flexibility in everyday life
The other Wednesdays will be FlexDays, where you have the opportunity to plan and manage your own time. For example, you can work hard on Monday evening and spend Wednesday morning training, doing errands, or something else entirely.
FlexDays give you freedom with responsibility. The teaching activities are asynchronous, which means they do not necessarily have to be completed on Wednesdays. They will include various activities that you can do before and after regular classes. This way, FlexDays allow you to prepare for upcoming classes and review and repeat what you have already learned.
But FlexDays are not days off. They are an opportunity to show that you can take responsibility for your own learning. You must submit a specific product or document your work – and you will be marked absent if you do not do so.
Overall, FlexDays give you balance in a busy everyday life – and prepare you for student life and adult life after Kolding Gymnasium. You can see examples of specific FlexDays here.
A week of extra freedom
The other Wednesdays will be FlexDays, where you have the opportunity to plan and manage your own time. For example, you can work hard on Monday evening and spend Wednesday morning training, doing errands, or something else entirely.
FlexDays give you freedom with responsibility. The teaching activities are asynchronous, which means they do not necessarily have to be done on Wednesdays.
Shield volcanoes – right in your oven (physical geography)
On a FlexDay in physical geography you let your creativity explode – literally. You have bake a cake that shows how a shield volcano is formed. As you shape the layers of dough and icing, you will learn how magma moves and why some volcanoes flow while others erupt. This is learning that can be seen, felt – and eaten.
The small and the big story ( history)
In history, you will work on the project "My family in history". You delve into the small history—your own family's story—and examine how it relates to the larger history of society's development, wars, welfare, migration, and changes in Denmark and the world. You interview your parents and grandparents and discover that history is not only found in books – it also lives on through you. Finally, you create a poster that is presented at an exhibition where everyone shows their stories. In this way, you experience how we are all creatures of history – shaped by the past, but with the opportunity to influence the future.
Write your own report (Danish)
You must write a report and cover the Kolding Light Festival. You can interview e.g. artists, visitors, or organizers, take pictures, and describe the atmosphere so that the reader really feels like they are present among the light installations. You must plan plan your time, arrange interviews, and combine your observations with lively and engaging language. Along the way, you will have the opportunity to experiment with angles, descriptions, and narrative style, so that your report is professional, informative, and exciting to read.
Create your own podcast(social studies)
FlexDay gives you time to immerse yourself in a social studies topic you are passionate about – e.g., youth well-being, sustainability, or politics. You can interview someone from outside your school, e.g., a local politician, a business owner, or a researcher. Because you can plan the day yourself, the interview can take place when it suits you best – even at times that would not normally work, such as Tuesday evening. In the following lessons, we use each other's podcasts as a starting point for discussing the issues, reflecting on different perspectives, and linking the experiences gathered with relevant theories and social studies concepts.
TheThe trip as a classroom (biology)
On FlexDay, you can take biology out into the real world. You can go to the forest, the lake, or the garden and study how plants, animals, and microorganisms thrive in their natural environment. You can measure the pH value of water, record species, or take pictures for your own little field study. Without classrooms and fixed schedules, you will have time to see connections that you would not otherwise notice every day daily life – and experience that biology is about much more than what is written in the books.