"A First World War Trench Experience day trip without leaving Blighty!"
THE ZEITGEIST UK TRENCH EXPERIENCE: ADVENTURE OVER LECTURE
The Zeitgeist UK Trench Experience offers your students the chance to learn how during the First World War, millions of men ate, slept, lived, fought and died in the maze of trenches that once stretched across the Western Front, from the Channel coast to the Swiss border – all without having the complications of overseas travel!
OUR TOURS
Battlefield Medicine 1914-1918
MEDICINE IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR - SAMPLE TOUR
FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BLIGHTY
– BELGIUM
Developed in conjunction with FRONTLINE LIVING HISTORY, this or a similar tour would tie directly into the EdExcel GCSE Syllabus – Thematic Study and Historic Environment – Medicine in Britain and the British Sector of the Western Front 1914-1918: Injuries, Treatment & Trenches
Fritz & Tommy 1914-1918
A SHARED FRONTLINE EXPERIENCE - SAMPLE TOUR
FRITZ AND TOMMY
– BELGIUM & FRANCE
This unique tour examines the (often) shared frontline experience of the British and German soldier, taking an in depth look at the lives of the men of both opposing sides, examining cultural and military differences that have until now been left untouched by other school tour companies.
Total War - Verdun 1916
OUTSIDE VERDUN: THE FUTILITY OF WAR - Sample TOUR
THE BATTLE OF VERDUN
– FRANCE
It was the longest battle of the Great War and one that is still shrouded in myth and legend. Verdun is and will always be the darkest hour of French and German nations. It can also be considered the dawn of modern, industrialised warfare – an eternal symbol for the futility of war itself.
Waterloo - Black Powder
WATERLOO NAPOLEONIC EXPERIENCE - SAMPLE TOUR
WATERLOO – BLACK POWDER & STEEL
– BELGIUM
Developed in conjunction with DR BERNARD WILKIN & WATERLOO IMMERSION
WHY TRAVEL WITH ZEITGEIST - WHAT WE BELIEVE IN
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Children are not cogs in a machine and we care about their learning. We truly believe that we can change lives by believing in the students in our care, by motivating them to explore and by caring about them. We don’t believe it makes sense to put students on a grading curve or to lecture at them from above. We believe that by looking students in the eye and by responding to their specific comments and questions we can get them to push themselves to learn.
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires” – William Arthur Ward
Teaching is as much about inspiration as information. Effective teaching focuses on the why and how, not the what. On our tours we aim to spark each student’s imagination, to find a hook in their heart and mind so that they feel a need to ask questions and aspire to learn more. Our educators aim to ask provocative questions, and to help the students make a path towards finding their own answers. If they are motivated to find the path, they will carve it themselves. This will unlock skills that come along with studying history. The skills of evaluating evidence, of posing questions and answering them, of writing, of mobilising information in order to formulate a valuable argument.
WE EXPLORE
Our international team of historians and educators grants us the unique possibility to unlock hitherto untouched cultural and historical perspectives – issuing your students with accounts from ‘the other side’ and personal testimony of all those who were there, no matter what nationality. Through exploration, explanation, demonstration we aim to entice students to craft complex and incisive questions; think critically of oft one-sided historical sources; form and support their opinions with evidence; and communicate their conclusions in ways that will prepare them to be engaged citizens of the world. At Zeitgeist Tours we present history as a living, breathing record of the past.
ADVENTURE OVER LECTURE!
WE ARE ZEITGEIST!
A TEAM OF EXPERTS
VALUE FOR MONEY
QUALITY ACCOMMODATION
NATIONAL CURRICULUM
FULLY BESPOKE
WE CARE ABOUT OUR STUDENTS
WHAT THE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS SAY
Direct and social media feedback for our tours.
THE ZEITGEIST TOURPAL: FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918
From battlefield medicine to the causes of war, from the British Army to the history of women on the frontlines and at the home front, the Zeitgeist Tour Pal packs a wealth of important information and detail.
When booking a tour with Zeitgeist one copy will be issued to every teacher and student travelling with us. The Tour Pal is our vision of how we think modern and engaging study material should look and feel.
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