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In order to prepare your visit, the educational department of La Coupole provide you five worksheets specially adapted to the different levels and programms, both in History and Physical Sciences.

Primary school level: (from 10 to 12 years old)

« I was 9 in 1940… » (History)

This circuit try and help the pupils understand, by studying videos, photos, objects, what a child’s life might have been like in France during the dark years, through the fictional history of a small boy called Paul. This circuit takes the form of four sheets, the first to be filled in during class and the following three to be completed during the visit.

	Forword (513 ko)		Fiche 2 (359 ko)
	Presentation (294 ko)		Fiche 3 (296 ko)
	Fiche 1 (372 ko)		Fiche 4 (338 ko)

« The space adventure » (Sciences)

This tour retraces the various stages in the conquest of space and shows how the rocket, originally intended to be a weapon of war, has become a symbol of reconciliation between men.

College level: (from 13 to 15)

« Daily life in the occupied Nord–Pad-de-Calais region »

For four long years, the population of these two departments had to live with the enemy. The humiliation and the harshness of the Occupation were compounded by countless material problems. Finding food became the obsession of many inhabitants.

The black market enabled them to top up their meagre rations, but at a heavy price !
The situation was often worsened by the separation of families. One can appreciate the importance of sport, song and cinema, which helped them forget their daily problems for a short time.

A series of five sheets help pupils understand the fate of this population, based on the study of mostly unpublished images.

	Presentation (755 ko)		Fiche 3 (386 ko)
	Fiche 1 (466 ko)		Fiche 4 (447 ko)
	Fiche 2 (416 ko)		Fiche 5 (596 ko)

Secondary school: (from 16 to 18)

« War and the rights of Man » (History)

This tour offers a global approach to war that focuses on the infringement of the rights of Man.

After the invasion in May-June 1940, the violence inherent in the Nazi regime was expressed in a series of massacres of civilians and prisoners. The analysis focuses on the case of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais departments, threatened in the long term with being annexed to the German Reich.

During the entire Occupation, from 1940 to 1944, all freedoms were denied and an implacable police repression descended on all those who opposed the Nazi presence. It led to the execution of thousands of human beings (hostages, resistance members, Jews, Gipsies).

A series of five sheets helps show how the Second World War, at its height, negated the rights of individuals, going as far as deliberately programmed mass murder.

	Presentation (494 ko)		Fiche 3 (613 ko)
	Fiche 1 (524 ko)		Fiche 4 (548 ko)
	Fiche 2 (327 ko)		Fiche 5 (416 ko)

« Rockets from the A4 to the Saturn V » (Sciences)

This tour examines the conquest of space, from the pioneers to Man’s first steps on the Moon. It recalls the manufacture of the first missiles in the context of the Nazi concentration camps : it is possible to study the A4 in the centre.

The tour emphasises the notion of movement in quantity and Hitler’s secret weapons in connection with the history programme.

	Presentation (699 ko)		Fiche 3 (414 ko)
	Fiche 1 (430 ko)		Fiche 4 (457 ko)
	Fiche 2 (462 ko)		Fiche 5 (424 ko)

Deportation and genocide (1939-1945), a European tragedy.

The aim of this questionnaire is to help you understand the exact meaning of the deportation of persecution, and deportation of repression.

Fiche 1 (269 ko)