Students created a PowerPoint to share the information they learned about a Middle Eastern country of their choice. This is not teacher edited; additional instruction will be retaught for standard English conventions and age appropriate bibliography.

1. Iran
By Aya – 4D

2. Introduction
Iran is a big country it is surrounded by eight
countries.
The capital city of Iran is Tehran. The national
language spoken is Persian and the continent
it’s on is Asia.

3. Culture
The following holidays that Iran celebrates are,
Revolution day, Republic Day, Ashura for ten days they
cannot play music or sing, and Ramadan is a holy month
for Muslims they fast the hole month and they pray day
and night to god. The Iranians eat a lot of healthy diet
food and lots of fresh vegetables and fruit. They also eat
lamb and beef they forbid eating pork and ham.

4. Economy
One thing that Iran is good at selling is
the oil. They make a lot of money
selling it. The money is called the Rial.
Iran has exported the spice saffron for
a long time. Iran produces one of the
best dates in the world. Many people
from Iran make traditional carpets it is
important export.

5. Climate
Iran contrasts climates. In the
summer time it’s very hot,
dry, and sunny in the
mountains in the winter it is it
gets freezing cold. In Iran
faces natural floods, dust
storms, earthquakes. The
weather In Iran is mostly
either semiarid or arid.

6. Geography
The bodies of water are the Caspian Sea in the north of
the country and the Arabian Sea south of the country.
There are desserts in the middle of the country and east
mountains in the north and west north green lowland
with rich soil. Iran’s only volcano, Mount Damavand it is
the highest mountain in the Western Asia and in the north
and west there is a high plain it is covered mostly with
brown sand and gravel or by a crust of salt.

7. History
Earliest people in Iran were
hunters, farmers, and traders.
Iraq invaded Iran in 1980 and
that was when the Iran Iraq
war began, it ended in 1988.
During the war more than a
million people were killed or
injured.

8. Facts
Iran is famous for it’s Persian carpets.
Iran has rich oil fields in the
southwest.

9. Sources
Iran by Elma Schemenawer
Exploring Countries Iran by Walter Simmons
Countries Around the world Iran Richard Spilsbury
Countries of the World Leon Gray
Country Reports
Britannica
Iran the Land of Peacock Throne William Spencer
Images:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iran_map.png