The document describes a student's process of observing their own planning for a school project on fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm as their observation assignment. They decided to focus on planning an exhibition using materials like books, pictures, and a fairy tale exhibition. They worked with students to set up the exhibition and were surprised by how familiar the students were with Grimm fairy tales and their ideas to create their own exhibition and modern tales.

1. Observation Lab
How to observe the world around
you

2. How can somebody be
creative?
time pressure is as always the biggest
problem of all!

3. What to do?
Observe a store or an other place like
that, but that’s impossible
• I have to plan a small school project
• and besides that is the weather
miserable

4. What to do?
A lot of thinking before I get up in
the morning and before falling asleep
at night! The idea:

5. Why don’t I observe my
own planning of the
project?
Yeah, that’s it! It is not the
observation that I am asked to do,
but at least I don’t have to leave the
house or the school. And I get to
submit something…

6. Before I enter the
planning
• The subject is great:
Fairy Tails by the Brothers Grimm
• It makes me really happy to read the
tails in German and think about how
to make it easier for my pupils.

7. Material
I have a lot of material, books and CDs,
pictures and movies… and a whole
exhibition from Goethe Institute!
The exhibition is called
Märchenwelten - The world of fairy
tails!

8. Preparing…

9. Preparing…

10. The school enviroment
My pupils are always happy to do
something different and creative in
the school. They help me set up the
pictures.

11. exhibition

12. Biggest surprise
The biggest surprise was that the
pupils knew so many fairy tails by
brothers Grimm. They had so many
ideas how to make their own
exhibition and write their own
modern fairy tail.