Sunday, April 25, 2010

Making news

Making news to better understand news. When handling a theme in child group it can at some stage handle media as newspaper ore TV news. We had a interesting theme with dinosaurs that was handled in many ways but one interesting development was when we made an dinosaur fossil and let children dig like an archeologist to find the bones in a box with dirt.

The Fossil

We also made an newspaper with pictures and text about the findings. We had a local newspaper as example to se how it’s structured.

Dinosaurie Tidning

A child needs the guidance of adults to handle news. I heard from a child about the volcano outbreak on Island before reading about it in a newspaper. A child is exposed to news but don’t have the tools to fully understand them. And some news is not fore children.

The fossil ready fore exhibition