Landforms Activities, Map Skills, and Writing Project
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Make your science lessons come alive with these landforms activities that include a landforms building and narrative writing project! Students explore 20 different landforms, build landform islands, practice map skills, and much more!
Combining science, writing, and literacy activities, this highly engaging, hands-on unit includes ready-to-use lesson plans, mini-lessons, 20 full-page landforms posters, and a variety of printable landforms activities and assessments.
Your students will love the landform island-building project and writing creative personal narratives about their islands. The unit is loaded with resources to help your students build, plan, and write, and the detailed teacher's notes will save you time and make planning a breeze!
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Landforms included:
- peninsula
- canyon
- volcano
- island
- plateau
- mountain
- desert
- waterfall
- hill
- valley
- bay
- plain/prairie
- ocean
- lake
- river
- glacier
- isthmus
- delta
- cave
- cliff
Included in the unit:
Detailed 2-week lesson plan with minilesson
Landform Islands building project using salt dough or air-dry clay
Project directions with photos
20 Full-page landforms posters
Creative narrative writing project
-with planning pages, writing mini lesson on using adjectives to make writing more interesting, publishing paper, and map activity
Graphic organizers for defining, comparing, and categorizing landforms
Landform assessments & answer keys
Additional activities ideal for literacy centers:
Map skills & cardinal directions game in 2 skill levels
Landform vocabulary & definitions booklet
Comparing landforms flap book
Geography Jabber game with landforms spinners
Please download the preview to see everything included.
Happy teaching!
Linda Kamp
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