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1. Going to Greenland Going to Greenland
Going to Greenland Science Children will play a game in which they identify different-colored objects to take on an imaginary trip. What You Need Creative imaginations What to Do 1. Tell children they are going to go on an imaginary trip to Greenland, but first they are going to have to pack. Tell children that the su...

2. What's the Wonder? What's the Wonder?
...pedias, informational books, magazines, and pamphlets Poster board for a map (optional) What to Do 1. Have students meet in small groups to choose a country they would like to know more about. 2. Ask each group to make a list of "I wonder questions" about the country. For example, if the subject is Greenland, students might write: I wonder...What is the weather like in Greenland? Or: I wonder...How do people dress in Greenland? 3. Within each team, have students write their "I wonder questions" on index cards, with their names, and shuffle the cards. Then have each student draw at least one card (it sho...

3. McGraw-Hill Mathematics Grade 6, Chapter 9: Cold Facts from Greenland
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill McGraw-Hill Mathematics Return to McGraw-Hill Mathematics Web-Linked Lesson Plans Grade 6 book McGraw-Hill Math - Grade 6 Chapter 9: Integers and Rational Numbers Theme: Strange Facts Cold Facts from Greenland Introduce Teach Close/Assess Encourage students to check whether their solutions make sense and to explain their reasoning. For example, for problem 2, students might explain that the difference between a positive number and a negative number must be greater than the positive number. Check students'...

4. Geography Concepts - Scale and Resolution - AgroWiki
...aphic coordinates ? lat/long (use globe, orange and clock) + Projected coordinates, UTM ? Northing and Eastings Creative Commons Resources + Worksheet to practice reading and determining coordinates Finding coordinates on USGS map Finding Content + Converting between DD and DMS Projection + Look at Greenland on map + Ask which is larger GNL or USA + Look at Greenland on a globe and compare to USA + Discuss why and what projections are Powered by MediaWiki Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Coordinate worksheet + Look at topo maps and find components of maps discussed earlier + Look at and identif...

5. Getting into Hot Water
learning/teacher/bg_teacher.gif) Back to Main Daily Lesson Related Article Plan An Icy Riddle as Lesson Plan Big as Greenland Archive By ANDREW C. News Snapshot REVKIN Issues in Depth On This Day in (Go to Article.) History Crossword Puzzle Campus Weblines Get Our Lessons By E-mailPrinter-friendly Version Education News Newspaper in Education (NIE) Teacher Resources Wednesday, June 9, 2004 Classroom Subscriptions Getting i...

6. Teacher's Guide 4...Glaciers: Movers & Shapers...Lesson 1 Activity: Glacial Change
...al hazards, b) how scientists study glaciers, c) the interrelationship between glaciers, global climate change, and possible sea level rise, d) the effects on the local environment. 2. Assign students in groups to research methods that scientists use to study glacial Illustration: change including: Greenland a) NASA image data from earth-orbiting located on Earth satellites [Landsat multispectral scanner (view from (MSS) and thematic mapper (T M)] space). b) Smithsonian Institute s information on the discovery of Ice Man preserved in a glacier c) Vostok ice core studies and Greenland Ice Core Project d)...

7. TEA: Activity-leppik- -- Gettingtothecoreofclimatechange_main
..., Hanover St. Elementary School, Lebanon, New Hampshire Karina Leppik, Choate-Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut Rolf Tremblay, Goodman Middle School, Gig Harbor, Washington Overview Students investigate climate changes going back thousands of years by graphing and analyzing ice core data from Greenland and Antarctica. They use information about natural and human-caused changes in the atmosphere to formulate predictions about the Earth's climate. Students will: create a graph. explain the pattern of data on a graph. make predictions that go beyond the data. analyze and discuss the relationships amo...

8. Vikings - Secondary
...find the ruins at L'anse aux Meadows. 2. Speculative History What if the Vikings had succeeded in settling the Americas instead of the European countries that followed them? - Once students have learned something about the way the Norse settled parts of Britain, France, all of Iceland, and parts of Greenland, they may speculate on the kinds of relations they would have established with the Native people of North America, the pattern that their exploration would have taken, and the kind of law, industry, and commerce they would have created. - Have groups of students create their own history of "Norse Am...

9. Trippin' to the Poles and the Blue Nose Ritual
...here to join your research team." Explanation (Discussing) Discuss: Why would the government, the NSF, want to do this? What sorts of adventures would the students have? Ask for a show of hands- how many students would like to go to Antarctica? How many would like to go to the North Pole? How about Greenland? How many would like to ride on an icebreaker through the Arctic Ocean? How many would like to see penguins in the wild? Elaboration (Polar Applications) Activity: Fill out the student master below. A brief review, or an introductory lesson, a how-to, should be led by the teacher on Latitude and Lon...

10. Vikings - Intermediate
...d the usual stereotypes of the Norse that we often see. - Divide the class into groups to do more research on the Norse. Groups may study Viking ships ands their construction, their voyages and conquests, their art, their complex mythology, and life in their communities in Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland. - Groups can share their research in presentations, displays, and sessions with other groups. - Students might also collect examples of how Vikings are portrayed in advertising, comic strips, etc... 2. The Vikings and the "Skraelings" Take some time to look "behind" the Minute for a critical assess...