Cuéntame la historia de tus abuelos: Ciencias Sociales, Matemáticas y Lengua en el grado de Educación Primaria

Opportunities sometimes emerge when teachers share what they do. This was the origin of this experience. At the beginning of the 2019-20 academic year, three teachers who shared a second-year group pursuing a Primary Education degree spotted an opportunity to offer the students a link between their disciplines, with the conviction that in primary education the proposals should form a continuum and not be presented as disconnected activities. From the perspective of the social sciences, the use of everyday objects belonging to the students' grandparents was proposed to tackle the curricular content (bottom-up). In mathematics, these objects were situated on a timeline, which enabled the reflection on patterns and numbering. Through language and literature, the story of the objects was constructed, located along a timeline to work on the structure of the narrative text. The experience was culminated with the creation of different narratives where these Primary Education degree students linked up the three suject areas. They learnt how to develop an interdisciplinary activity in all its richness, and they were able to tell us about their grandparents’ lives. The project was interrupted by COVID-19 and the ensuing confinement and it had to be adapted to the new situation