Landforms

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Landforms

• Write On
• Grade 3

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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.

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IN THIS ACTIVITY YOU WILL

• Learn about the different types of landforms.
• Create landforms with modeling clay.
• Write a Four Square describing a landform of
  their choice.

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LANDFORMS

• Landforms are the kinds of land a place has.
• Landforms include mountains, valleys, plateaus,
  deserts,plains, islands, and peninsulas.

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MOUNTAINS

• Mountains can be tall and sharply pointed like
  the Rocky Mountains.
• Mountains can be lower and more rounded like the
  Appalachian Mountains.

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VALLEYS

• Valleys are lowlands that lie between mountain
  ranges.
• They are often good places for communities
  because water runs down from the mountains and
  they have rich soil to grow crops.

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PLATEAUS

• Plateaus are landforms that have STEEP SIDES and
  a FLAT top.
• They may stretch for miles in every direction.

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DESERTS

• A desert is dry land with few plants and little
  water.

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ISLANDS

• An island is a piece of land that has water on
  all sides.

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PLAINS

• The area of flat land along a sea or ocean is a
  coastal plain.
• Plains are flat sometimes grassy lands that
  stretch for miles and can be good habitats for
  animals like zebras, lions, and elephants,
  giraffes.

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PENINSULAS

• A peninsula is a piece of land that has water on
  ONLY THREE sides and attached to another piece of
  land.
• A good example of a peninsula is FLORIDA.

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REVIEW OF LANDFORMS

• MOUNTAINS High steep,rocky land
• VALLEYS Low land in between mountains
• PLATEAUSSteep, sloped land with a flat top

• DESERTS Dry, sandy land
• PLAINS Flat, grassy land that stretches for
  miles
• ISLANDS Land surrounded by water
• PENINSULASLand with water on 3 sides

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Sources

• Jefferson County Website
• Harcourt Horizons People and Communities volume
  1
• Florida Picture http//fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/
  clipart/colorpic/48.htm

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CREATIVE ACTIVITY

• Give a lump of modeling clay.
• Allow students to mold and create each type of
  landform discussed. If needed go back through
  Power Point.

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Writing Activity

• Students will choose their favorite landform to
  write a Four Square assignment and present it to
  the class.