The program guides pupils through the theme of the game and toys to their own games, to other children in the classroom and elsewhere in the world. Pupils this way they get to know their classmates and learn to deal with diversity.
The program is based on active learning methods. The basis are creative tasks, work with text, discussions, we use the phase of challenge based learning – engage, investigate and act.
Important is the belief that it is impossible to understand another person and a different view of the world, if we don’t understand ourselves.
Activities first help pupils to remember what they play with and played with. They explore what toys and games mean to them. Than in the creative part they think about how they would use seemingly uninteresting objects to play. In the video, they find out how and with what children play in other parts of the world. They will realize that it is not about the appearance of toys, but that creativity and imagination unite everyone.
By giving students non-violently through toy stories to see the world through their eyes, they also receive stimuli and information to reflect on how we come to objects of daily consumption, what we value in them and who or what we support by their production or purchase.
It is therefore a kind of preliminary step leading to sensitivity and conscious decision-making about their consumption. A visit to a large toy store and a local toy factory will further support this thinking. As well as a questionnaire for parents and grandparents regarding their toys in a period that was not yet subject to so much consumerism.
It is the toy industry, where most toys come from today, he’s nowhere near as sweet and innocent. The toy industry is one of the strongest industries in the world.
An enormous amount of money flows through it and an unimaginable number of people participate in it. Game and toys also connect us in today’s world with people we don’t know and will probably never meet.
Nevertheless, we participate in their lives with our decisions, and they contribute to ours with their work.
All previous activities and experiences lead to a call to action – School as a living Lab:
Pupils are going to find an economical and sustainable solution regarding the consumption of toys (SWAP, bazaar, donating to younger children…)
