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WorldNews Network

Scandinavia News: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
Scandinavia News gathers the top news stories for and about Scandinavia from a variety of well-renowned sources.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: Mt. Pinatubo and the Atmosphere

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores the impact of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere. Students will analyze three types of visual information: a graph of aerosol optical depth v. global temperature, a global map with temperature anomalies, and...
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Library of Congress

Loc: America's Story: North Dakota

For Students 3rd - 8th
What does "Dakota mean" in French? What tribe did Sacajawea belong to? The Library of Congress's America's Story has answers and more about the state of North Dakota.
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Sacred Text Archive

The Norse Discovery of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Collections of bits and pieces of lore and fact relating to the exploration of Nova Scotia and North America. Author promises "Bone-chilling stories," of Vikings!
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Other

Evidence! Europe Reflected in Archives

For Students 9th - 10th
Digitized manifestations of European culture in archival documents whith presentations made by city archives and other local archives in 7 cities of culture for the year 2000.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Nato: 19 Member Countries

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a list of all of the NATO countries along with links to their government sites. Users can find a vast amount of information about each of the member countries. A great resource for researching and learning about NATO or...
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Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Countries and Continents

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This resource provides links to ideas and for teaching about the Arctic Circle and about the Antarctic. There are also links to additional sites.
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Curated OER

Vinland, From Accounts Contained in Old Northern Maps, Eleventh Century

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod showing the area of early Norse exploration in America. "In 986 A.D. a Norseman named Herjulfson, who was voyaging from Iceland to Greenland, was driven by a gale far out of his reckoning to the W....
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland, and Greenland, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1916 of the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland (Newfoundland and Labrador were not part of the Canadian Confederation until 1949), Greenland, and Iceland. This map uses color-contouring to show general land elevations from sea...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Norse America, 861 1285

For Students 9th - 10th
A facsimile of a map from the works of Carl Christian Rafn (1837) showing Iceland, Greenland, and the eastern portion of North America. The map shows the probable areas of pre-Columbian migration and exploration of the Norse from Iceland...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Denmark With Schleswig Holstein, 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Denmark in 1914 showing Jutland, Zealand, Funen, Laaland (Lolland) Vendsyssel-Thy, Falster and Bornholm, and includes Schleswig-Holstein. This map shows major cities, rivers and coastal features, and ncludes inserts maps of...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Physical Europe, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A physical map of Europe from 1916 showing color-coded elevations and water depths for the area extending from Iceland to the Ural Mountains in Russia Proper, and the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean Sea. Land elevation colors range...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Outline Map of Europe, 5,000 Bce

For Students 9th - 10th
An outline map of Europe at a time when sea levels were lower than present, with Iceland, the British Isles and Scandinavian Peninsula a part of the mainland, and the Mediterranean, not connected to the Atlantic Ocean, split into two...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Physical Map of Europe, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A physical map of Europe from 1916 showing color-coded elevations and water depths for the area extending from Iceland to the natural boundary between Europe and Asia (Ural Mountains to the Caspian Sea), and the Arctic Circle to the...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Rhode Island, 1898

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1898 of Rhode Island, "One of the thirteen original States and smallest in the Union; supposed temporary settlement of Icelanders as early as 1000. Settled by Roger Williams at Providence 1636. Island of Aquidneck (Rhode...
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Comparative Areas of the United States and Other Countries, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1872 of the United States used to illustrate the comparative area sizes of the states to other countries in the world. The map shows state and territory boundaries at the time (Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming,...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Canada: L'anse Aux Meadows National Historic Site

For Students 9th - 10th
At the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of the island of Newfoundland, the remains of an 11th-century Viking settlement are evidence of the first European presence in North America. The excavated remains of wood-framed peat-turf...
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Other

Europe for Visitors: Country List

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource is a commercial travel resource that features links to information about the countries of Western Europe. Photographs are included throughout.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:nordic Sagas: Island Life

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore how life invades, colonizes and changes over time. Model a shallow underwater volcano to see what type of island forms, investigate seed dispersal methods and describe how wing size and shape determine which birds fly where.

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