Egypt -theme week
Helsinki, Finland November 2020
In Finland the the history studies start on 5th grade. In the month of November the students had a theme week with Egypt, which was highlighted with a visit to an exhibit called The glory of Egypt in the Amos Rex Museum in Helsinki https://amosrex.fi/en/exhibitions/egypt-of-glory/
In addition to seeing real mummies the students got to experience a three dimensional virtual tomb by using their phones. At the school the students saw documentaries from Egypt and studied and made art with hieroglyphs. There were also many discussions about death, the building techniques of pyramids, mummies and death.