Exploring children's literature in english » films http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit Otro sitio realizado con WordPress Sun, 14 Dec 2014 11:58:41 +0000 es-ES hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.25 Aladdin’s workshop and the cultural secrets of Arabia http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/23/aladdins-workshop-and-the-cultural-secrets-of-arabia/ http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/23/aladdins-workshop-and-the-cultural-secrets-of-arabia/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:33:06 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=765 Hello once again! Nice to be here one week more! :)

Today I am going to share with you the last project we are carrying out, the Aladdin’s workshop; and particularly, the workshop my group and I are preparing: Discovering the cultural secrets of Arabia.

During the last two weeks, we have been preparing a workshop that we are developing next Tuesday, 25th November, with a group of students from a public school in Alcalá de Henares.

The pillars of this project are the powerful and multiple uses of children films in education. I think that all of us are sure that every film, even those that we think are simple and with a basic plot, can be used in many different ways to present the contents to kids through a motivating, enjoyable and cross-curricular methodology, and interesting and close materials and resources.

For this project, the workshops are devoted to teaching Science contents through English and through Aladdin’s film. For that, we are working on six different workshops, each of them dedicated to one Science topic; using the characters, places, elements and other aspects present in Aladdin’s film as the medium to carry out the teaching-learning process.

In my case, my group decided to work on Arabian culture (“The secrets of Arabia”), as the film is constantly presenting, both directly through the dialogues or songs, or indirectly, by just showing them in the scenes, the main aspects of that area and its culture: places in Arabia, artistic elements such as the decoration of the streets or houses, the music, instruments and dances; market products like food or ornaments, animals, monuments, laws and rules, clothing, social classes, gender differences (men vs. women), religious beliefs, etc.

As you can see, there is an enormous amount of elements that we can work on. However, we are only having twenty minutes to develop the whole workshop, so we have chosen the four following topics for teaching them directly:

  1. Geography: Location of Arabia in the world map and the Geography of the country.
  2. Market: products sold in markets and ways of buying them.
  3. Palace: social classes and laws of Arabia.
  4. Palace Gardens: Art, music, instruments and dances.

Furthermore, we have to take into account that we are living in the era of technology, so we are introducing ICTs in almost every corner. Then, the whiteboard will be used to show the maps and to present the Palace rooms in which the students will click to see the different laws of Arabia; and a computer is used to watch the Arabian dance and listen to the song while learning the choreography.

Finally, to conclude the workshop, we are letting the kids use their cameras to feel like tourists and take pictures or selfies in every corner, and we are giving them a souvenir from Arabia to thank them for their visit and wish them a good day.

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