Earth's Features
Landforms, What Changes Earth, & Earth's Layers
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Classroom Activities
Landforms
- Enchanted Learning " Landforms and Bodies of Water" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/landforms/
- Have students create a 3-D map with play dough. The students need to create mountains, valleys, rivers, etc. on their maps.
What Changes Earth
Review weather related disasters from the weather unit: tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. Discuss other things that can change the earth such as earthquakes, erosion, volcanoes, tsunamis, etc.
- Enchanted Learning "Tsunamis" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/tsunami/
- Enchanted Learning "Volcanoes" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/volcano/
- Enchanted Learning "Hurricane" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/weather/hurricane/
Earth's Layers
- Enchanted Learning "Inside the Earth" http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Inside.shtml
Take It To Your Seat Science Center (3-4) p. 147 Earth Layers
Computer Lab Activities
Landforms
- Rivers http://www.westhamptonbeach.k12.ny.us/teachers/cohen/sciweb/earthscience/powerpoint_notes/weathering_erosion/rivers.swf
- BrainPop "Desert" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/deserts/
- BrainPop "Mountains" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/mountains/
- BrainPop "Oceans" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/oceans/
What Changes Earth
- Earthquakes http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geology/howell/goodies/elearning/module06swf.swf
- BrainPOP "Avalanches" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/avalanches/
- BrainPOP "Tsunami" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/tsunami/
- BrainPOP "Floods" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/floods/
- BrainPOP "Natural Disasters" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/naturaldisasters/
- BrainPOP "Hurricanes" http://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/hurricanes/
- BrainPOP "Erosion" http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/erosion/
Earth's Layers
- The Earth's Interior http://www.learner.org/interactives/dynamicearth/swfs/earth.swf
- The Structure of the Earth http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate1.htm
- Earth's Atmosphere http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/oils/changesact.shtml
- BrainPop http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/earthsstructure/
PowerPoint
Landforms
- Landforms http://jc-schools.net/PPT/Land_Forms.ppt
- What are Landforms http://classroom.jc-schools.net/ce/landforms.ppt
- Landform Picture Dictionary http://www.oaklandschoolsnj.org/projects/heights/landforms/candelmo.ppt
Earth's Layers
- Earth's Layers http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lesson/1206/earthslayers.ppt
United Streaming
Landforms
- Landforms: Number One (16:00)
What Changes Earth
- Elementary Video Adventures: Dynamic Earth
- Weathering and Erosion (20:00)
- Earthquakes (3:16)
- Volcanoes (04:41)
- Downpours (04:31)
Earth's Layers
- A Closer Look at Earth: Space Science Series (21:00)
- Earth: A First Look (20:00)
- The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth