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Teaching Harry Potter In School<br />
By: Khrista Cendana<br />
www.NewHeightsEducation.org<br />
Even if you aren’t a Harry Potter fan, there are websites that will help you find a way to use Harry Potter in<br />
your teaching. Harry Potter has a lot of moral lessons for a student to learn: love, friendship, loyalty, etc.<br />
There’s a total of seven books within the series so a teacher shouldn’t have a problem finding something to<br />
teach the students. Take a vote on what you want to discuss within the Harry Potter series or find someone<br />
who knows Harry Potter and could help you. Harry Potter is fun and interesting to read; make it enjoyable for<br />
you and your students so that it lasts more than just a day.<br />
Helpful Websites:<br />
Explore the Story - Pottermore<br />
Gloucester Cathedral<br />
Why do you want to teach Harry Potter in your classroom? Is it because the series is popular among kids and<br />
adults? Are you a fan of Harry Potter and want to teach it in more depth? Whatever the reason may be, you’ll<br />
want to give it some thought before deciding what sort of lesson you want to teach the students.<br />
Here are helpful ideas that could get you started on teaching Harry Potter in your classroom:<br />
1. Get an idea on what the Harry Potter books are mostly about.<br />
2. Go to websites like Pottermore that might have in-depth content related to the stories.<br />
3. Research the books - who are the popular characters, who is Harry Potter...etc.<br />
4. Ask fans of the books what they would do if they were teaching Harry Potter to students.<br />
Harry Potter Crafts and Activities<br />
National Education Association - Teaching Harry Potter<br />
The Leaky Cauldron<br />
Once you get the basis of the Harry Potter Wizarding World, decide what kind of lesson you want to teach<br />
your students. For example, do you want your students to write a paper on the theme or moral of the story<br />
of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince? When I was a student in my university, I was browsing for textbooks<br />
in the school bookstore when something caught my eye. Right there lying on the shelf was the book<br />
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I was surprised at first that why the bookstore would have this, but I<br />
then realized that a teacher could indeed choose to teach students about Harry Potter to make a class more<br />
interesting.<br />
Here are some activities that might be enjoyable:<br />
1) Have a class discussion on the aspect of the books that you want the students to learn.<br />
2) Use things like Wizarding Money or even Muggle Money for examples when teaching math to younger<br />
students.<br />
3) If you’re teaching history, why not visit some of the locations online? For instances, go to Gloucester<br />
Cathedral for a virtual tour.<br />
There are so many ideas for interesting subjects to teach within the classroom using Harry Potter. Here are<br />
some helpful websites where you can get ideas for teaching Harry Potter within the classroom:<br />
1. Scholastic<br />
2. National Education Association<br />
3. The Leaky Cauldron<br />
56 <strong>NHEG</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> | <strong>January</strong> - <strong>February</strong> 2019<br />
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