Landforms

[swellmomma]

We have landforms coming up soon in Science for my older kids. We have been doing little unit studies and lapbooks so far for our other topics but this one is tougher. I found a lapbook for caves, but aside from a coloring book and a poster I have not found anything really great to cover landforms. Any ideas? THis would be for my 1st, 5th and 6th graders. I am willing to adapt up for the olders or down for the younger if necessary, I just need some ideas here.

[Bayt ul-Hikmah]

Have you ever seen the Montessori land form materials? I would recommend a Google images search for "Montessori land forms" and I think you'll find some ideas that could work.

 

Downloadable materials for purchase here.

 

HTH!

[plain jane]

 

Great Science Adventures makes a landforms book. I'm not sure if you're familiar with GSA but their products are really well done.

[Thea]

Great Science Adventures makes a landforms book. I'm not sure if you're familiar with GSA but their products are really well done.

 

This would be my suggestion as well.

[plain jane]

 

This is also a nice little book that will give kids basic information and a jumping off point. There are no activities or anything in it but we've learned a lot from it. You may want to add it to your studies.

[Chris in VA]

Just another plug for the Montessori way--The youngers make the forms out of clay, and they add water to the small tray. The olders do a book.

What's neat is that they pair landforms which are opposites, something I never considered before (ex. A lake is water surrounded by land. An island is land surrounded by water.)

[swellmomma]

This is also a nice little book that will give kids basic information and a jumping off point. There are no activities or anything in it but we've learned a lot from it. You may want to add it to your studies.

 

 

Ohh I have that book on my shelf. I forgot all about it.

 

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I had not known about the montessori method of learning about them and will look more closely into that.

[mcconnellboys]

Geography from A to Z covers a bunch of landforms. You could make your own mini-books and put them together into a lapbook.... The peninsula could be shaped like that land form; the island could be an island that they decorate (with drawings and/or stickers); the mountain could be that land form, perhaps snowcapped, etc.

[JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst]

There is also a Bobbie Kalman book-Introducing Landforms. I like this one since it gives actual pictures rather than drawings.

 

Also-the Trail Guide series or maybe Ultimate Book of Geography and Timelines has the kids make a geography dictionary. Basically draw a picture and write a short definition and many of the terms are landforms. They have notebooking pages but you could just as easily use notecards on a ring-picture on the blank side, definition on the lines.