3rd workshop: It's cold outside | Future Memory

1. Opening circle (10 min)

Big circle: How do you feel now, what happened to you during the last week?

2. How is it cold? (10 min)

Each particpant gets a word card in Annex 1 and they have to act out how that character would behave in very cold weather. The others try to find out who the character is.

3. Animals in winter (10 min)

Participants work in groups. Each group gets the pictures in Annex 2. Their task is to pair the animals with the things that help them get through winter. Several good solutions can be accepted. The facilitator encourages discussions on how we can help various animals in our environment in cold weather.

4. Poems (15 min)

Participants work in groups. Each group gets one of the poems in Annex 3. Their task is to look for words and expressions that are connected to cold weather. The groups present their findings to the others and say whether they like the poem or not.

5. Melting snowman (10 min)

Participants work in groups. They have to act out building a snowman (one of the participants should be the snowman) and then the snowman should melt.

6. Closing circle (5 min)

What are you taking away from this workshop? What was the best/ most difficult?
Which school subject would you connect this workshop to?

Annex 1

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Annex 2

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Annex 3

Christina Rossetti: In the Bleak Midwinter (detail)

In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter

Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush

I leant upon a coppice gate
            When Frost was spectre-gray,
And Winter’s dregs made desolate
             The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
             Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
             Had sought their household fires.

William Shakespeare: Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
  Thou art not so unkind
     As man’s ingratitude;
  Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
     Although thy breath be rude.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
     This life is most jolly.

  Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
  That dost not bite so nigh
     As benefits forgot:
  Though thou the waters warp,
     Thy sting is not so sharp
     As friend remembered not.
Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly…