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At home in Heritage: Audiovisual material
In the context of Heritage Day 2024, FARO created an audiovisual collection around the annual theme at Home at The Archives for Education. In six parts we look at how a feeling of home is shaped: in the neighborhood, in language and in different …
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Reynaert De Vos: Teaching package
An age-old story about a very cunning fox. Get to know Reynaert with your class. Who is he? What did he do? Why is it still so relevant? Read the story, rhyme, make your own book cover and ponder moral dilemmas!
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Timoe by Paul Kustermans: Explanation video
In this video, excerpts from the book of Timothy and primary sources are used to visualize the Egyptians' view of life after death. This excerpt is used purely for educational purposes. While reading an excerpt from the book, a number of questions …
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Wil: Literary building blocks
Fragment from the war novel Wil (Jeroen Olyslaegers).
Based on the opening scene (raid of the Lizke family), some literary building blocks are repeated (narrative point of view, space, character, style, time).
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Marga Minco (1920-2023), The address: Listening and reading
Marga Minco is the writing name of Sara Minco, who was born in a Jewish family in 1920 and died in 2023. In 1943 her parents, brother and sister were deported. During the rest of the war she lived in hiding. When her family died in a concentration …
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Child with ink spots: Street art trail with teaching package
Child with ink spots is a street art trail in Turnhout, you will find the lesson package in the appendix.
It is 1892. Senne is 11 years old and a factory child. Like many children, he works in one of the Turnhout printing companies. The work is hard …
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Bring Greek myths to life with AI!
In this article you will read about a teaching approach that introduces students to three myths: the myth about Scylla and Charybdis and two about King Midas, with his donkey ears or his trademark golden touch . They discover the characters and are …
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Multatuli, Saïdjah and Adinda: Teaching idea
In the seventeenth chapter of Max Havelaar , the absolute highlight of our historical literature, Multatuli tells the moving love story of a Javanese girl and a Javanese boy, the children of two poor farmers. But their love and their lives, and those …
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Willem van Moerbeke. Medieval Connoisseur of Ancient Wisdom - Pegasus novus 3
Article about Willem van Moerbeke, translator of ancient Greek philosophical and scientific texts. He had transferred Archimedes, Galenus, Proclus and especially Aristotle to Latin, the academic language of the then scholars in Western Europe. …
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Hendrik Conscience, The Lion of Flanders: Lesson idea
In this learning tool, students are introduced to the 19th-century novel that has largely determined our image of the Battle of the Golden Spurs: The Lion of Flanders or the Battle of the Golden Spurs , written by Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883). The …
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Greeks wandering: Didactic package
This didactic package can be used without obligation to address a prominent human and social problem, migration, in the classroom from a historical perspective. The target audience are history students for the Alpha module and Greek students for …
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