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Common Sense Media

Common Sense Media: Wondering About Landforms in Asia

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Following a guided observation through Google Earth of a landform in Asia, students will be able to form questions that reflect what they have observed and what they want to know about that landform.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Landforms Acrostic Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will write acrostic poems using scientific information about various landforms. These poems will reinforce concepts learned in science.
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Math Science Nucleus

Math/science Nucleus: Observing Different Landforms

For Teachers K - 1st
Lesson plan with subsequent pages to use with the lesson. Images with landform word match up and additional work on earth modeling.
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Math Science Nucleus

Math Science Nucleus: Maps as Tools

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
A series of lessons in which young scholars learn about landforms. Includes interpreting landforms, creating landforms, and information on Angel Island.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Loaves of Landforms

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This is a comprehensive lesson plan to teach primary students about landforms. A foundation in geography begins with an understanding of the terms geographers use to describe the features of Earth. Help students grow their vocabulary and...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: State Map Poster

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a project where students pick a state, study its landforms and data about its geology, and produce a poster that outlines how the state's geography evolved over time. An example of such a poster is provided on a downloadable...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Shapes the Land?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
In this lesson plan, the teacher will read a book about different landforms. The children will learn about the features of the landforms and how they were shaped by natural forces. Then text features will be discussed. The children will...
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Unique Landforms

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The title of this lesson is somewhat misleading and may be a mismatch, as well as the grade levels noted. It is really about transportation. Students conduct extensive research, both online and by phone, and compare various methods of...
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Other

Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 2: Landform Detectives

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Using relief maps, students will learn that landforms can be different from one place to another. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Other

Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 1: Our Land

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This hands-on lesson focuses on the land and its many different types of landforms and bodies of water. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Other

Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 3: Grand Canyon Explorers

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students will learn that landforms can change over time in this lesson. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Student Created Landform Maps With Glacial Emphasis

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
An activity where students work together to make topographic maps of a local park. The map must include a key and the grid locations of landforms in the park.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sea to Sky

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson plan, students learn about major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, valleys, canyons and plateaus) and how they occur on the Earth's surface. They learn about the civil and geotechnical engineering applications of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Earth's Changing Surface

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this unit, students will identify the various landforms found on the earth's surface. Also, students will describe how these landforms are created and changed by the natural forces within the earth and on its surface, as well as...
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National Association of Geoscience Teachers

Quaternary Glacio Fluvial History of the Upper Midwest Using Anaglyph Stereo Maps

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine the anaglyph stereo map and use textures to generate a surficial geology map of the Upper Midwest. They can then interpret the textures in terms of landforms, geomorphic features, and earth-surface processes, as well as...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Geologic Photo Field Trips for Introductory Physical Geology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students participate in a series of virtual geology field trips by observing and describing rock outcrops, geologic structures, and landforms in field based photographs.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Forces That Change the Land

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students will use websites and other resources to find information about the following landforms: mountains, canyons, and valleys.
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Crayola

Crayola: Airplane View

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Show off your knowledge of geography. Draw your state, its neighbors and indicate notable landforms as if you were viewing them from the window of an airplane.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weathering Landforms

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan will demonstrate the mechanical weathering process known as frost wedging and the biological weathering process caused by plants. The materials required include plaster of Paris, balloons, seeds, paper plates and a...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Rock Identification and Usage

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, students explore rocks using their five senses. They sort them into groups, learn about landforms, and learn how rocks are used by humans. Their discoveries are recorded in their science notebooks.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Geologic History of Southeast Minnesota

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is an inquiry-based, earth science field investigation of the geology of southeast Minnesota. Young scholars will make observations of rock outcrops and landforms in the region using maps, pictures, and field sampling, then...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricane Matthew Causes Weathering and Erosion

For Students 3rd - 5th
View videos and photos from the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and see how the earth's landforms changed as a result of the heavy winds and rain. Weathering and erosion made a new landform and dramatically changed the coastline....
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Landforms in a Tub

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
For this activity, students create models in a tub or sandbox that simulate erosion caused by weathering.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Shaping the Tallest Peak on Earth

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson builds upon a National Geographic film covering George Mallory's effort to climb Mount Everest in 1924. It looks at the physical features of mountains, and the landform features of Mount Everest that present challenges to...

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