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MAGELANG: Cultural Visit to Borobudur Temple
On Wednesday 3 May 2006 all the children in grades 3, 4 and 5 from SD Kemirirejo 1, one of the MBE partners schools in South Magelang Sub-District, made a cultural visit to Borobudur temple. This was an out of school activity to support the PAKEM program.
During this cultural visit the children learnt directly about Borobudur temple, the Samudraraksa Ship Museum and the Karmawibhangga Stone Museum, not from their text books but from direct experience and explanations by tour guides at Borobudur temple.
The class teachers who accompanied the group during this activity had planned an active learning experience for their students. Preparations for the lesson included the students' preparing questions to ask during the visit (see photo on the right).
To make it easier for the guides to give their ex-planations, the students were grouped according to their class. There were three large groups for the visit, one each for grades 3, 4 and 5. Each group was accompanied by two teachers and a guide.
The reason for this grouping was to make it easier for the accompanying teachers to supervise the students in carrying out their tasks and make it easier for the guide to give information about Borobudur temple and the museums they visited.
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Grade 5 students listening carefully and seriously to Bpk Wito (a tour guide) telling them about the carvings on the walls of Borobudur temple.
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After they arrived in the area of Borobudur temple, the students and the accompanying teachers listened enthusiastically and noted down various information that the guides gave them about:
- The history of the construction of Borobudur temple
- The kinds of decoration on Borobudur temple and the various levels of the temple
- The objects in Samudraraksa Ship Museum and the Karmawibhangga Stone Museum
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While the students were listening to the guides, some of them asked questions from the list which they had made, then they noted down in their writing books the answers they were given. This was used as material for writing a report about the visit.
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Grade 3 students noting down the guide's explanations
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While there were enjoying the beauty of Borobudur temple, the students made observations, notes and asked questions of the guide about the carvings on Borobudur temple.
At the end of the activities, the grade 3 and 4 students wrote a description of their visit to Borobudur temple and answered questions given to them by the teachers who accompanied them to the temple, while grade 5 students made a report of the visit.
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Students, teachers, the school principal and tourist police photographed together before the visit to Borobudur temple.
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