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Learner Expectation
Content Standard: 3.0 Geography enables the students to see, understand and
appreciate the web of relationships between people, places, and environments. Students will use the knowledge, skills, and understanding of concepts within the six essential elements of geography: world in spatial terms, places and regions, physical systems, human systems, environment and society, and the uses of geography.
Learning Expectations: 3.01 Understand how to use maps, globes, and other
geographic representations, tools, and technologies to acquire, process and report information from a spatial perspective.
3.03 Demonstrate how to identify and locate major physical and political features on globes and maps.
IN THIS ACTIVITY YOU WILL:
Learn about the different types of landforms.
Create illustrations of landforms.Write a paragraph describing a
landform of your choice.
LANDFORMS
Landforms are the kinds of land a place has.
Landforms include mountains, hills, valleys, plateaus, deserts, plains, islands, and peninsulas.
VALLEYS
Valleys are lowlands that lie between mountain ranges or hills.
They are often good places for communities because water runs down from the mountains and they have rich soil to grow crops.
PLAINS
Plains are an area of flat land.Plains are flat sometimes grassy lands
that stretch for miles and can be good habitats for animals like zebras, lions, and elephants, giraffes.
PENINSULAS
A peninsula is a piece of land that has water on ONLY THREE sides and is attached to another piece of land.
A good example of a peninsula is FLORIDA.
REVIEW OF LANDFORMS
MOUNTAINS: High steep, rocky land
HILLS: Shorter and rounder than mountains
VALLEYS: Low land in between mountains
PLATEAUS: Steep, sloped land with a flat top
DESERTS: Dry, sandy land
ISLANDS: Land surrounded by water
PLAINS: Flat, grassy land that stretches for miles
PENINSULA: Land with water on 3 sides
CREATIVE ACTIVITY – choose one
Students create and illustrate a picture dictionary using 6 landforms shown in this presentation.
Or students may choose to create a cube illustrating a different landform on each side of the cube.
Writing Activity
Students will choose their favorite landform to write a Four Square assignment about and present it to the class.