We provide materials for each phase of your virtual exchange to help you guide your students through this unique cross-cultural experience. GAVE (German American Virtual Exchange) is available in German (Language Track) and English (Culture Track). Each track consists of materials for students (interactive Pdfs) and handouts for teachers.
Preparation materials for teachers
Here you will find all of the resources you need to plan and organize your virtual exchange (in English and German):
The GAVE Blueprint – a guide to planning your virtual exchange
Student Bio Form – a form to collect information to help with partnering students
Online Tools – a list of optional programs and platforms to use in your exchange
A GAVE can be completed in German and English in the Language Track, or in English only in the Cultural Track.
The GAVE program is divided into topics that all follow the same framework, or ‘Fahrplan.’ Each student-centered topic includes introductory Get-to-Know-You tasks and more in-depth Exchange tasks, where your students will have fun while learning about the German language and culture as they interact with their German counterparts.
GAVE Exchange topics Language Track
German language level: A1-A2 / English language level: B1-B2
Students will learn more about capitalism and socialism as they relate to the former East Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States.
All materials are in English. English language level: A1-B2
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Transatlantic Politics
In the election super year 2024, we invite students on both sides of the Atlantic to explore the political systems of Germany and the United States with our new GAVE package “Transatlantic Politics.” Both the US and Germany are federal democratic republics with bicameral legislatures, but their systems operate in unique ways. How so? Who can propose new legislation? Which branch of government votes on new laws? What are the electoral systems for the German Bundestag and the United States House of Representatives like? How do the written constitutions—the German Basic Law and the United States Constitution—that grant fundamental rights compare? Where do they differ?
Finally, we invite students to explore legal issues in their community and to imagine that they have been ‘hired’ by a local travel agency to create a brochure for their state/Bundesland, highlighting its unique attractions and encouraging visitors to explore its charm.
All exchange materials are in English. English language level: A1-B2.
The culmination of the exchange experience involves reflecting on the program and meeting with your exchange partners as a group to present your projects. Here are the materials you and your students need to reflect on your German-American Virtual Exchange.
After completion of your exchange, please fill out the GAVE Documentation and Certificates Request Form to provide GAPP with details of your completed exchange send it along with 2-3 exceptional examples of student work to gapp@goethe.de.
German American Partnership Program
c/o Goethe-Institut New York
30 Irving Place
New York, NY 10003, USA
Tel.: +1 212 439 8700
Fax: +1 212 439 8705 gapp@goethe.de
