historians from the Local History Archives

• Price: 400 kr.

Local History Package

Adjusted for the schools’ ’step by step’ goals

for ’Danish’ and ’History’.

Role Playing – a day in the school in the 1950s

• Introduction to role playing and archives: • We introduce the students to the idea of role

playing and preparations with clothes, lunch boxes, decorating the classroom.

• We practice ways of speaking, classroom, morning songs.

• Students choose a name for the day. • We point out two class monitors (=’dukse’).• Homework for the role playing days.

Role Playing – a day in the school in the 1950s

How do we introduce the archives and the collections? How do we know, what we know?

• The inspiration-box (suitcase)

• Use real historical sources

Role Playing A school day in the1950s

Morning Song


The Teachers


Lunch


Clothes, discipline and breaks


The class photo


Different ways of teaching


‘Praise and rice’


Writing with pen and ink


An apple a day …


Evaluating

“We didn’t just read about the 1950s in a book, we have actually been there!”

Said by a student in 5 class

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