Take a ride in a traveling machine to learn about the form and function of landforms.
Learning Objectives
Students will know that a landform is the shape of the surface of the land.
Students will identify continents as the main areas of land on the earth.
Students will understand that a mountain is a landform with steep sides and a high elevation. Some of the mountain ranges in North America are the Rocky Mounta...
Anticipatory Set: Show the class a globe. Have the children identify: ocean, river, continent, lake, island, and peninsula. The landforms shown on the video are: mountain, hill, valley, river, lake, gulf, island, volcano, harbor, bay peninsula, desert, plateau, canyo...
Our world in called Earth. People, plants and animals live all over the Earth.
Learning Objectives
Students will understand the characteristics of our world, Earth.
Earth is made up of land and water. The large bodies of land are called continents. There are seven continents: North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica. These continents contain areas of ...
Model of the Earth: Make a paper mâchè model of the Earth. Have students paint their Earth with the appropriate oceans and continents, and label their country, state and city.
Interview Project: Have students take home a piece of paper with an interview question on it. Have them ask a member of their family the qu...