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Iceland Teacher Resources
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Investigate ethical issues surrounding the Decode project in Iceland. Middle and high schoolers take the positions of the Icelandic government, scientific researchers, and citizens and defend or refute the Decode project in a Reykjavik town hall meeting.
Fourth graders discover the country of Iceland. They investigate Iceland's history, culture, and geography using hands-on materials. They engage in a multi-day instructional activity. Each day focuses on a different aspect of Iceland. A most-impressive instructional activity which has everything you need to successfully-implement it.
Young scholars, after demonstrating their ability to count change, recognize the correct amount of kronur for their imaginary purchase. They identify the differences between U.S. money and Icelandic kronur. Imaginary stores are set up for the students to be assigned roles to sell products and count various amounts of money.
In this editing a paragraph worksheet, students read and edit a short paragraph on "Volcanic Iceland" and find the ten errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar. Students correct the errors.
In this word search worksheet, student search for words related to Iceland. The terms include important geographical features, wildlife and organizations.
If your class is studying volcanoes, this could be a useful source of information. In three pages of text and diagrams, this resource discusses the six kinds of volcanic eruptions and three kinds of volcano cones. The fourth page of this worksheet has three short answer questions that synthesis the information covered in the above text. Because this is a very information rich resource, it might make a useful online source for student conducted research.
Students explore the similarities and differences between countries around the world and work to make connections to their own living, particularly Iceland. They identify each of the six countries on a globe or map. Explanations are given for all the different kinds of governments in each country.
Students use the Internet to gather information about Iceland. They use engaging educational websites provided by the teacher (available on the teacher's portaportal website) in order to integrate technology into their "Countries Around the World" unit.
Students read articles about Iceland's Genetic History. In this genetics instructional activity, students discuss questions related to the article. They select a project they want to work on from a given list.
Fifth graders become familiar with volcanic eruption in Iceland and create a newspaper to report the information. In this newspaper research lesson, 5th graders work in heterogeneous groups to design parts of the newspaper.