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This month your stduents are learning about landforms in Social Studies. They will be using a variety of resources including textbooks, websites, and magazines to learn the 13 different landforms. Once we have studied the landforms, students will be given a project to build their own landform using any resources they have at home. Below you will find some links with examples of what students in another class created. You will also find the AKS we are studying listed, and some websites to help you familiarize yourself with these landforms. We look forward to having a creative, fun journey through landforms!
Academic Knowledge and Skills (AKS)
Locate key geographical regions and their features in the United States.
1c - describe the landforms and identify them on a map; locate - mountain, peninsula, piedmont, plain, island, forest, desert, grassland, plateau
1d - describe types of bodies of water and identify them on a map; locate - rivers, lakes, oceans, wetlands, bays, delta
1e - locate and describe the physical features of the three geographical regions of Georgia (mountains, coastal plain, and piedmont)
Edible Landforms
Look at what a middle school class did for their landform projects. Ours do not have to be edible. These are just examples!
Interactive Landforms by Harcourt
Look at this site to see landforms around the world.
Landforms from Wikipedia
Here is a higher level definition of landforms that you can use to help your student.
PREVIEW
Next we will be covering habitats in Science. Here is a preview webquest to get your student thinking about habitats!