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Lesson on UN/UNESCO: Painting your culture
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Painting your culture challenges students to take a closer look at their own culture. After brainstorming about their own culture and heritage sites they are more conscious and more concerned about their own culture. This approach stimulates the students to put their own ideas in this activity. Painting your culture enables the students to be co-operative and creative and is therefore a fun approach to teach the students about their own culture.

Learning objective

- To gain more knowledge about their own culture
- To gain more communicative skills by discussing about this subject
- By working in groups, students will enforce their skills of co-operation and communication
- To stimulate creative/artistic expression of their own culture and origin

 

Participation
Target groups: secondary schools, youth and community groups (average age: 12 – 19).
We advise students to work in groups.

Practical information
This activity can easily be done under supervision of an art teacher. Probably, the art teacher can provide the materials:
- Start this activity with brainstorming about their culture and the heritage sites in their country
- Decide which heritage sites will be painted
- When the paintings are finished, the students can write an essay about the painted sites
- The students can exhibit their painting and give us more information about the painted sites

Technical information
You do not need any technology for Painting your culture.

Time Line

This activity needs little preparation; only the materials have to be prepared. According to the number and size of the paintings, this activity probably can vary from 1 hour to 4 hours.


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