[sheilagey]

Does anyone have any cool Landforms activities? Thanks in advance.

[griffsmom]

I had my class get in groups and make different landforms out of play-doh...it was fun.

[sharon77]

I do a review activity where I split the class up into pairs or groups and pass around pictures of different landforms. I also put 2 or 3 other random pictures in there with them (like a pretty fall picture or an animal picture, that don't show a landform, and give them a title such as 'fall beauty'). I have a list of all the choices on the board and the students get a few minutes to look at their picture and decide what it is before I pass them to the next group. The pictures are numbered and they write their answers down on a piece of paper. I have gotten my pictures out of travel magazines, etc. and laminated them to use each year.

[coolbeans]

We get our art teacher to make some "stuff." It's probably homemade play-doh. She uses brown, green, and yellow dye. She dyes most of the stuff green. We cut out US maps from card board. We leave an edge to it so the students can paint the oceans, Canada, and Mexico. They use the "stuff" and form the plains/flat land out of green. They form mountain chains from the brown and deserts out of yellow. They have fun forming the land masses and it's a great project to take home once it dries. Oh yeah, we have to use the "stuff" within a day of it being made or it gets stinky and yucky to touch.

[Buckeye06]

We did a webquest:

http://www1.bellevuepublicschools.or...formpage1.html

Thanks to B. Jones the creator!

I think teachersclubhouse has an "I Have Who Has" Landform game too!

[kerilyn137]

We do a landforms step book that turns out really nice. If you want to know more about it, let me know.

[patschmidt]

Sounds interesting.. please tell more

[sheilagey]

I would love to hear more.

[hrush]

One of the teachers in my building has used the Paint on the computer to have the students draw the and label landforms.

[kerilyn137]

Here are the directions for the step book. This is from our Social Studies Curriculum. First, you need to cut a lot of construction paper in the following ways:
yellow 9"x4"
green 9'x6"
blue 9"x8"
brown 9"x10"
white 9"x12"

You will also need a paper grocery bag, paper plates, watercolors, crayons, glue, and labels(if you want to use them).

1. Cut the construction paper. Stack the colored strips with the shortest on top and the longest on the bottom. Staple the stack to the flap of the bag, creating a step book.
2. Using a green crayon, create land masses on the paper plate, coloring darkly. Paint the rest of the plate blue. Cut the plate in half and glue one half to the bottom flap of the bag.
3. Label the layers of the step book for the different environments: Yellow- desert, green- forest, blue- water, brown- mountains, white- Arctic. Glue a title to the bottom flap, and a label to each of the layers (I had them write: My earth has... (mountains, water, etc.).
4.Cut or decorate the top edge of each layer. Add details, such as sand for the desert, glitter for the Arctic, peaks for the mountains, grass for the forest.
5. You can use the bag for whatever. I save it for Open House and have them use the bags for their portfolios!

[kerilyn137]

I also have them create their own map of an island. They need to create a legend or map key with different symbols for landforms (forest, plain, mountain, hill, desert, lake, etc.). Then they take their maps to the computer lab and draw it using Kid Pix.

[teachnchic]

Do you have a picture of the book or link to the Social Studies Curriculum? I guess you would say that I am a visual learner. Thanks!