Halloween in a cultural way at school : some resources

Brian Handwerk
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It's Halloween! And we all know that students like Halloween! So every educator will have prepared some activities to include into the lesson about Halloween.

National Geographic published an interesting article that can be used in schools. It's a good resource for students that will enriched lessons. 

The article includes a wonderful list of useful links that teachers can explore on their own way, according the students profile they are teaching.

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Education: 

Halloween is a cross-curricular subject and students will love to work and explore their creativity in different matters. At the same time, they will evolve curricular skills.

• Curricula: Languages, Arts, Music, Civics

• Level: All levels: (primary, elementary, high junior education)

Students will be encouraged to be creative using their own smartphones and tablets in the classroom, devices that help prepare students to thrive in an increasingly digital world. 

And they love it! They are active in the activities that teachers propose for the course.

• Google Doodle:

Speaking about Halloween... Have you watched how Google doodle team and friends had funny carving giant pumpkins in the Halloween spirit?

G-Souto

31.10.2011

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References: 

The National Geographic: Halloween 2011: Top Costumes, History, Myths, More

Why Daylight saving time?

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Well, at this time of the year time changes! In Europa clocks changed last Sunday March 27 (almost in all countries!


Daylight saving time (DST) is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. 

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"Most areas of North America and Europe observe daylight saving time (DST), while most areas of Africa and Asia do not. South America is mixed, with most countries in the warmer north of the continent near the equator not observing DST, while Chile, Paraguay, andUruguay and southern parts of Brazil do. Oceania is also mixed, with New Zealand and parts of southern Australia observing DST, while most other areas do not". Read more on Wikipedia


Why do we have Daylight Saving Time? In the CBS video below, we can watch  an animated explanation for moving our clocks forward and backward in the spring and fall.

Mitch Butler and Josh Landis of "The Fast Draw" team provide an animated explanation for moving our clocks forward and backward in the spring and fall.

Education:


This interesting video provides a good explanation of the rationale for Daylight Saving Time. And students will understand the reasons of DST.


Interesting links to complete this theme in the classroom: 

• Day Light Saving Time (clouds)

Like the clouds, an interactive website about DST that students might use to develope tech skills, picking the clouds one by one to learn about Day Light Save, when, why, where. There are some good itens to enlarge knowledge like the History, Controversy (amazing guidelines) or Anecdotes (funny)

• Day Light saving Time Around the World 

Students might learn when DST happens in the different countries around the world - Geography curriculum

• HoradoMundo.com

Similar to the previous link but students might learn about DST in Portuguese, English and Spanish - Languages curricula


Kids are always very curious to understand why 'things' happen! Here a good way to let them learn about Day Light Saving.




"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!' ..."


The Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland


G-Souto

30.03.2011
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Why Daylight saving time? by G-Souto is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.