Landforms Lesson Plan: Earth’s Systems
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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP Jr. topic Landforms, and supports the standard of representing the shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water in an area. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.
Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
Display an image of a landscape with some different landforms, like this one:
Prompt students to share what they notice.
Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE
- Play the Landforms movie.
- Click the pause button each time a question appears in Annie’s Notebook and discuss it as a class. Then play to see how Annie answers it.
TIP: The pause button turns red to remind you to pause.
Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS
Students take the Easy Quiz or Hard Quiz, demonstrating what they learned about the topic while applying essential literacy skills.
Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND
Students express what they learned about landforms while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student or grade-level needs.
- Draw About It: Draw a landscape that includes a landform.
- Activity: Write a shape poem about a mountain or hill.
- Talk About It: Find and describe examples of different landforms on a map or globe.
- Write About It: Write about a landform you’d like to visit and explain why.
More to Explore
Land Unit: Continue to build understanding around Earth’s systems by exploring more BrainPOP Jr. topics.
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