Shortly before Christmas, we tried something completely new with a fifth grade class at the cultural heritage site "Kinder von Golzow" film museum: programming your own digital game that you end up playing in analog form. And how does that work?
For three days, the children diligently created their own sounds, programmed game sequences, covered a 4m x 4m playing field with (very) many meters of adhesive tape, conductive and insulating, dealt with electric circuits and feet made of aluminium foil and then it was suddenly finished and even worked: a large, colourful playing field on which you always had to shimmy from one aluminium foil foot to the next in pairs (electric circuits!) and then even answer questions in between. If you lose your footing or can't answer a question correctly, the music stops and it's the next person's turn.
The children came up with the questions about customs and traditions themselves and then recorded them. The starting point was the first of the old films from the "Children of Golzow" film series: the first day of school from over 60 years ago.
Our conclusion: Yes, it works and it's a hell of a lot of fun!
A project of the Landscape Education at the Oderbruch Museum Altranft, financed by the Municipal Working Group Cultural Heritage Oderbruch.
