Landforms Activities, Map Skills, and Writing Project

Make your science lessons come alive with these landforms activities, that include a landforms building and narrative writing project! Students explore 20 different landforms, build landform islands, practice map skills and much more!

Combining science, writing, and literacy activities, this highly engaging, hands-on unit includes ready to use lesson plans, mini lessons, 20 full-page landforms posters, and a variety of printable landforms activities and assessments.

Your students will love the landform island building project and writing creative personal narratives about their islands. The unit is loaded with resources to help your students build, plan, and write, and the detailed teacher’s notes will save you time and make planning a breeze!

Are you looking for a landforms unit that also teaches Earth changes?

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Landforms included:

• peninsula
• canyon
• volcano
• island
• plateau
• mountain
• desert
• waterfall
• hill
• valley
• bay
• plain/prairie
• ocean
• lake
• river
• glacier
• isthmus
• delta
• cave
• cliff

Included in the unit:

• Detailed 2-week lesson plan with minilesson
• Landform Islands building project using salt dough or air-dry clay
• Project directions with photos
• 20 Full-page landforms posters
• Creative narrative writing project
• -with planning pages, writing mini lesson on using adjectives to make writing more interesting, publishing paper, and map activity
• Graphic organizers for defining, comparing, and categorizing landforms
• Landform assessments & answer keys

Additional activities ideal for literacy centers:

• Map skills & cardinal directions game in 2 skill levels
• Landform vocabulary & definitions booklet
• Comparing landforms flap book
• Geography Jabber game with landforms spinners

Please download the preview to see everything included.

Happy teaching!

Linda Kamp

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