MEDITERRANEAN FOR KIDS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
Launched in 2019, we have transformed the Mediterranean for Kids program into an educational set in order to convey the history of Mediterranean culture and civilization to children with fun/interesting methods, so that children can get to know the geography they live in and gain a different perspective.
Our teaching kit consists of audio/visual storytelling videos, story books, and reinforcement activity books for students and teachers. Developed in alignment with the school curriculum, the aim is for volunteer teachers to apply this cultural heritage education program to students by using open sources. The program content can be applied individually or in the classroom by following the tabs on the left as open source.
For this purpose, our Directorate conducts training of trainers programs as well as sample workshop practices, and provides books and teaching kits to schools that request them.
MEDITERRANEAN STORY BOOKS
The contents of the Mediterranean story books are the main components of the Mediterranean for Kids teaching kit. The content of the story books especially support the units “Where We Live” in and “Cultural Heritage” in the curriculum of the 10-12 age / 5th and 6th grades of secondary school. Educational stories are historical narratives embedded in an interesting scenario for the appropriate age group. While the story book Akdeniz: İlk Zamanlar Ülkesi [Mediterranean: The Country of Early Days] focuses on the natural history of the Mediterranean, Akdeniz: Batık Geminin Öyküsü [Mediterranean: The Story of the Sunken Ship] is about the Mediterranean cultural history. For an effective use, we recommend that you consider the following points:
♦ Please consider that Akdeniz [Mediterranean] storybooks are educational material for informative purposes, not for free storytelling. It is important that students and instructors consider this.
♦ When the books are read after the audio stories, they will support the narrative and will help to obtain more productive results.
♦ For an effective comprehension, it is recommended that children complete the activity book after reading the story books – under the supervision of an adult if possible.
It is the short story of the 250 million-year-old great time of the Mediterranean geography, which begun from the Tethys and was home to the first wheat and the first settlement.
It is a surprising story that tells about the rich relationships and ties that Mediterranean countries have established over the sea for thousands of years, and introduces ancient cultures in a chain of events.
