Iceland

The World

• Locate Iceland on political, biome and climate maps to identify its position in relation to the rest of Europe and conclude how this impacts upon its climate.

• Develop an understanding of Iceland’s climate and draw conclusions about how and why it is different to mainland Europe.

• Investigate why Iceland has the most volcanoes in Europe, revising children’s understanding of tectonic plates and different types of volcano.

• Use an increasingly wide range of maps to make links e.g. between resources and trade, and draw conclusions about the human and physical geography of Iceland. 

• Compare Iceland and the UK using a wide variety of maps (political, relief, farming, resources, trade, languages, population etc.) to draw their own conclusions about the similarities and differences between the countries.

• Compare the capital cities of Reykjavik and London, using their understanding of the two countries to account for differences in population, transport, housing etc.