Earth's Materials and Changes: Landforms

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«     Introduction

You have been hired as an Elder Grove Ranger. As an Elder Grove Ranger, it is your responsibility to teach students about various landforms. This webquest is part of your training. It will help you explore a variety of landforms. Once you have completed it, you will be ready to share your knowledge with other students and train future Elder Grove Rangers. Good luck!

                                                                                                                       

«     Task

After researching landforms, you will be able to create a book that you can share with Elder Grove students. Included in your book will be...

an illustration of each landform

a description of each landform

definitions of  mountains, plateau, valleys, canyons, and plains

 

When participating in these activities you will need to access the Internet for information and use your science notebook for taking notes. Any other supplies needed will be provided by your teacher. Please make sure you have read the necessary materials and know what is required.

«     Process

1. First your teacher will give you a scoring rubric for your project on landforms.

2. Search the sites below to learn about each landform. Add important and interesting facts that you find about each landform to your science notebook.

 

Links: Mountains Plateau Valleys Canyons Plains http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/plainmr.htm

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«    Your Job!

Think about what you learned after reading the information. Then write these vocabulary words and their definitions in your science journal: 

«    mountains

«    plateau

«    valleys

«    canyons

«    plains

Make a book about your landforms. Be sure to include these things:

1. an illustration and the name of each landform

2. a description of each landform

3. a definition in sentence form of each landform

 

 

 

«     Evaluation

Your head scientist is very proud of the information you have gathered and learned. You and will be graded on the following guidelines:

 

 

 

 

Name:_________________________________________

Scoring Rubric

		Plains	Mountains	Plateau	Valleys	Canyons			Totals
Illustration 0-4 points	Neat, clear, large drawing that is labeled and closely modeled after a picture of the landform.
Description 0-3 points	Description includes information about what the landform looks like including its shape.
Definition 0-3 points	Complete definition in sentence form.
Title Page 0-2 points
TOTALS

«     Conclusion

Congratulations! You are now a Elder Grove Ranger!! You will now be able to teach other Elder Grove students about landforms.