War Journalists
War Journalists
The pupils will live report “live” from a war: The Battle of Dybbøl in 1864 or Afghanistan today – choose freely among 500 years of Danish wars in the Danish War Museum’s exhibition ‘Denmark’s Wars’. We will discuss why countries go into war and what the pupils’ roles as journalists are in conflicts.
As war journalists, the pupils will travel back through time and choose a war that they will report from: who is part of the war? What is the conflict about? What can the objects tell us about the war? And what can we learn from the past?
The course will be in three parts:
- Why war? Here we will talk about the pupils’ knowledge and perceptions of war.
- War journalists in action! Here the pupils will work source critically with objects of the war in a “live” recording on iPads, all the way up close to a 1600s battlefield sword or yesterdays’ roadside bombs in Afghanistan.
- From conflict to war? We will end the course with a reflection on the pupils’ everyday conflicts and we will discuss when a conflict turns into a war and what the pupils’ roles are in this situation.
The pupils will borrow iPads at the museum.
Goals of learning:
- The pupil can reflect on war as a phenomenon and that the portrayal of war is always dependent on who is describing the war and that nothing in war is black or white, good or bad.
- The pupil can, with the help of the exhibition’s objects, images, films and texts research, dispose and mediate gathered knowledge about Denmark’s wars’ prerequisites and consequences.
Facts about the course
Target group: 6.-10. grade
Duration: 1½ hours
Maximum number of participants: 28 pupils and 2 teachers
Subject: History, Danish and Social Science
Price: DKK 750
Book an educational course
Email:krigsmuseet@natmus.dk
Phone: +45 4120 6080
Please list the name of the school, the year of the class, number of pupils, date and time for the desired course when you are booking.