An official teaching guide by the MedienKompetenz Forum Südwest Foundation – jointly run by LFK Baden-Württemberg, Medienanstalt Rheinland-Pfalz and SWR – recommends Mina's Adventures for primary-school use.
Mina's Adventures is an audio drama musical especially suited for primary-school classrooms. It works particularly well in grades 1 and 2, where the audio drama can be combined with the matching app for tablet or smartphone. Especially fitting subjects are art, German and music.
Key facts for lesson planning — straight from the teaching guide.
Age
6 years and up
Duration
1–2 lessons
Grade level
Grades 1 & 2
Subjects
Art · German · Music
Three exercises from the guide
Ready-to-use ideas that combine audio drama and music with creativity. The complete guide with all exercises, tracks and materials is available as a free PDF download (in German).
1
Syllable Sing-Along
Warm-up · approx. 10 min · no materials
One child leaves the room; the class picks a long word like “Schifffahrtskapitän” and splits it into syllables. Small groups sing one syllable each – the returning child must guess the word. A playful entry into singing.
2
What do places sound like?
Creative audio piece · approx. 90 min · recorder
Following the prologue, kids invent their own places (“easy/hard to find”), describe each in a sentence and underscore it with self-made sound effects. A pocket-sized radio studio in the classroom.
3
Map of Ivastia
Creative drawing · approx. 90 min · watercolors
After listening to track 4 (“Beautiful strange world”) kids note the places mentioned — Mud Marsh, Pearl Coast, the flying tree house, Cantus Magus — and draw their own map of the magical island.
The teaching guide is published under the Ohrenspitzer project by the MedienKompetenz Forum Südwest Foundation (MKFS) – a joint initiative of three German public-service partners.
Since 2003, Ohrenspitzer has been fostering listening skills among children aged 3 to 14. ohrenspitzer.de
Bring it into the classroom
The interactive app for iPad and iPhone brings 14 animated chapters, six sing-along songs and the complete audio-drama musical into the classroom — perfect for tablet sessions and digital learning units.
State Media Authority Baden-Württemberg
State Media Centre Rhineland-Palatinate
Südwestrundfunk public broadcaster