Landforms
TEKS Objective
The student is expected to observe and identify slow changes to Earth's surface caused by weathering, erosion, and deposition from water, wind, and ice.
Essential Understanding
The students know that Earth consists of useful resources and its surface is constantly changing.
Science Background
Face of the Earth: Southern Kings Consolidated School (website) - Learn how physical processes have shaped and affected Earth’s landforms; explore the cycle of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock; and investigate the processes of erosion, weathering, and plate tectonics.
Face of the Earth
Southern Kings Consolidated School, www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings
Landforms: Lincoln Elementary, Dubuque, Iowa (website) - Includes great photographic examples of each type of landform, with lots of information and links to other resources.
Landforms
Lincoln Elementary, Dubuque, Iowa, www.lincoln.dubuque.k12.ia.us
Signature Lesson
Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My! TeachEngineering (website) - Students observe and identify five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature) on rocks, soils and minerals, and also discuss the effects of erosion in real-world scenarios.
Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
TeachEngineering, www.teachengineering.org
- Supporting Lessons
- Extensions
- Assessment Ideas
- Literature Connections
- Related
TEKS - Additional Resources
Supporting Lessons
Exploring Landforms: Teachers.net (website) - This interdisciplinary unit explores several types of landforms. Students choose a famous landform to investigate, and then create/give a presentation.
Exploring Landforms
Teachers.net
Learning the Landforms: The Core Knowledge Foundation (PDF) - Extensive unit on landforms and bodies of water, with a variety of activities to explore Earth’s geographical features. Integrates reading, writing and art.
Learning the Landforms
The Core Knowledge Foundation, www.coreknowledge.org
Elaboration Lessons and Extensions
Landform Adventure: Open Educational Resources (website) - This lesson teaches students about the types of landforms and bodies of water, along with appropriate geographic vocabulary.
Landform Adventure
by Beth Edmonds, Open Educational Resources, www.oercommons.org
Assessment Ideas
Landforms: TeacherLINK (website) - In this connection with social studies, students investigate and build a model of a specific geographical landform along the Mormon Pioneer Trail.
Literature Connections
Introducing Landforms. Kalman, Bobbie (ISBN-10: 0778732134)
What is a Landform? Rissman, Rebecca (ISBN-10: 1432932586)
America’s National Parks: The Spectacular Forces That Shaped Our Treasured Lands. Michels, Dia and Levy, Nathan (ISBN: 0 7894 8016 6)
In Search of The Grand Canyon: Down The Colorado River with John Wesley Powell. Fraser, Mary Ann (ISBN: 0-805-05543-6)
Mountains. Collier, Michael (ISBN: 9781931414180)
Valleys. Webster, Christine (ISBN: 0-736-83716-7)
Additional Resources
Landforms by Hand: Teachers.net (website) - Teach landforms in this simple activity using your hand.
Landforms by Hand
Teachers.net
Landforms and Bodies of Water: EnchantedLearning.com (website) - Glossary with illustrations of 30 different landforms.
TEKS Navigation
Grade 4
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