Heading North East from the little country of Andorra which we just completed our study on – we are ready to explore Germany!

MAPPING and ABOUT GERMANY

• Germany Travel website
• Stamp passports with flag, continent, country name, capital, languages, crest
• coloring page for Germany with flag and facts
• Fill in blank Germany map

LANDMARKS and LANDFORMS

• Black Forest
• Fairy tale castles! Inspired Disney movies

HISTORY

• The Berlin Wall
• Holocaust and WWII

CULTURE

• The Story of the Christmas Pickle Ornament (not really German… urban legend perhaps?)
• Fairy Tales from the German Forests – Brothers Grimm
• Oktoberfest

ARTS & CRAFTS

• Bavarian Lederhosen Toilet Paper roll craft
• German Paper Star Crafts – quilling and folding styles
• solve an online German jigsaw puzzle
• research Black Forest Cuckoo Clocks (Chalet, Carved, Antique, Shield and Modern)
• Moravian Stars – make out of paper another how to here

MUSIC

• listen to traditional German music – oompah!
• famous German Composers read about and listen to (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Schumann, Strauss and more)

FOOD

• pretzels
• sausages
• sauerkraut
• Black Forest Ham
• Bavarian Cream Pie