Download - Emerging Project about Knights
Project:
Knights,
a quest in Middle Ages
This is a project I implemented during my internship at a public
kindergarten.
Year of implementation: 2016
Sinou Martha
Project Emergence
During a discussion the children mentioned a game in an educational software they usually used in free-play and requested information about knights. They wanted to know more about them and that was our key to unlock the door of an educational quest.
Development & Implementation of the Project
Activity 1: Brainstorming
At this phase we talked and children recorded with our help what they already knew about knights.
Activity 2:
Power Point presentation, commentary, emerging questions
Activity 3:
The creation of our own castle
Activity 4:
Division in two separate kingdoms
Activity 5:
Listing the kingdoms
Activity 6:
Creation of swords and shields
Activity 7:
Armour collaging
Activity 8:
Information Books
Activity 9:
Free design
Activity 10:
We learned the name and use of the knight's armour parts
Activity 11:
We created mini castle-toys with recyclable materials
Activity 12:
We searched on Youtube, found and listened to Medieval Music
Activity 13:
Knight's Accolade Battle
Activity 14:
Creation of our own story
Activity 15:
Illustrating our story (1/2)
Activity 15:
Illustrating our story (2/2)
Activity 16:
Making Horses
Activity 17:
Reading our story and putting our book in the class's
bookcase
Activity 18:
The children retelling their story
Activity 19:
Horse-races
Activity 20:
Free-play with play-dough
Completion Activities
Activity 21:
Visits to the other classrooms of the school in order to share the
class's story
Activity 22:
Quiz Completion discussion
The Project's poster