Helena Curtain introduces participants to the teaching of content in the elementary school foreign language classroom. Content is one of the three areas of emphasis (Content, Culture, and Language in Use) in the curriculum framework model developed by Carol Ann Dahlberg.

Helena Curtain listens to input from a participant on the results of brainstorming with a partner all the ways foods can be categorized.

In discussing how to stimulate language use and cognitive engagement, Helena challenged the class to find objects in the room that they predicted would be exactly 11 centimeters long. Here she measures a pair of sunglasses against a strip of paper as a ruler and finds that the glasses are exactly 11 centimeters!

In German, Helena introduces stuffed animals, insects, birds, and reptiles from varied habitats to the class, giving each participant one. Participants categorize their creatures by habitat by standing next to the appropriate habitat poster. Here are the two that live in "das Haus" (the house), a spider and a dog.

In this photo the group that had creatures of the ocean stand in front of the ocean poster, entitled "der Ozean die See."