Introduction to Iceland Curriculum Links

Iceland offers extensive study opportunities and invaluable hands-on experience in an array of subject areas.

Geography
Iceland provides your students with invaluable hands-on experience and excellent case studies for both coursework and exam preparation. There are a host of possible geography and geology topics that can be explored when visiting Iceland:

  • Tectonic processes, landforms & hazards
  • Weather processes & hazards
  • Climate change
  • Ecosystems
  • Coastal processes, landforms & management
  • Water & river processes, landforms & management
  • Glacial processes, landforms & management
  • Geological processes & landforms
  • Urban change & growth
  • Population
  • Economic change
  • Food resources
  • Water resources
  • Energy resources

See Iceland Geography Topics

Science
Iceland is an awe-inspiring country that has the power to bring text books to life and it attracts a wealth of scientists from around the globe. Iceland provides ample opportunity for study of the following topics:

  • Organisms & environment
  • Evolution, adaptation & natural selection
  • Ecosystems & relationships in ecosystems
  • Biodiversity & sampling techniques
  • Conservation & maintaining biodiversity
  • Photosynthesis
  • Classification
  • Biotechnology
  • Energy for biological processes
  • Water resources
  • Rock cycle
  • Climate change & atmospheric science
  • pH scale
  • Solar system
  • Seasons on Earth
  • Energy

See Iceland Science Topics