Thomas
Intermediate
School
Landforms
Activity
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Thomas Intermediate School Landforms Activity |
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Complete at least one activity from each subject area. Save your work in a folder to turn in. You may look back at the previous page to see what to include in your folder.
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Language Arts |
Read this online story. Then write your own fairy tale that is based on a landform. |
Make a list of all the landforms you have seen as you have worked on this project. Use your list to make a word search puzzle. Give it to a friend to solve. You may go back to the required activity on the previous page to help you make your list. |
Make an outline using the landform terms you have learned. Be sure to include at least two examples under each heading. |
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Science |
Visit this site. Take the tour of landforms. |
Read the information about plants on this site. Write a paragraph in your own words describing how plants are adapted to live on the Plains. |
Look at the effects of weathering and erosion at Sedgehill School. Take a walk around your yard or school grounds to see if you can find any effects of weathering or erosion. Make a chart similar to the one from Sedgehill School. |
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Social Studies |
Check out this site of the Smokey Mountains. Design a travel brochure to encourage a tourist to visit! |
Look at the landform map of Tennessee on the previous site. Make your own map that shows the various landforms of our state. Don't forget a map key and elevation scale. |
Go to this site and read about Lewis and Clark's journey through the mountains. Write a paragraph explaining the ways landforms helped and hindered the explorers on their journey. |
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Math |
Calculate the mileage from your hometown to a coastal area. How long would it take you to get there if you averaged 55 MPH? |
Find out the elevation of three different mountain ranges. Make a bar graph showing these elevations. |
Write four word problems using information you have learned about landforms. Be sure to use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. |
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Arts |
Take a look at the pictures of landforms on this site. Draw a picture of a landform to display. Be creative! |
Go to this site to listen to some music. Write your own song. It can be about landforms or it can be similar to one of the songs you heard. |
Using modeling clay, styrofoam, or other materials, construct models of three different landforms. |
Be sure to check your folder. It must be complete before you turn it in!
***Special note to teachers: Be sure to look on the
next page for links to resources for teaching about landforms.(This activity was developed by Mary S. Pitner.)
pitnerm@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.usBack to the Landforms Page.
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