Teacher Material

Consult our recommendations for the development of skills before, during and after your visit to KidZania or download your educational guide:

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Before the visit

• Identify the skills and learnings that you want to work during the visit
• What are your indicators to measure the performance of competencies?
• What information do you need for the evaluation?
• Which KidZania establishments cover your academic goals?
• Do you have any project you can do in our facilities?
• What knowledge of various subjects can be enriched during the visit?
• Tell your students the objectives of their visit
• Ask your students about their knowledge of the topic or problem you want them to address and about KidZania
• Give your students time to identify and choose the establishments in which they want to play
• Identify what are your interests and preferences to plan the time of your visit and the activities that will be carried out
• Promote research on KidZania so they know where they are going
• Prepare with your students a graphic organizer about what they know and what they want to learn in KidZania about a specific topic to review after the visit
• It encourages your students to ask you questions about the topic or competence to work
• Plan time for your students to freely choose 2 or 3 establishments to which they want to go alone

 

 

During the visit

• Observe and record the performance of your students. Remember that in meaningful learning experiences you are allowed to observe them
• Accompany your students who require it and give them the help they need, but do not forget that it is important that they feel free and that they can alone
• Tour the city to identify the learning potential of your students
• Let them unfold freely by KidZania, so you can watch them
• Be flexible, allow them to change facilities if another interests them more than previously planned
• Allow them to explore freely
• Take advantage of the resources we offer to adults within KidZania
• After the visit
• Generate a space for your students to discuss their experience and reflect together
• Allow them to express their concerns, doubts, comments, feelings, etc. about your visit to KidZania. You can use resources such as drawings, stories, representation, free exposure, etc.
• Take together the goals you planned for the visit
• Take up the graphic organizer they created and invite them to complete it with what they learned
• Ask them to tell you how they managed their time and their kidZos, you can link it with math and project management
• Allow them to self-assess their general skills and competencies
• Identify the interest of your students to develop a project that enriches the experience more. Take them into account in planning so they feel motivated
• It is important that you consider landing with your students what happens in a real city and in KidZania, especially with children of 1st and 2nd grade, so that they differentiate the reality of fantasy and thus prevent dangerous situations
• Relate the visit and the topic or problem you want to work with your students