Module 3

3.1 Ready-to-use resources developed with partners

The first resource  is Transcribathon for education. This is an online collaborative tool designed with the partner Facts & Files, which allows students to transcribe and annotate documents related to the First World War, like diaries, letters, etc.

Transcribathon Athens

ΜΑΡΑΘΩΝΙΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΓΡΑΦΗΣ - 9 ΗΜΕΡΏΝ

Activity > >

Explore the learning activities of the Historiana platform and find a learning activity you would like to use in your classroom. Then, add a note to the following Padlet which includes:

• Title of the activity
• Link to the activity
• Explanation of how you would use it in your classroom

My contribution:

• Title Living in war
• Link http://la.historiana.eu/la/activity/life-in-europe-1945-1949/
• Explanation I would use this Learning Activity in my class, as a trigger for my students to think about the value of having PEACE, and how WAR can change our lives.

The learning goals will be:

• Gain a sense of period by studying the life experience of a person (or people) from the period 1945-9.
• Identify the extent to which life experiences were similar or different in 1945-9 and suggest reasons for these.
• Be able to describe in detail and with nuance what life was like in Europe 1945-49.
• Compare life in 1945-9 with life in Europe today.
• Learn that the European project was a suggested way forward to achieve peace and stability for war-torn Europe.

Life in Europe

PADLET

3.2 The Europeana Education space, Part 1

1. Apps > >

Europeana gives you access to a wide variety of applications, developed by third parties, that you can utilise in your class within many fields, such as Science, Cultural Heritage or Art.

You will find a selection of applications here. Some apps that are worth mentioning are: Sourcera, a free tool that allows you to search the largest archives in the world, Art Up Your Tabor Sound Connections. Please do consider that some of these applications have been created without direct supervision from Europeana and therefore proper functioning cannot be guaranteed.

Voluntary Activity

For this activity, we suggest you try the Vangoyourself tool. This is a very inspiring application that will allow you to easily engage your students with cultural heritage. To recreate a famous painting, you just need to go to this website and then follow these simple steps:

• Choose: pick a painting to recreate
• Recreate: take or upload your own photo and twin with the original, for others to enjoy
• Exhibit: publish and share your masterpiece!

To get some inspiration, below is a recreation of the painting The Bitter Potion by Adriaen Brouwer.

My contribution:

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Artist	Georges-Pierre Seurat
Year	1884–1886
Medium	Oil on canvas

Vangoyourself

Please upload your photo here, indicating your name, the title of the painting and its link.

PADLET

3.3 The Europeana Education space, Part 2

Curated datasets are the best way to save time while browsing the Europeana database. Curated databases are carefully selected Europeana content records on a particular topic. Check out the datasets in case you have no time browsing more than 50 million items. Here are some examples:

• High-resolution paintings from the Mauritshuis
• Photographs of Catalan photographer Josep Maria Sagarra
• Art Nouveau plants and ornaments
• Early Japanese photographs
• Birdsongs in Europeana

Make sure you explore the platform thoroughly to find out how to enrich your educational resources and inspire learners with Europe's digital cultural heritage!

You can also have a look at the following video Naír Carrera has prepared, where she also mentions some other apps, publications and curated datasets worth exploring.

3.4 Europeana Education applied

Europeana offers endless possibilities for teachers to incorporate cultural heritage in their lessons, as they can be implemented in different subjects with students at different levels. Some ready-made examples of learning scenarios you could also try to implement in your classroom are the following:

• History teachers of any age group: On the Historiana platform you find a variety of lesson plans which you can browse not only by themes but also by teaching methods. Choose a teaching method you haven’t tried yet: try drama or roleplay. There are lesson plans with printable worksheets (also suited for classrooms with no computers or Internet access). The advantage of this tool is that you can either use it online or offline.
• History teacher teaching WW1: If you have Macbook yourself and iPads for classroom use, the free iTunesU course and Multi-Touch book World War I: A battle of perspectives is a great starting point. It has plenty of pictures, maps and cartoons, so you can use it even if you teach in another language. NB: The course material is only available in the iTunesU app on iPhone or iPad, and the Multi-Touch book for Mac. You can also combine the iTunesU course with the Transcribathon tool and Animals in the Great War, both of them focusing on World War I.
• Primary teacher (of students between 6 to 11 years old): If you teach Geography or Arts, you can also combine these two subjects to elaborate a lesson through the study of landscape details in painting. As you will see in the scenario Artistic Landscapes, made by Fulvia Piccolo, the students have to search in the Europeana platform in order to create an interactive e-book about landscapes that will be shared between schoolmates. This scenario is recommended for children between 7 and 8 years old. If you want to see Fulvia’s account on how the implementation went, you can find it back in Module 2!
• If you are a middle school Maths/Physics teacher (of students up to 15 years old) who wants to work with density and volumes, you can check out the scenario When in History did wallets weight the most? created by Ryszard Markowicz, one of the 18 Developer Group Teachers. Stay tuned for Module 5, where Ryszard will give an account of how the implementation went for him!
• Or, if you are a high school Physics teacher (of students up to 18 years old) who is teaching sound (frequency and amplitude) to students, you can see how to incorporate sounds in your lessons with the scenario Sounds of Nature made by Rafael Montero, one of the Developer Group teachers. More details about this learning scenario in Module 4!

3.6 The importance of the learning space

As a teacher, it is very important to take into consideration the multiple ways students learn, and certainly reflect on how the type of activities students carry out, as well as where these activities take place, are effecting their engagement and performance.

If you want to get some inspiration for activities that can be easily carried out outdoors, you can check out the following learning scenarios, made by three of the Developer Group teachers, which focus on the learning space and the learner’s role.

• A trip to the South Pole by José María Díaz
• This learning scenario aims at fostering students’ interest in reading scientific papers and raising awareness of historical facts, and José María Díaz focuses on outdoor education, so learning outside of the school building in a “real” environment, which is certainly a very motivating way of engaging students!

• Introduction to Art History by Niina Väntänen
• In this learning scenario made by Niina, she also uses the application Vangoyourself to ask her students to replicate a painting. This way, students will learn from art history, recognising eras and styles and learning how to organise these chronologically.

• Rocks in the Arts by Teresita Gravina
• In this scenario, Teresita chooses to focus on outdoor activities as well as cloud-based learning and Bring Your Own Device to ask her students to search for rocks outside, and to take notes about this outdoor activity. Do you want to know more about this scenario?