Sejarah Dunia - World History

 

Hello again!

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And now to my actual post.

Starting last week we have been working on a special project with the children of my class.

It is a project about world history, or sejarah dunia in Bahasa Indonesia. Unfortunately I wasn’t feeling very well during the last week so I had to stay home for three days but on Monday I will certainly be able to go to the Oasis again, to make sure I learn something, too. ;)

In this project the children make a timeline with a long fabric. The timeline will contain all major events around the world from 3500 B.C. until today. So you can imagine that it is going to be very long. Afterwards we will hang it up in our little assembly hall. It should be long enough to wind it around the room in a spiral several times.

Later, we might let every child make a little presentation about one or more of the events and let them thus teach each other about the world’s history.

For most of the children, their world is pretty much limited to their own village. They don’t travel or anything, like almost every European does once in a while. Therefore learning about world history is important and interesting for them. Also because most of these things they never learn in school.

You can tell that many people here are pretty uneducated when it comes to history because there are many of them who, for example, actually like Hitler. Then again, people here also walk around in t-shirts with Osama bin Laden faces on them and some admire Gaddafi because “he was always so brave against the USA.”

You see that it is very important to teach the children history properly.

Enjoy the pictures. :)

The different years are seperated by colors.

Bunter and Ayu (picture above) sew the hem of the fabric, so it will hold longer.

The beginning!

 

Ida Ketut had to start because of his neat handwriting. :)

Ida Wayan and Budi

Made G and Toktek

Eka and Ani

 

Putu in full concentration mode.

 

For this project, teamwork is very important.

So much already! Everybody has got the hands full. :)

This is our little assembly hall in which we are going to hang up the timeline.