Geography: Norway

Back in January, we visited Norway in our geography studies. Here's a look at what we did:

Week 1

Monday: Introduction to Norway
Scandinavia Song
Locate Norway on world map, globe, and atlases
Place flag sticker in passport and stamp with date

Tuesday: Norway Facts
Capitals, large cities, land and water borders
YouTube video on Oslo (embedding was disabled)
Map page (we used a map outline from Enchanted Learning)


I gave Isaac these directions for his map work:
1. Find and label Norway’s capital city Oslo.
2. Find and label Hammerfest, the northernmost city in Europe.
3. Label the following seas: North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea
4. Label the Skagerrak Strait.
5. Label the Arctic Circle and draw a line to show where it starts.
6. Find and label Norway’s highest mountain Galdhøpiggen.
7. Lightly color the seas light blue and Norway yellow.
8. Label Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Lightly color each country a
different color.

Geography from A to Z: fjords, forests, mountains, glaciers, islands, highlands, valleys, caves
Report on fjords


Wednesday: Norway Facts
Discuss government, royalty, currency, climate
Wedding video of King Harald of Norway:

Flag page (from ColoringCastle.com)

Website on National Costumes. Here's another link on national costumes.

Thursday: Science
Discuss Northern Lights
Here's a really cool power point story on Auroras!
Here, you can get an aurora forecast! They can be seen sometimes even in the continental US, but the best views of course are far north!
View videos and photos of Northern Lights



Northern Lights chalk picture on black paper


Friday: Science
Discuss “Land of the Midnight Sun”
Discuss maelstroms (Saltstraumen


Week 2

Monday: Animals in Norway
Make a booklet on Norwegian animals: gray wolf, moose, brown bear, European lynx, reindeer, polar bear

Draw-Write-Now page on Moose


Tuesday: Architecture and History
Stave Churches
Viking Ships
Religion

Wednesday: Norwegian Inventions and People
Skiing (Invented in Norway and Sweden)

Roald Amundsen, polar explorer

Thursday: Concluding Activities
Notebook Page (form made by Jolanthe at Homeschool Creations)

Norwegian language


Friday: Concluding Activities
Read Around the World in 80 Tales, p. 68 "Three Billy Goats Gruff"
Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Listen to "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt)

Norwegian food--we baked fish
YouTube clips on Norway:
This one was not able to be embedded, but it's called Visit Norway in 7 Min.



Here's one more from visitnorway.com

We also visited Time for Kids to learn more about Norway.

I'm linking this post to "History and Geography" at All Things Beautiful.