{"id":4807,"date":"2016-07-17T11:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T11:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2023-01-14T17:25:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T17:25:31","slug":"design-a-memorial-to-consolidate-knowledge-and-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/design-a-memorial-to-consolidate-knowledge-and-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Design a memorial to consolidate knowledge and understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/-62-300x228.\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-17 at 13.27.50\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>At the end of a study\u00a0project, challenge students to design a memorial to commemorate\u00a0the event, theme, topic or individual.<\/p>\n<h2>Example<\/h2>\n<p>I use this technique when studying Holocaust Memorial Day [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/hmd\/\">full resources here<\/a>]. First of all, I\u00a0ask students to consider what events in international, national and personal history deserve to be &#8216;remembered&#8217; and why. Then,\u00a0students research (or are presented with images of) different memorials from around the world to get some initial ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Then, they consider the following key questions to help them formulate their own concept for a memorial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What does the memorial get people to think about?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Will it focus on the causes, or on the effects?<\/li>\n<li>Will it encourage quiet reflection, or provoke violent debate?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What feelings does the memorial evoke?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Regret? Guilt? Hope? Sadness? Anger? Other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What form does the memorial take?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Sculpture? Mural? Gardens? Museum? Other?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where is it situated, and why?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In a city (which one? why?) In the countryside (where? why?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final stage is to design their own memorial either on paper or as a model.<\/p>\n<h2>Taking it further<\/h2>\n<p>Students could design memorials for any individual, event, moment or topic being studied. In History this could be wars, leaders and heroes; in science they could commemorate key discoveries and scientists and so on.<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/hmd\/\">Holocaust Memorial Project on ActiveHistory<\/a>: Freely downloadable worksheets and powerpoint resources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview At the end of a study\u00a0project, challenge students to design a memorial to commemorate\u00a0the event, theme, topic or individual. Example I use this technique when studying Holocaust Memorial Day [full resources here]. First of all, I\u00a0ask students to consider what events in international, national and personal history deserve to be &#8216;remembered&#8217; and why. Then,\u00a0students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[454,452],"tags":[581,113,490,580,582],"class_list":["bg-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classtools.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}