The education landscape has evolved significantly in recent years, with schools increasingly seeking meaningful experiences that complement classroom learning. In fact, school trips that combine outdoor exploration with cultural education are more valuable than ever, offering students hands-on learning opportunities in a dynamic urban environment.
Modern educational approaches emphasize responding to changing needs and demands from students and society. As an result implementing activities where students learn outside the classroom remains essential. In this context, outdoor guided tours present a particularly effective option for engaging young minds.
- Activities for students in Madrid
- Available experiences in Barcelona
- Groups visiting Málaga
- Bilbao art tours
Primary education: how do school trips contribute to core curriculum goals?
Are you planning on organizing school trips for 5th and 6th grade students in the upcoming months? You’ll discover the capital in a different way, focusing on analyzing the messages hidden behind urban art and the best artistic graffiti.
Our school trips to Madrid have been created and designed by a teaching team with years of experience in the cultural and educational sectors. We’ve accordingly incorporated core curriculum elements to give complete meaning to the learning process that unfolds outside the classroom.
These are some of the objectives that 11 and 12-year-old students will internalize and be able to use in their daily lives.
1. Attention to diversity
During Cooltourspain school trips, our guides’ educational approach considers student diversity as a basic principle.
We understand that this guarantees the development of all students according to individual needs. Our working ratio is of 13 to 15 students maximum per guide, reducing the ratio that exists in most classrooms.
We offer tailored education this way, adjusting to each specific group. Additionally, all our routes are adapted for students with reduced mobility.
2. How do the school trips in Madrid support civic education?
The school trips in Madrid and the related activities developed for primary students also showcase aspects related to knowledge and the exercise of civic rights and responsibilities.
Our guided tours in Madrid focus on training future citizens as people with their own criteria, respectful, participatory and supportive, who know their rights, assume their duties and develop civic life habits.
Through analyzing the messages hidden in urban art murals, we’ll achieve the desired objective. We want students to reach conclusions on their own, based on the artistic works observed during the tour.
3. Art education objectives
The world of graffiti doesn’t have to be synonymous with vandalism. If the school trips were approached as one more artistic and learning movement, we’d all succeed in removing that negative stigma society has created around it.
Additionally, we add a linguistic component during the explanation as we discuss specific techniques and vocabulary: street art, graffiti, tag, abstract, figurative…
In short, we emphasize knowledge of different artistic codes. We help students this way to begin perceiving and understanding the world around them and to expand their possibilities of expression and communication with others.
Why we recommend school trips in Barcelona for high-school students?
The next school group to benefit from our original educational experiences are students between 12 and 16 years old. At this age, taking students on a guided tour through central Barcelona could become a difficult task, but as soon as you mention graffiti… you usually have their full attention!
One example is that during the school trips around Raval district, the mobile phone use is allowed for taking photos and documenting the tour. We do this so they can complete a follow-up assignment about the activity.
Ultimately, we offer action-based learning. Participants will have to put themselves in a graffiti artist’s shoes and imagine what their daily work would be like.
4. Achieving foreign language goals in Andalucia
One of the strengths of these school trips in Málaga is that they’re available in multiple languages. Consequently, we conduct tours in Spanish, English, and French, making them accessible for schools from around the world.
For students learning any of these languages, the tour provides practical communication practice in an authentic setting. They develop listening skills, expand vocabulary, and gain confidence using the language while exploring Madrid’s urban art scene.
5. Guiding students toward their future career through school trips
At certain ages, students have many doubts about what to do when they grow up. That’s why it’s essential that school trips are capable of showing them one more job opportunity within the market.
Today, the graffiti artist figure is highly valued in contemporary art circles. Many of these graffiti ‘writers’ work full-time, offering professional services as well as commissioned work.
So students can get an idea of what an established artist can charge to paint a wall, we give them examples of several Cooltourspain team members. Whether they’ll be guide, fine arts graduates and/or working artists.
6. Principles of society and physical environment interaction
Modern education emphasizes understanding social facts and the phenomena in the context where they occur. Moreover, the school trips help analyzing the processes of historical change in society.
In this sense, the routes we’ve prepared through the Lavapiés and Malasaña neighborhoods will help the group adjust to required content in social sciences, geography and history.
Not only will they be able to observe the passage of time through buildings and the inhabitants who live in them, but they can also analyze different historical events such as the feminist movement and the 15M movement.
School trips for high school art students in Bilbao
Without a doubt, our school trips could be especially leveraged by those students who are taking a high school program related to fine arts.
These students, due to their age (16-18 years), will enjoy this activity the most. They’ll learn technical and artistic resources used in the post-graffiti branch.
School coordinators or heads of studies will be able to observe several of the curriculum objectives included within these alternative cultural experiences.
7. Contributing to develop various social capacities in students
Educational standards establish that students should consolidate personal and social maturity that allows them to act responsibly and autonomously. Additionally, they can develop their critical thinking and resolve conflicts peacefully.
They’ll develop artistic sensitivity through an urban art tour in Bilbao’s La viaje district. Expanding an aesthetic criteria, as sources of training and cultural enrichment.
Finally, they’ll know and critically assess the realities of the contemporary world, its historical background and the main factors of its evolution. They’ll participate in solidarity in the development and improvement of their social environment.
8. Technical objectives in drawing
- Graphically represent objects with marked volumetric character through line and shade, knowing how to translate volume through planes of grays. The observer analyze the influence of light on understanding form representation.
- Know the basic laws of perceptive association and interpret the same form or set of forms with different communicative or expressive intentions.
- Know how to interpret the same form or object at various iconic levels (sketch-diagram-draft) based on different communicative intentions.
What is Cooltourspain’s opinion about the school trips?
We think it’s a completely different way to bring modern art closer to students. Therefore, we’ve specialized our school trips in graffiti because it’s what we love and because we think it’s worth it!
As you’ve probably already realized, we have very clear ideas and believe this type of tour is intimately related to the objectives of different educational stages.
In short, get in touch with us, write us an email and we’ll help you organize your school trip to Madrid. We guaranty an activity your students will never forget. +34638399784
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