Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Making a Landform Model
In the NGSS, one of the performance expectations is for the children to develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. In the science practices, the children also must develop and use models....
Quia
Quia: Geography World: Landform Concentration
Play this fun game of Geography Concentration to practice your geography vocabulary and increase learning. After each game the cards change and new words and definitions are introduced. Users must enable JavaScript.
Other
Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface Lesson 2: Landform Detectives
Using relief maps, students will learn that landforms can be different from one place to another. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Modeling Earth's Land Biosphere
Read this article to learn how scientists are using instruments to try and monitor our land biosphere. Scientists have learned two different types of models to help track data from our land.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Environmental Science: Geology, Soil and Land Management
Students explore how Earth processes shape the land, and how important managing the land can be in response to these natural activities.
Johns Hopkins University
John Hopkins University: Color Landform Atlas of the u.s.
This site from John Hopkins University provides detailed maps of and physical information on each of the 50 states. Maps range from relief maps to satellite images, to historical maps.
Quia
Quia: Geography World: Earth's Physical Features Games
This site contains matching, concentration, flash cards, and word search games from landform vocabulary. Excellent games which contain more than one version of each game to reinforce all vocabulary taught.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Eolian Processes and Landforms
A detailed outline containing a large amount of material on wind erosion, describing wind transport mechanisms, and wind landform formation.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Mapping Landforms
Students will study landform maps of states and then create a project of their own.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Formatting Titles: Rules for Formatting Titles [Pdf]
A learning exercise in which students decide which formatting rules apply to each sentence containing a title.
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Formatting Titles: The Box Office [Pdf]
Practice formatting titles correctly by rewriting the titles of the movie posters on this worksheet.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
Other
Maps & Globes: Other Land Forms
A very simple overview of various land forms and their characteristics: peninsula, cape, isthmus, valley, canyon, cliff, and swamp.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Observing Different Landforms
Lesson plan with subsequent pages to use with the lesson. Images with landform word match up and additional work on earth modeling.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Dance Across the United States of America [Pdf]
These activities will allow students to become explorers and travel across the United States to encounter a variety of land forms. Students will create a story about their trek and then create choreography to match the sequence generated...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Student Created Landform Maps With Glacial Emphasis
An activity where students work together to make topographic maps of a local park. The map must include a key and the grid locations of landforms in the park.
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Shaping the Land
This site contains maps and other information about the Ohio's topography. Great details about how glaciers played a key role in the formation of Ohio's land, the natural resources left behind, and the natural regions and their differences.
Northern Arizona University
Land Use History of North America: Prehistoric Farming on the Colorado Plateau
This is an overview of the Anasazi agricultural developments -- despite unfavorable environmental conditions -- which allowed for the formation of settlements and food sharing.
Other
Hopewell Rocks 360 Degrees Panorama
Take a panoramic tour of the famous Hopewell Rocks. Explore the ocean floor and the rock formations. Be careful! When the tides come in the water rises to a height of a four story building.
Other
Ihm School: Landforms
Student created reports on landforms. Each landform has a brief description and an example. Pictures accompany the reports. Learn more about the landforms that shape our world.
University of Kentucky
Univ. Of Kentucky: Campus Guide: Morrill Act of 1862 and Land Grant Colleges
This page gives a very brief description of the Morrill Act of 1862 and the formation of land-grant colleges. Also lists some land-grant colleges.
Open Library of the Internet Archive
Open Library: Mountain Land
This ebook version of Robert William Chambers's Mountain-Land has been made available in multiple formats by the Open Library. Editions of the full novel, organized by year of publication, may be accessed here.
NOAA
Noaa: Estuaries 101 Curriculum: Observing Estuaries:
Students investigate landforms and features associated with estuaries by taking a journey down a river to an estuary system where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Weeks Bay. They will use Google Maps and other resources to...
Fourmilab Switzerland
John Walker: Named Lunar Formations
This atlas of the Lunar surface features lists all named features. Click on a name and see an image of that item, or at least an image of the Moon centered on that item.