FI22 National library OODI and National Museum

Students and teachers meet in front of the Sports Hall and get ready for the trip to Helsinki. French, Romanian, Finnish students  were split into 2 groups and have a guided tour of the Helsinki Central Library Oodi, Finnish teachers explained to the students the tasks, the timing of the visit of Oodi Helsinki Central Library and the National Museum. Oodi Helsinki Central Library is a place to meet friends, create art, read and relax. Students visited Oodi, appreciated Oodi’s services and facilities and admired its striking building with its glass and steel structures and wooden facade, its design a combination of traditional and contemporary flavors. The energy-efficient library is an impressive calling card for Finnish architecture.

The visit to the Helsinki Central Library Oodi represented an opportunity for students and teachers to develop library research skills in order to complete academic work in most subjects throughout their academic careers. More specifically, they will apply these skills along with library support services when researching information for essays, reports and projects. Library research skills are applicable beyond the classroom, as learners benefit from library research for work as well as for leisure. Students who conduct library research will be able to establish knowledge on how to find, decipher, and interpret information.
At the National Museum, students learned about Kalevala, Prehistoric Age, Stone Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Modern times. The guide also emphasizes the importance of sauna (no clothes, no social marks/status) in the Finnish culture/mentality. Students find out interesting things related to the Finnish culture and take 5 pictures which are representative for the Juliet project (women’s condition throughout time). After this thorough research students are supposed to present their photos in front of their project partners (on the 4th day).