Das antike Griechenland und die griechische Kultur

Objective: This worksheet aims to provide learners with a basic understanding of Spanish history and to practice their written communication skills.

Content and Methods: It covers the origins and key periods of Spanish history, including historical facts and a fictional letter from the past. Methods include listening and reading comprehension, multiple-choice and true/false questions, and a letter-writing task.

Competencies:

• Listening and reading comprehension
• Historical knowledge of Spain
• Written communication

Target audience and level: Spanish learners at B1 level

This worksheet aims to provide students with a multifaceted understanding of the historical and emotional complexities of immigration at a border. By combining historical facts with empathetic role-playing, students explore the challenges, legal hurdles, and personal stakes involved in seeking a new life.

Content and methods: The worksheet utilizes a blend of historical reading, audio-based interaction, and creative writing. It provides a text on a country's immigration policies to establish historical context. Methodologically, it shifts from factual comprehension to perspective-taking by prompting students to listen to border official questions, write a reflective essay from the viewpoint of an immigrant, and analyze the internal emotional landscape of those facing interrogation.

Competencies:

• Historical Literacy: Understanding historical immigration laws
• Empathy and Perspective-Taking: Analyzing the emotional burden and fears of immigrants during the entry process
• Listening and Writing Skills: Processing oral questions and articulating detailed personal narratives in an essay format
• Critical Reflection: Evaluating the consequences of refusal and the ethical implications of national allegiance and bias

Target group: Grades 9-12 (High School)

This worksheet aims to introduce students to the "trolley problem" as a fundamental ethical dilemma, encouraging them to evaluate moral decision-making through the lens of different philosophical theories and their modern application in artificial intelligence and autonomous driving.

Content and methods: The worksheet uses a multimedia approach, starting with a video-based discussion of the trolley scenario. It then provides informative texts on utilitarianism, deontology, virtue ethics, and moral relativism to facilitate theoretical understanding. Students apply these concepts through comprehension questions, analytical writing tasks, and a creative "pitch" presentation where they role-play as programmers to address the ethical challenges of self-driving cars.

Competencies:

• Ethical reasoning and moral judgment
• Application of philosophical theories to modern technology
• Critical thinking and perspective-taking
• Argumentation and presentation skills
• Reading and media literacy

Target group: Grade 10 and above

Objectives

The goal is to learn the Jigsaw method as a way to independently explore complex philosophical models of thought. Participants engage objectively and critically with fundamental questions of existence and evaluate them through academic discussion. The sample content serves as a flexible template for systematic method training.

Content and Methods

This Worksheet uses a cooperative Jigsaw structure to explore core philosophical ideas. After an individual specialization phase, students deepen their knowledge in expert groups and then share it in home groups. Results are organized in a table that highlights major works and key theses. A short, fictional role-play at the end places each position in a contemporary context. All content choices - both the selection of philosophers and the theories - are designed to be interchangeable.

Competencies

• Subject Knowledge: Understanding central philosophical movements and the ability to concisely summarize complex models of thought.
• Methodological Skills: Confident use of the Jigsaw method as a cooperative learning approach and proficiency in focused academic research.
• Critical Judgment: Objective engagement with differing worldviews and their relevance for contemporary epistemology.
• Social and Communication Skills: Responsible peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and facilitation of perspective-taking through role-play.

Target Group and Level

Middle and upper secondary

Learners critically examine the supposed neutrality of algorithms and understand how AI systems can reproduce and cement social inequalities.

Content and methods:

The worksheet provides a theoretical introduction to the problems of machine learning and illustrates these using a case study. By analyzing factual texts and working through reflection questions, learners examine mechanisms such as the “black box problem,” proxy variables, and the ethical consequences of algorithmic decisions.

Skills:

• Recognizing bias in technical systems and questioning the objectivity of data.
• Discussing responsibility and accountability in the context of automated processes.

Target group:

Grade 11 and above.

Learners gain an understanding of the consequences of colonialism by focusing on various aspects of a selected (former) colonised nation.

Content and methodology: Learners begin by examining a photograph related to colonialism. Based on this, they acquire basic knowledge about the concept and circumstances. The individual focal points of the station work are: history of a colony, social consequences, political consequences and colonialism in the present day. Based on these focal points, learners acquire comprehensive knowledge about the consequences of colonialism and its effects on the perception and living environment of a selected (formerly) colonised nation.

Competencies:

• Explaining and examining one's own and others' value orientations
• Reconstructing historical facts (reconstruction)
• Explaining the effects of political, economic and social structures and processes on people's lives and experiences

Target group and level: 8th - 10th grade

Note: Due to the volume, creation takes longer.

Learners develop an understanding of the conditions and motivations of resistance groups and resistance fighters against National Socialism.

Content and methodology: Using a selected example, learners can explain everyday life under the Nazi dictatorship between consent, oppression and resistance, and assess the effects on the stability of Nazi rule.

Competencies:

• Recognise the possibilities and limitations of individual and collective action in historical situations and discuss alternative courses of action.
• Analyse historical facts in their context (multicausality).
• Reconstruct historical facts (reconstruction).

Target group and level: 9th/10th grade

Objective: The worksheet aims to raise learners' awareness of the opportunities and risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI). They should learn to analyze different perspectives and make critical decisions in this controversial field of the future.

Content and methods: Learners first develop their own definition of artificial intelligence and are provided with a content basis through a case study. Using tables and role analysis, they evaluate opportunities and risks as well as the perspectives of various actors. Finally, they take a reasoned position in a decision-making task and reflect in a group on rules for the responsible use of AI.

Competencies:

• Understanding AI: Defining and distinguishing between the opportunities and risks of AI.
• Changing perspectives: Analyzing complex problems from different roles and attitudes.
• Critical thinking: Weighing technological progress against ethical and social risks.
• Decision-making skills: Developing well-founded decisions in a controversial context.

Target group and level: The worksheet is aimed at students from the 8th grade onwards and is also suitable for upper secondary school.

Students explore the origins of artificial intelligence (AI) and examine one stage of its development in detail.

Methods and content: The worksheet begins with the historical and philosophical roots of the idea of AI. Text analysis and multiple-choice questions are used to explore the philosophical foundations laid by René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. In the second part, practical developments are examined on the basis of a selected event. This involves analysing an audio source and completing transfer tasks. Finally, as an optional extra, a chronological sorting task can be completed as part of a video analysis to classify important historical milestones.

Skills:

• Critical thinking: Analysis of philosophical arguments and answering multiple-choice questions.
• Media literacy: Use of audio and video sources to obtain and summarise information.
• Transfer skills: Transferring historical observations to modern AI applications and evaluating their significance today.

Target group and level: From Year 7 onwards.

Students investigate how artificial intelligence is transforming a specific field, gaining an understanding of both the benefits and challenges of AI. The goal is to develop critical awareness of AI’s capabilities, ethical issues, and the ongoing need for human judgment in decision-making.

Content and Methods:

The worksheet guides students through an exploration of AI in a specific field by examining real-world examples. Students analyze ethical concerns. Methods include comprehension questions, multiple-choice tasks, comparison of benefits and risks, open-ended reflection questions, and a short argumentative essay about AI’s role in that field.

Competencies:

• Understanding technological applications of AI in a real-world professional field
• Critical evaluation of the benefits and risks of AI in that field
• Ethical reasoning about data privacy, bias, and human–machine interaction
• Analytical thinking about the balance between AI capabilities and human expertise
• Argumentative and reflective writing skills

Target Group and Level:

Grade 8 and up.