Finland is arguably the world's winter wonderland. With the one of the highest air qualities in the world, the sparsely populated, forested nation has a reputation for its quiet people. As an entertaining video explores, it also has the highest per capita rate of heavy metal bands and invented the wife-carrying contest.

Concepts

european geography, world geography, physical geography, human geography

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Additional Tags

social studies

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Instructional Ideas

• Offer the video with others in the series to structure a conversation on the culture of Nordic countries 

Classroom Considerations

• Video serves as the 60th in the Countries A-Z playlist
• Picture of man receiving medical help after a deadly sauna competition may be disturbing for some viewers 

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Narrator is engaging and funny
• Maps and graphics demonstrate complex concepts

Cons

• An ad interrupts the video

Common Core

RH.6-8.1 RH.6-8.2 RH.6-8.10 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.10