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