EDUCATION
GUIDE
DIVERSITY
IDENTITY
EQUALITY
DIVERSITY
DIVERSITY
CULTURAL
ICEBERGS
Secondary school
TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND
Time (min)
10
Present the cultural iceberg
10
Ask students to create an iceberg for themselves
5
Present to a partner
15
Give the students 1 story from DHK to read.
Ask students to create an Iceberg for the Hero by:
• just by looking at the picture: filling the visible part
• After reading the story: filling the invisible part
• Add any things that they do not know about the Hero
10
Sharing their assumptions (on the iceberg) and extra questions they have to
complete the Hero’s cultural iceberg in small groups (4-6 students)
Interculturality
• What is a culture
• How can we learn about others and
their cultures?
Learning & teaching activities procedures
TO APPLY
• Prepare iceberg drawing on several
flipcharts
10
Invite DHK Hero to class which the students worked on the iceberg for him/her
• Example of a full iceberg
• Arrange and invite DHK hero to the
class or ask them to record a video
Finalize the questions you prepared to complete the iceberg
15
Hero can then tell more details about themselves mostly from the invisible parts of
the iceberg (where they grew up, their hopes, their dreams, their social status, etc.)
Students meanwhile are filling the iceberg
10
Q&A for the Hero to finalize the iceberg
10
Afterwards the Hero can assess the icebergs and comment to the students' efforts
to understand his/her culture
DIVERSITY
CULTURAL ICEBERGS
Secondary school
Interculturality
• What is a culture
TO KNOW & UNDERSTAND
Time
(min)
Present the cultural iceberg
10
Ask students to create an iceberg for
themselves
5
Present to a partner
15
Give the students 1 story from DHK to read.
Ask students to create an Iceberg for the Hero
by:
• just by looking at the picture: filling the
visible part
• After reading the story: filling the invisible
part
• Add any things that they do not know about
the Hero
10
Finalize the questions you prepared to
complete the iceberg
Learning & teaching activities procedures
10
Sharing their assumptions (on the iceberg)
and extra questions they have to complete the
Hero’s cultural iceberg in small groups (4-6
students)
• How can we learn about others and
their cultures?
TO APPLY
10
15
Invite DHK Hero to class which the
students worked on the iceberg for
him/her
Hero can then tell more details about
themselves mostly from the invisible parts
of the iceberg (where they grew up, their
hopes, their dreams, their social status,
etc.)
Students meanwhile are filling the iceberg
10
Q&A for the Hero to finalize the iceberg
10
Afterwards the Hero can assess the
icebergs and comment to the students'
efforts to understand his/her culture
• Prepare iceberg drawing on several
flipcharts
• Example of a full iceberg
• Arrange and invite DHK hero to the
class or ask them to record a video
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