Come and teach with Quake, a unique experience for unique students: yours
At Quake, knowledge takes pride of place. Here, students and teachers can understand and unravel the events of November 1st 1755, the fateful day that changed Lisbon forever.
As an educator, you know this better than anyone: children and young people love to learn but hate paying attention. Take your students out of the classroom and try, even if only for a moment, to make them look away from their mobile phone screens. Take them back in time to the day of the catastrophe, during the Age of Enlightenment. Help them to better understand how the shockwaves from the Great Lisbon Earthquake reached the present day. And, on the way, changed the capital of an Empire and shook the Old Continent, speeding up History.
Show and see up close how the Marquês de Pombal, then Secretary of State, reacted. He went down in History for the efficient and determined way he responded to the disaster, fulfilling three objectives: