Preparing the gymkana!

Once we had understood the concept of EU and how it works the question is: How are we going to explain the benefits of being a european citizen to the students  in secondary level? This is not an easy topic for us, and taking into account that they are not so young and very different people concerning cognitive levels, we thought that they should work with us to make themselves understand it. We just have to give them the keys. Then our problem is how to give them the keys in an attractive, fun and easy way to make them get interested in the topic. Having done lots of drafts and thinking, we reached the following conclusion: what everybody likes and is able to do is PLAYING!!!!

 

So we are going to get across our ideas by means of playing. Our plan is making a team game in which the six groups in each class are going to represent the "first" six countries that formed the EU after the second World War. These groups will have to find a key word by overcoming different obstacles, with this key word different obstacles, with this word key they will be able to open a treasure. What will they find inside them? They will find a card where a benefit of being a European citizen will be written. What will they have to do with it? They will have to explain their classmates their benefits and we will make a common mural with them to hang it in their classroom. Our objective with this activity is: fisrtly to teach the students that learning together is fun, secondly that being members of the EU is worthy for us and we, as teenagers should know what is it. We also want to show them,by making the final mural, that by means of working in smalls groups with a little bit of information, the whole class will be able to learn lots of things about the UE, just with the union of all our knowledge. We hope you like the idea, follow us!!