landforms

mbeli · **landforms** 09-11-2006, 06:38 PM

I just started teaching 3rd grade this year and we are covering landforms Does anybody have any projects or activities

hngsmom · **landforms projects** 09-11-2006, 07:23 PM

If you check out Mrs. Madden's website, on her Teacher Resources page, she has a few activities for landforms. I have also seen activities for making edible landforms, using things like Hershey's Kisses for mountains, green coconut for plains, and blue icing for bodies of water. I did a Google search for edible landforms and came up with a few ideas.

Apples4me · 09-13-2006, 04:18 PM

Can you give me more info on the edible landforms? I did a search and was unable to find what you were talking about. Sounds like a cool idea.

ashton · **Landforms** 11-09-2006, 08:14 PM

Although I am not a teacher, I am an elementary education major and am in the classroom 4 days a week. One thing I noticed a teacher did was to cut out various shapes(such as clouds, flowers, batons, fish) and having the students label the maps as well as include four types of landforms. The kids seemed to love it and it let them express their creativity.

New York · **3 landforms** 12-04-2006, 07:18 PM

i need three landforms. for the northeaststates

northeaststat · **thee landfors** 12-04-2006, 07:21 PM

ineed three landforms for the northeast states

Love3rdGrade · **dictionaries** 12-07-2006, 07:37 PM

I had the kids complete a Landform Dictionary. It had 13 pages with lots of space at the top for a picture and the bottom was the word with lines following it for the kids to write in the definition from their book. Some of the landforms we study are plain, coast, plateau, mountain, volcano, ocean, bay, stream, river, lake, peninsula, and valley. I used a rubric that had each page worth 5 points. 1-neatness (3rd grade work, no scribbling), 2-correct definition, and 2-correct picture. I gave them one point if they only had a partially correct definition or picture. Look out for the pictures of the peninsula as they look rather like a male body part! No offense meant to anyone out there.

I had a few good laughs with that one when I first started doing this project.
The kids really loved doing the project.

Daf · **Landform Activity** 11-11-2008, 09:55 AM

I am currently teaching landforms. I plan on giving each student a big squirt of shaving cream on their desk and we will create each 3D landform on their desk. We do glacier, hill, mountain, plateau, valley, etc. It sounds like trouble, but I've done it before and the students have behaved and responded well.