Anti-Semitism, extremism, compulsory corona vaccination, wars, natural disasters, the French election campaign, space or traffic: Topics like these do appear in school books, but not with new reading material every day.
When the newspaper becomes a textbook, that's different.
Pupils then trawl through the FAZ day after day in both printed and digital form for their own chosen topic.
They collect articles in folders, summarize them, create glossaries, comment, conduct their own interviews and even invent a quiz or a game.
And some make the whole thing even more complicated.
Patricia Andreae
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Around 800 schoolchildren from the Frankfurt area did just that again this spring – in the “My Newspaper” project of the FAZ and the Polytechnic Society Foundation, supported by the MCT media agency.
The comment of one student who studied the French presidential election campaign describes how many students felt: “I really enjoyed the project and even read other articles out of interest, and I was able to get one independently from my parents Form opinions and teach them something for a change.”
At the award ceremony by FAZ editor Carsten Knop and Anne Bachmann from the foundation, Arthur Podlesnov described how he learned how to create an e-book in the project.
The sixth grader did this on the subject of Russia/Ukraine and was successful.
In response to the question from moderator Tim Frühling, Irina Wende reported that she had learned more about the Holocaust during the search on her topic of anti-Semitism, which also received an award, than at school.
In addition, the prizewinners received adventure stays in Europa-Park and in the Steigerwald treetop path, Samsung Galaxy tablets, Tolino readers and the digital savings-learning pig MyPiggy.
All the other students have also benefited, as the teachers reported.
In addition to the award, entertainment was not neglected at the award ceremony in the Alte Oper: