Who was Don Quixote de la Mancha? (LS-ES-46)

This Learning Scenario is intended for Primary Students (7-8 years old) that will be working collaboratively in groups with the purpose of developing their creativity and innovation. Students have to collect information and share among them in order to create a final task. They share and support different ideas and belongings by means of collaborating together. Through the use of Europeana and other online resources, students will develop digital literacy skills.

Discovering Don Quixote de La Mancha

The main axis of the project is the literary work Don Quixote de La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, starting with short and simple videos from the YouTube platform. It is also complemented with graphics and written resources that can be found on the Europeana website.

Don Quixote de La Mancha: a symbol of Spanish cultural heritage

This will allow our students to read the existing adapted works of Don Quixote de La Mancha. Students can also spread the Spanish language and culture in the schools, starting from Don Quixote. The can share the knowledge of Spanish cultural heritage through literary, architectural and pictorial works, but also integrate Spanish culture with other cultures present in the schools. That way, they learn how to respect them and consider them as a source of personal enrichment.

Awaking students to understand other cultures

The awakening of students interest in Spanish culture is one of the key element of this learning scenario. The aim is for them to know, value and respect our own and others’ basic cultural and historical aspects, our historical and cultural heritage. Overall, the lesson will develop their interest in others.

And develop interest toward digital cultural heritage

During this lesson, students have the opportunity to work on different areas: reading, using ICTs as support to develop activities and establish a first contact with the Europeana website.

The purpose? Introduce digital cultural heritage in the following projects that are carried out, enrich digital learning materials with cultural data and inspire learners of all ages.

According to my national curriculum, the topic of the learning scenario fits properly with the main goal of the curriculum. Indeed, at this level, the learning scenario develops students’ key competencies as shown in the Educational Law and, therefore, we can cover all of them with the activities carried mainly in Spanish Language and Social Sciences among the other subjects (i.e. Art or Social Values).

As we well know, cultural heritage often brings to mind artefacts (paintings, drawings, prints, mosaics, sculptures), historical monuments and buildings, as well as archaeological sites. But the concept of cultural heritage is even wider than that and has gradually grown to include all evidence of human creativity and expression: photographs, documents, books and manuscripts, and instruments, etc. either as individual objects or as collections.

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marcinjablonski says:

June 18, 2019 at 11:54 pm

Great LS, many media instruments which probably improves the attractiveness of the lessons.

annamariagauci says:

June 19, 2019 at 12:50 am

Great lesson! I like your idea of using Padlet and Kahoot as an effective tool to gather feedback from students during the learning process. Besides, you created opportunities for collaboration and sharing of ideas.
I also like the self-evaluation exercise at the end. This makes the students reflect on their learning and guides the teacher for future planning. For this purpose, my students have traffic lights faces on sticks to inform me how they feel about the activity and the reasons why. We do it orally as it is faster and easier with my younger pupils. Well done!

andreasgalanos says:

June 25, 2019 at 6:34 pm

Very interesting LS! A great way to introduce students to the work of Cervantes and the literary figure of Don Quixote! An excellent way to use the vignettes with the life and work of Don Quixote! I particularly like the final task which will be displayed for all the school to see. This is a great way of disseminating the project activities to the whole school community. Well done! I am sure your students enjoyed it greatly. The scenario could be also implemented in other countries either related to the subject of Spanish as a foreign language or related to the subject of Literature in order to familiarize students with this important literary text.

brendanbuttigieg says:

January 19, 2020 at 9:46 pm

Well done as this is a very inspiring LS! The topic is a very contemporary one and nowadays it is crucial to raise awareness about cultural diversity and the acceptance of people who might be coming from different cultural settings.
Thanks for sharing!

ivanabusuttil says:

April 22, 2020 at 5:26 pm

Hats off for such an interesting learning scenario! I really like your use of digital resources and thus they had the opportunity to work on important 21st-century skills. Apart from this, I believe that the use of technology in our activities helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. Well done and thank you for sharing.

Discovering Don Quixote de La Mancha

Don Quixote de La Mancha: a symbol of Spanish cultural heritage

Awaking students to understand other cultures

And develop interest toward digital cultural heritage

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