Schnitzeljagd: Nachhaltigkeit auf dem Campus

8 July 2021

Description For this small project students are given a sustainability map of campus, featuring between 4 – 6 stations. Using the German language map, students navigate to each station, where…

Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s “Der Tunnel”

8 July 2021

Wir bewegen uns auf Schienen, der Tunnel muss also irgendwo hinführen. Friedrich Dürrenmatt Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s short story “Der Tunnel” lends itself well to textual analysis…

Diigo social bookmarking site for German environmental topics

10 June 2021

This site, maintained by Beth Kautz at the University of Minnesota, provides a continually updated set of links to topics of interest for environmental issues in German-speaking countries.

Denkanstoß – Nachhaltigkeit

10 June 2021

Level: A1 – C2 Description: ‘Denkanstoß – Nachhaltigkeit’ can be part of a daily classroom routine. Students are asked to write a definition of the term ‘Nachhaltigkeit’ and afterwards they…

Naturgedichte und ihr Kontext

10 June 2021

Level: Intermediate German Description: This work sheet asks the students to search the internet and find a German ‘Naturgedicht’ they like. Once they found a poem, the students are prompted…

Schmutzige Wäsche / Dirty Laundry

10 June 2021

Adapted from the film Schmutzige Wäsche – Umweltkiller Mode, and re-adapted from the Doku So zerstören unsere Klamotten die Umwelt. WDR 2019, Das Erste, Doku

Syllabus: Catastrophe! Natural Disaster in German Literature

12 April 2021

Target Level: B1-B2, C1-C2 Description: The following is a course description and reading list from a German literature course I developed and taught in Winter 2020. The class was a…

City Symphony Film Project

12 March 2021

Level: seminar in English, cross-listed between German and Environmental Studies, intermediate (200-level) Description The materials linked here were used for a creative assignment in a class about environmental film and…

EDEWA: Postcolonial Supermarket

8 March 2021

How might instructors address issues of both racial and environmental justice in the classroom?

Heatwave: Comparatives and Superlatives

8 March 2021

How might instructors incorporate information about increasing global temperatures into German lessons?
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