Teachers in charge of managing this activity: Linda Alexopoulou, Theodoros Tomaras, Estibaliz Vivanco, Sonia Quijano and María Jesús Ramírez.

Skills that you are going to strengthen with this activity:

-Competence in artistic and cultural expressions: you will improve awareness of classical mythology and its influence in arts and literature.

-Linguistic competence: you will strength basic skills in English, classical languages, literature and arts. You will also develop imagination and creativity.

-Social and civic competence: The debate about accepting the female monsters will promote gender equality and inclusion. Furthermore, working in international teams will improve your multicultural and multilingual competence.

-Digital competence: Search for and process information critically and sistematically. Collaboratively create and share digital content.

-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurial spirit: You will develop initiative, proactivity and innovation.You are going to create content.

-Learning to learn competence: you will be able to pursue and persist in learning, to organize your own learning, including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups through cooperative work and interdisciplinary methodology.

Assessment rubric

Professor Abraham Van Helsing, a fictional character from the 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker, is an aged polymath Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments.The character is best known through many adaptations of the story as a vampire hunter and the archenemy of Count Dracula. Wikipedia

Professor Abrahamus Van Helsing (Anglice Abraham Van Helsing), doctor universitatis, magister artium mysthicarum est in Dracula libro Abrahami Stoker scriptoris Hibernici. Doctoris instrumenta sunt: ossium claves ad ianuas effringendas, alii florum languidorum serta, crux argentea, rosarum silvestrium ramus et sorbi aucupariae arboris ramus. Vicipaedia

                                            Public domain image

                   Van Helsing poster belonging to the movie Van Helsing (2004)

Do you dare to help Dr Van Helsing capture the classical monsters in the museums of Bilbao and Athens?

Challenge in the museum

Looking for monsters in the Museum of Artistic reproductions of Bilbao (October

2021).

Looking for monsters in the Archaeological Museum of Athens (December 2021).

Looking for monsters in the Archaeological Museum of Athens (May 2022).

With the monsters captured in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (Calydonian boar, Hydra, Minotaur, Pan, Pegasus, Satyrs, Sirens and Sphynx), the transnational groups have to create a collaborative presentation with the Google presentation tool.

Our collaborative product: Van Helsing Guide in the Archaeological Museum of Athens