SLN geography@Iceland 2003

Were back from Iceland and here are the pages that try and give you a flavour of the fantastic experience it was. Twenty-seven SLN Geography teachers from Berkshire to Sunderland and a few from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.  

Thanks to www.living-planet.co.uk/ for their splendid organisation and a great trip.

Here are the first set of images and video clips combined as a set of photo story enquiries - If you need some A and W now here it is.

All photographs can be used in any teaching and learning context in a school but cannot be used for other purposes without prior permission of Chris Durbin 

SLNgeography@Iceland2003  – Photo-enquiries

	1 Where can they grow bananas near the Arctic Circle?
	2 Why is Iceland on two continents?
	3 How do you explain boiling water coming from the ground?
	4 Why did the house 'The End' survive and the one called ‘Lava’ didn't?
	5 How can sand be black and not polluted?
	6 Why is it called Iceland?
	7 Why has Iceland got so many waterfalls?
	8 Here are some photos for the members of the trip. Have a go at a caption competition  Perspectives on the trip will follow.

If any one else would like to contribute a picture story like these about anywhere in the world then e-mail kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk 

Teaching and learning activities and resources

• A group of us met in the bar and came up with the Paradox of Iceland.
• Adam Nichols, Sunderland KS3 Teaching and learning consultant offers an Iceland Odd One Out
• The group all wrote down all the stories and anecdotes from the trip: Heimaey and the Westmann Islands and Iceland stories. This great experience that got us off to thinking about photo enquiries. The group express their expectations and special memories here
• Corinne Taylor from Boney Hay Primary School devised a series of lessons based on this Grid Club website  The lesson plans are here

Some websites for Iceland for further perspectives on this dramatic country. 

• www.mat.is is an aerial photographer of Icelandic landscapes
• www.jokulsarlon.is is the place where they filmed 'Die another day'.
• The story in pictures of 1973 eruption from Volcano World
• A version of 1973 from the Westmann Islands
• A 25 year retrospective of the eruption
• Not to mention glaciers and spectacular coastal geomorphology at http://islande.hirlimann.net 
• Discover the Living Planet ' Discover the Living Planet and Arctic Experience are part of the Discover the World Group

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk
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