1st Class project “School stories of the 20th century”

Objective: by studying photographs and historical materials get familiar with the school life of 1^st grade in the 20^th century.

Tasks:

1. Study and collect information from images, photographs and other materials about 1^st grade in the 20^th century
2. Interview parents and grandparents about their experience in the first grade, tell classmates
3. To see the difference between schools in the 20^th and 21^st century
4. Learn to analyze the information obtained and draw conclusions
5. Learn to present your work

Workflow:

Pupils looked at the photographs of their parents and teachers in the 1^st grade with great interest and saw differences with the 1^st grade photographs from the 21^st century. It was concluded that there is a lot to learn from the photos.

Pupils told each other the stories of their parents and grandparents from the 1^st grade.

Compared what they had seen and heard with their own experience.

It was interesting to study 1^st grade textbooks from 20^th century. Pupils were surprised that there were no colored images and that texts were all in lowercase letters – they seemed dull and uninteresting.

Conclusion:

Pupils liked to practice calligraphy in specially modelled exercise-books, to solve tasks from the old books, compare textbooks and to show and tell others about what they had accomplished.