Visitors Explore Key Questions at the 'GDR – 35 Years of the Fall of the Berlin Wall' Exhibition

In the past few weeks, the students of Class 4D eagerly embarked on a time travel journey into the history of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) and the fall of the Berlin Wall. After an introduction to the topic, they came up with questions they would like to ask witnesses of the time, and then conducted interviews with two people who were born and raised in the former GDR.

These conversations provided them with valuable insights into life in East Germany at that time.

With these impressions in hand, the students deepened their knowledge through research in books, fact files, children's reports, and videos. They gathered all the important and interesting information in a shared Canva document, which served as the basis for a timeline. In the meantime, the students drew appropriate pictures to accompany the selected topics and translated their texts into English, so that non-German-speaking students, parents, and teachers could also get informed. In the classroom, posters for the timeline were measured, cut, and glued together, and all materials for the timeline were arranged before the timeline was displayed in the lobby.

To make the exhibition interactive, the students also developed a quiz. Visitors could test their knowledge via a QR code on the timeline.

But when did the Wall actually fall? And in what year was reunification?

Test your knowledge: https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pfy27xqra24

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