PROJECT EXPERIENCING HISTORY

Through a provocative method, students will participate in dynamics prioritizing discovery, investigation, and observation, using material specially developed by Ivian professionals, with maps, spreadsheets, and illustrative figures. With the help of our educators and historical characters represented by professional actors, students will be guided through time, going back to the 19th century.

The activity takes place at the historical points of the farm (coffee museum, main house, laborers' quarters, domestic quarters, chapel, and colony), where students should draw conclusions about the history of the place. The closing is done by one of our historians, who confronts the students' answers and complements them with important information and topics covered in the classroom.

THE PROJECT EXPERIENCING HISTORY WORKS ON THE FOLLOWING SKILLS:

Critical thinking – by interacting with characters and their conflicting stories.

Cultural repertoire – involves the foreign cultures of enslaved Africans and immigrants.

Communication – is necessary for students to work in groups and seek the results of the activity.

Argumentation – by acquiring knowledge and questioning the opinions presented.

Empathy and cooperation – among the group itself, with the farm, with the characters, and with other groups.

Responsibility and citizenship – are skills generated throughout the activity.

Locations: Fazenda Ibicaba, in Cordeirópolis, or Fazenda Nossa Senhora da Conceição, in Jundiaí.

Objectives - Aiming to enable the preservation and dissemination of the history of slavery, the coffee cycle, and European immigration, as well as to present schools with a teaching proposal through pedagogical tourism, where students can receive important information in History, Geography, Science, and Art in the same location, experiencing the addressed themes, Ivian develops this educational project, combined with ecological and leisure activities, aimed at elementary and high school students.

Duration: half a day.

For full day, the school must define two optional activities below:

From the Farm to the Cup - Through explanations and resources such as images, coffee seedlings, coffee samples, and the farm's own structure, our educators will show students, in an expository manner, all stages of coffee, from planting to reaching the final consumer. Students will receive a colored image that shows this entire cycle and will have the opportunity to plant a coffee seedling on the farm.

Playful activity on recycling - Through a large game, students will have to distribute recyclable materials, symbolized by images, into the appropriate containers, facing a great villain, “Mr. Pollution,” and answering questions related to the environment. In a fun way, students will learn about the importance of our participation in the recycling process.

Water collection and analysis - Conducted by Ivian biologists, this activity allows students to collect various information from the farm's lake water, such as turbidity, acidity, color, etc. The group will receive all the necessary materials for the development of the activity as well as a spreadsheet to record the results obtained. The spreadsheets filled out by the students will be delivered to the school.

Art - Based on the works of Vick Muniz, who plays with the illusion of vision. The viewer, upon seeing the whole, identifies something familiar, but when analyzing its content, getting closer to the image, perceives something else, that is, the material used which usually results, most of the time, in a tangle of shapes and colors. Students, like the artist, will use various materials to execute their works such as: coffee powder, sugar, dust, sand, pasta, chocolate, and everyday objects from an endless range. This activity can be developed in English!

Levels: Elementary 1, Elementary 2, and High School

Projects developed and executed by Ivian Educational Expeditions