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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- 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
- 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