School

Two Stone Age women holding a glowing stone between them.

Norrbotten Museum is a learning resource for schools in Norrbotten. We want to arouse children and young people's interest in the past, present and future through our educational activities. In connection with our exhibitions, we offer free school programs.

Teacher's manuals

We have developed some teacher guides that teachers and students can use in the classroom. You can download and use the materials for free.

Iron Age

(500 BC – 1050 AD)

This material is primarily intended as a complement to other school material about the Iron Age. The focus is on the early Iron Age in Norrbotten, and how new knowledge about iron affected the lives of people at that time. Everything is based on new finds that show that iron production existed in Norrbotten much earlier than previously thought.

Materials to download

PDF files in A4 format:

Teacher's guide about the Iron Age

The story of Varja

Student magazine about the Iron Age

Older Stone Age - Hunter Stone Age

(13 BC – 000 BC)

In Sweden, the Old Stone Age, or Hunter Stone Age, begins when the last ice age ends. In areas not covered by the ice sheet, the period is called the Mesolithic, or Middle Stone Age.

This guide is primarily intended as a complement to other school material about the Stone Age. The material focuses on the Hunter Stone Age in Norrbotten, how the melting of the ice sheet caused people to seek out new areas, and how their lives may have been affected by living so close to the melting ice. It is all based on findings that show that the ice in Norrbotten melted 500 years earlier than we previously thought.

Materials to download

PDF files in A4 format:

Teacher's guide

Facts and research

The story of the secret of the Ice Sheet

Student magazine

Annika Svonni Josbrant

Museum educator

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