Comenius ::: Roots and Wings

As these places are really part of the "roots", students will visit a world heritage site in their region, learn about it and make a PowerPoint presentation of it. These seven presentations will be used in the partner schools to learn about these places and the regions of the partners. Moreover the students will be challenged to find some answers on extra questions made by all the other partner schools upon their UNESCO sites.

Here is our presentation, made by Julia Girkens, Isabel Mießeler, Nicole Schmitz, Judith Schramm and Meyrem Yücel. They also prepared our trip to Aachen/Aix-la-chapelle.

The "UNESCO World Heritage Site Activity" has started in February 2009. We visited Aachen on the 26th of February.
Here is the report from two students (Judith Schramm and Nicole Schmitz) about the day:

UNESCO World Heritage: Aachen Cathedral

We started off another COMENIUS-project:
The UNESCO World-Heritage-Site Activity.
Five students and two teachers selected the Cathedral of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) to represent Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. On this occasion we went to Aix-la-Chapelle and visited the Cathedral with the intention to explore Charlemagne’s historical roots. We were joined by further members of our COMENIUS-team, two students and Mr. Melenk our deputy headmaster and supervisor of our COMENIUS-project.
First of all we went on a guided tour. We saw the “Schatzkammer” (treasure chamber) and the cathedral. In the treasure chamber we admired the sarcophagus in which Charlemagne was originally buried and the Holy relics, some of which may contain several of Charlemagne’s bones.
After a brief stay in the “Domhof” (courtyard) we went into the octagonal cathedral, to see the two shrines. A highlight was the throne of Charlemagne. Here many of the medieval german kings were crowned. To see it, we had to go upstairs – now we were really close to the roots of our European history.
After this very interesting visit, we went to a pizza-restaurant in the marketplace and appeased our famished stomachs.
Before driving back to Mechernich we took a hearty sniff of the balmy waters of the Elisenbrunnen, a local mineral spring – it smells like foul eggs because of a high sulfur content.
All in all it was a very interesting day and we now do have enough information to do a good and interesting powepoint-presentation, which we will soon send to all our partner-schools.