Europeana Classroom

If you are an educator, a learner or a parent interested in innovative learning, this is your place! Here you can find a selection of educational resources using digital culture

Highlights

Women's history

Discover notable women and their work throughout history
Distance learning

Lesson plans and tools for remote learning activities
#reinventingBeethoven

A creative educational challenge
Blog
Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was chosen in 1972 as the official anthem of the European Union

Learning scenarios organized by

Methodology | trend

STEAM, PBL, IBSE, CLIL, Edutainment
Cross curricula subjects

Environment, citizenship, migration and more
Other European languages

Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Greek, Polish
Level of education

Primary, Secondary, VET

Participate and co-create

Historiana

This virtual learning environment offers innovative distant learning tools for history and citizenship education

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Transcribathon

Crowdsourcing inititive and competition to transcribe documents from Europeana Collections

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Blog
Colouring Books

Find your crayons! Sharpen your coloured pencils! And enjoy adding colours in one of the books we have prepared for you.
Share your migration story

Sharing your migration history can help us to tell a really big story - the story of Europe and the people who live here.

Featured topics in Europeana with learning resources

Diversity & Inclusion

Find resources to learn and teach about inclusion and diversity

LGBTQ+

Stories, narratives and cultural heritage from all around Europe
European identity

Discover curated content about European identity, its common culture and history, but also the diverse national celebrations and traditions
Pandemics

Discover digital resources to talk about science, medicine and other social impacts of pandemics

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Apps & Games

Share3D Storymaker

Learners can explore, create and experience 3D objects as stories through Europeana and Sketchfab content

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Birdy Memory

Birdie Memory introduces primary school children to birds and their unique songs by using a mobile app in combination with a visually animated poster.

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11-11: Memories Retold

11-11: Memories Retold is a game about WW1 through the eyes of two soliders on different sides of the war.

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Wonders

In Wonders kids are invited on a discovery tour of 13 exciting locations across the globe and asked to complete various challenges to learn about these sites.

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Training tools

MOOC Europeana in your classroom

Learn how to build 21st-century competences with digital cultural heritage. Course available in EN, SP, FR, IT, PT
Europeana applied

Discover a series of short videos in which teachers explain how they use Europeana with STEAM, PBL or CLIL

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Historiana training guide

Teacher trainers can find practical information on how to set up a workshop and challenges to make eLearning activities
GIF tutorials

Never made a gif? No worries! Just check one of our online tutorials

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Video tutorials

Europeana & Minecraft by E. Abbate

The use of digital archives with game-based apps like Minecraft can offer you new possibilities for distance learning

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STEM & DCH by Marco Neves

Explore the potential of Europeana related to STEM and ready-made learning material to achieve key competencies

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Our Culture, our Gif(t) by Eva Toth

With this tutorial you will learn how to create memes, gifs, or even board games to work with yours students

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The Engine that Ignited a Revolution

This video shows the revolutionary Newcomen steam engine, and how this invention determined modern technology.

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