Title: Children's Folkgames 2000

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Subject Area: Childrens Folkgames

Specific Topic: Arts, Language and Social Studies

Goals

• Children will learn interviewing skills and techniques.
• Children will learn to respect and recognise the contribution of older people.
• Children will record the everyday games that they play.
• Children will research and record the games played by parents and older relations and neighbours.
• Art and photography - Children will create new images and ideas by combining the experience acquired in their games.
• Children will learn about social change - old games V's modern games.
• Children will learn the differences between urban / rural games.
• Children will anticipate the type of games in the future.
  
  Age group: 8 years and up
  
  Prerequisite resources
• Library
• Old school magazines; Old additions "Irelands Own" etc.
• Interviews with older relations and neighbours
  
  Use of Technology
  
• Editing a universal anthology with children's folk games, artworks and photographs.
• Tape recorder - to carry out interviews.
• A recorded tape of the edited work.
• A web site - to display finished work.
  
  Management - How will the project happen
• Preparation in the classroom - students write out games as played by themselves
• Students collect the games played by parents and Grandparents
• Students work in the classroom and computer lab,
• Time Scale - October 98 April 99
  
  Presenting
• Hard Copy ·
• Web Site
  
  Evaluate
• Pupils used their language skills to interview people in the locality.
• Pupils had opportunity to discuss the games and note similarities and differences.
• Different games were noted & discussed from different parts of the country.
• Pupils learnt about Ireland long ago & contrasted it with our present experience.
  
• Skills of editing were used to write up the games
  A valuable collection of the counting out rhymes, tongue twisters and games as played by a the Third Class of 1999/2000 is available.
  Tape not yet recorded.
  The Children's Folkgames site was not updated since the very beginning and none of the new games are on the site.