Welcome to discover our offer for Creative school for the academic year 2024 and 2025.
To book a program within Creative School, contact Linda Liljeberg, pedagogy and time travel coordinator, via linda.liljeberg@kalmarlansmuseum.se or 0480-45 13 86.
Time travel is an experience for all the senses. Time travel is a pedagogical method with the goal of providing an overall picture of history, present and future. Time travel's activities and events are based on a role play where all students are active and participate in various practical activities. Through time travel, students can discuss and approach societal issues such as climate, gender equality and democracy in a playful way. The time travel takes place in a cultural environment near the school. A time journey, followed by reflection, offers a unique opportunity for new and expanded perspectives and in-depth learning. By exploring why society has developed as it has, we can integrate all school subjects and create meaningful and coherent teaching. A time journey is a collaboration between the school and the Kalmar county museum. It is planned together with the teachers concerned through a meeting. Participating teachers have clear areas of responsibility and are actively involved in planning, implementation and post-work.
We regularly carry out time travel to the following ages.
We gather for a tribal party. The children must learn everything needed for adulthood, such as music and crafts. When everyone gathers, we take the opportunity to talk about topics that concern everyone. Examples of questions: cooperation, sustainability and the environment, death, power, democracy.
Someone has called us together. Are laws to be written, or the plague raging? Exactly what depends on which year we travel to. Here it can be painting based on the virtues of the Middle Ages or working with pewter. There are many connections between the Middle Ages and our own time.
Dacke calls for rebellion among the farmers in Småland. But which path should your students choose? And what consequences would that have? Examples of issues: rebellion or peace, conflict, war, power, rumor spreading and source criticism.
In every settlement there are emigrants who leave Sweden. Have we gathered to say goodbye, or is it the mill or the farm that is changing with industrialization and globalization? Which path should I choose? Examples of issues: equality, gender, emigration, immigration and faith in the future.
Do not hesitate to contact us to discuss which historical era best suits your needs and wishes.
We hear the story of the Royal Ship Kronan; about the battle, the disaster, the people and what it was like to live and work on board. What was it like to be a child then compared to now? What happened if you became ill? Together we dive down to Kronan's wreck site where we discover the finds in the underwater environment and solve various tasks together.
In order to be able to devote as much time as possible to the students' creation and understanding of human conditions and experience of their own present during the 17th century, we will offer the school the guidance as preparatory work in the form of a film to watch in the classroom.
As follow-up work, we send you a compendium of facts and assignments, including pictures to cut out and color. Once here, we, with the younger students, go on a journey of discovery to the different environments in the exhibition. We explore the form and color language of the Crown, smell the spices, sing sailor songs, and play games like they did back then. We might even try loading a cannon! What do the finds from the Crown tell us about their time? What objects from our time would tell us about us? The crown is a time capsule of its time, Can we create a time capsule for the future?
We start in the large Kronan exhibition where, during a short guided tour, we tell the story of the ship, the finds, the diving, the people and life on board. Next, we focus on the research on the Crown. We work in small groups and perform various experiments in Superkronan's own lab within the sciences used in research on the Kronan. In order to be able to devote as much time as possible to the students' creation and understanding of human conditions and experience of their own present during the 17th century, we will offer the school the guidance as preparatory work in the form of a film to watch in the classroom.
Once here, we work with the older students – together, in small groups and individually – with the 17th century view of art, symbols and communication. We take a closer look at the sculptures and decorations from the ship and think about what they tell us, but above all, what they meant to those who lived then. What can a symbol tell that the written word cannot? We draw our own symbols and everyone makes their very own house mark that tells something about themselves.
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In the summer of 2024, we will inaugurate our new exhibition "Borgarnas ö" about life in the ancient towns on Öland during the Iron Age. The ancient cities on Öland were built and abandoned in a time (circa 200–600 AD) which in many ways resembles ours. Through research, we know that even then people were forced to deal with both pandemics, climate crises and conflicts. In one of the castles, Sandby Castle in southeastern Öland, archaeologists have found skeletons of murdered people, gold and beautiful jewelry inside the once high and thick walls. In the program "It was you who started", we use the exhibition and the events in Sandby Castle to reflect on our own times. Could something similar happen today? Why is there a fight? Are we becoming more human
violent when we are afraid? We work with conflict management and explore differences, change, tolerance and friendship. How can conflicts be handled without violence occurring?
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Our churches are full of metal objects of various kinds. They tell about Christian faith, symbols and traditions and are an important part of our common cultural heritage. They also show amazing craftsmanship. In the exhibition, unique objects from the county museum's collections are shown together with stories about the customs and practices of older and more recent times. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Church of Sweden in Växjö Diocese and the Kalmar County Museum.
In the educational program linked to the exhibition, we dive into the sparkling world of metals. We explore the secret symbolism of metals and the ritual significance various objects have and have had within the Jewish and Christian tradition. We start from different stories and proverbs in the Bible that connect to different metals and discuss how we can interpret these today. What does the expression "Speaking is silver, but silence is gold" really mean? We talk about goldsmiths and coppersmiths and create our own metal products.
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For thousands of years people have been telling each other. Storytelling can be pure pleasure but also nurturing, identity-creating, helpful in difficult moments, give us understanding for others and develop language. Today, words and images come to us in a rapid stream. No matter how old you are, it's nice to sink into the magical world of storytelling for a while and get to experience words, places and people you would otherwise never get to meet. It is an important part of children's development to be able to create their own inner images, experience emotions and figure out thoughts about what the stories convey. By listening and being able to tell the story, the children gain a wider vocabulary, better understanding of words and a more nuanced language. The program consists of a storytelling session and a workshop, adapted to the children's age, where the children's creativity and verbal ability can flourish.
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Do you want to create a better social climate in your classroom? Do you want your students to get better at standing up for themselves and others? Then our workshop in civil courage might be something for you!
In the classroom, we offer this workshop that deals with urgent and current social issues. Regardless of the subject, cultural heritage and history are always the starting point. With the support of a museum educator, students get the opportunity to discuss, argue, create and reflect on difficult questions about how they want to live and what world they want to live in - and how they can get there. Together we explore what you can do when you or someone else is exposed to something that doesn't feel right. How can we support and encourage ourselves and each other to speak up?
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My local environment then, now and in the future
The community around the corner is a workshop that explores the students' immediate environment. During two hours, we find out the meanings of places from a historical and democratic perspective. What do I need in my living environment to feel at home? What
am i missing Do conditions change over time? Do we all have the same requirements for our living environment? To make the concept of designed living environment concrete, we focus on what is closest to us – the classroom, the school yard and our own living environment. By exploring the significance of these places on an individual and societal level, we hope to provoke thought about their historical, present and future significance. During the workshop, we work with images to illustrate our image of the current and future society to each other. The workshop is based on "Travel to the future", but is adapted for the younger children.
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Since the mid-1980s, we at the Kalmar County Museum have traveled back in history, but in recent years we have also begun to travel forward in time. Join us on a journey into the unknown, to a time we ourselves create! In our journeys into the future, we move approximately 50 years into the future, to a fictional Kalmar county. The scenario is about the students' immediate environment having to be moved due to climate change. Now the students have the opportunity to shape their dream society! What do we want our local environment to look like? What do we want to keep and what can we live without? What is it in our local environment that makes it feel like home? How can we improve the environment and the climate? These are examples of questions that are discussed during the day.
With forecasts and research combined with a large dose of imagination, we portray a possible future in a role-playing game. Then everyone has to think about: How do I want the future to be and how do I create it?
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