Earth Features

The student will understand that the earth has many geological features that are constantly changing.

Geological Features

1.  Review Types of Landforms http://www.mce.k12tn.net/animals/environments/landforms/landform.htm
 

2.  PowerPoints that Go Over Landforms

1. Land Forms (easy)

   [PPT] What are Landforms? (simple)

   [PPT] Landform Picture Dictionary

   http://mabryonline.org/blogs/burke/archives/2006/09/landforms_power.html

   [PPT] Landform Definitions

   [PPT] Landforms (noisy)

3.  Landforms, continents Jeopardy

4.  TCAP Coach Lesson 18 "Recognizing Geological Features" pages 110-112

5.  Create landforms using icing on graham crackers.

How Wind and Water Change the Earth’s Geological Features

1. Use "Our Changing Earth" science photo cards to show students processes that change the earth.
    
   • Card 2 Volcano
   • Card 3 Earthquake Fault
   • Card 4 Earthquake Damage
   • Card 5 Tsunami
   • Card 6 Weathering of Rock
   • Card 7 Weathering of Rock by Running Water
   • Card 8 Erosion
   • Card 9 Glacier
   • Card 10 Wind Erosion
   • Card 11 Mudslide
   • Card 12 Weathering and Erosion by Wind and Rain
   • Card 13 Weathering and Erosion by Moving Water
      
2. Have students illustrate processes that change land:

• Graphic Organizer
• Graphic Organizer with Graphics

4.  BrainPOP "Erosion" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/erosion/

5.  United Streaming

• Junior Geologist: How Does the Land Wear Down?   (10:51)
• Junior Geologist: Our Planet Earth   (10:52)
• Earthquakes (3:16)
• Volcanoes (04:41)
• Downpours (04:31)

6.  TCAP Coach Lesson 19 "Erosion, Deposition, and Geological Features" pages 113-115

Earth's Layers

1. 1.  Resource Book Geology - Science Works for Kids Series

2.                Pages 13-15 Book - "The Layers of the Earth"
    

3. 2.  Lesson using an apple to represent the earth http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200104/ai_n8948064

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5. 3.  The Earth's Interior http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/swfs/earth.swf

4.  BrainPop http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/earthsstructure/

1. 5.  Show video The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth
    

2. 6.  Take It To Your Seat Science Centers Grades 3-4 "The Earth's Layers" pages 147-153

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4. 7.  TCAP Coach Lesson 20 "Layers of Earth" pages 116-118