The Power of Tea (EN-CUR-488) - Teaching With Europeana

Has tea lost its role in our daily lives? The habit of consuming unhealthy beverages has overcome the culture of drinking tea, which has lots of medicinal properties and health benefits.

Some people still cherish the tradition of drinking tea, others use if for its medicinal properties. The power of medicinal plants was once appreciated and recognized by our ancestors. Tea has its history but also it is part of the present. In this learning scenario, together with students, we will try to restore the recognition of the hot beverage we call tea.

This learning scenario has been developed during the English version of the “Europeana in your classroom: building 21st-century competences with digital cultural heritage (Rerun)” online course. The course aimed to improve teachers’ understanding of cultural heritage in order to efficiently integrate it into their lessons and practices. The courses can be accessed here.

Author: Jasna Milički

Age of students: 11-13

Subject and topic: Cross-curricular topics, History, Science, Information and Media literacy in Library / Tea in Present and the Past

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agnieszkapielorz says:

January 31, 2021 at 9:28 pm

This comment is based on e-implementation of the learning scenario “The Power of Tea” written by Jasna Milicki. I used this scenario with pre-intermediate students aged 19 – 21.
It was a very good way to combine knowledge of Geography, History and to revise the past simple tense in English. Therefore, the first thing which comes to my mind when I look into the original scenario is the fact that the topic is so easy to use and implement that you can choose any group of students and it will be very interesting for them. They could broaden their knowledge not only in English but also in other subjects.
There is a good deal of online resources. All the necessary historical material is found on the https://historiana.eu/ so for me it meant that I did not have to prepare my own resources but all of them I could find all of them ready-to-use in one place. I also love using https://padlet.com/ and https://www.canva.com/ so again I felt like a duck to water. However, thanks to this scenario I discovered https://matchthememory.com/ portal and https://www.click2map.com/ portal. I think I would like to use both of them in the future – students liked them very much and they could give a lot of possibilities to create enjoyable materials.
In my personal learning scenarios I usually use single resources from the Europeana Portal. Here Jasna uses not only them but also the collections and for my students it was a very good way to practice and develop English.
For not experienced teachers the drawback could be the fact that Padlet resources are in the Croatian language and, unfortunately, some links for worksheets are broken (the links go to files in a personal computer).
Generally, not only me but also my students appreciated that scenario which was a pleasurable way to revise some grammar!

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