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Let's do geography and culture alive. Try it!

by Senior Member on 11-09-2011 09:58 AM

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Reading, listening or even telling about geography, culture is rather boring, when they are presented like abstract things. To do it more alive and personal I use penpalling and writing letters not e-mails. Don't stop reding it please! It's not very much expensive or time consuming as you may think. Children are so proud of receiving and writing personal letters. We have penpal class in Sri Lanka. Every child in my class can find it on the map. SL is very different from Russia in nature.

 

Education Level(s)

1-2, 3-4, 5-6

 

Subject(s)

Early Learning, Math & Science, Reading & Literacy, Student Engagement & Development

 

Learning Objectives

My students learn about geography,sc., etc. not only at school. Eg. We got the letter fron SL where was written that New Year was celebrated in April . It caused a lot of questions in class. Children brought encyclopedias with articles about SL, traditions of this holiday. We know concreate children, their families.SL children wrote us that if they don't close the door in their house iguanas may run into the house. There are no iguanas in Russia. Again kids took books to read about animals in S

 

Materials

The main thing is that the correspondence should be seriously planned. I use e-mails to discuss plans with the teacher. But for children it's more interesting to have something in hands that came from the other part of the world. Do you know that in Russia we have completely different Winnie the Pooh cartoon character? We sent penpals folk tales in R. to discuss that we all speak diff. languages and have dif. cultures but we are also alike we love our parents, help people, go to school...

 

Other Information

You can use everything depending on the topic you teach. My children are ready to share theire culture, they want people from other countries to understand and like Russian culture.We compared folk tale Gingerbread man and R. tale the Bun. Both sides were surprised that such fairy tale exists in different countries. I want so much to tell about this topic. It's so much fun! Parents are also actively involved. It's not degerous. If you have any qustions please feel free to ask!

 

Sponsor: LeapFrog

 

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