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200 resources with the concept topography

Accessible Shapes Unit

Accessible Shapes

Lesson Planet
6th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
All the 2-D and 3-D measurement work you need is in one location. Divided into three sections, the geometry lesson plans consist of visualization of three dimensions, classifying geometric figures, and finding surface area and volume....
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Build a Watershed Activities & Project

Build a Watershed

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3rd - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
What's the best way to learn how watersheds work? Build one! Combining engineering, the water cycle, and ecology concerns, the activity is the perfect fit for an interdisciplinary unit. Teams construct a model watershed with simple...
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Playground Profiling—Topographic Profile Mapping Lesson Plan

Playground Profiling—Topographic Profile Mapping

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9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
The Kuril islands stretch from Japan to Russia, and the ongoing dispute about their jurisdiction prevents many scientific research studies. Scholars learn to create a topographic profile of a specific area around their schools. Then they...
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Mapping Skills
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Mapping Skills

Lesson Planet
6th - 8th
From compasses to Google Earth, these mapping resources will help your students get acquainted with mapping skills both old and new. You'll find resources here about both political and physical maps, and a number of the activities are interdisciplinary in nature, using maps to shed light on things like climate change, population distribution, and more.
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Biome Basics with a Disastrous Twist Unit

Biome Basics with a Disastrous Twist

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7th
CCSS: Designed
Bored with your current biome bag of tricks? This bundle is a bountiful bag of biome fun! Travel the globe with seventh graders and explore the biotic and abiotic factors that define our world's biomes. Then, introduce a little chaos to...
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Constructing and Visualizing Topographic Profiles Lesson Plan

Constructing and Visualizing Topographic Profiles

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6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Militaries throughout history have used topography information to plan strategies, yet many pupils today don't understand it. Scholars use Legos and a contour gauge to understand how to construct and visualize topographic profiles. This...
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The Tide is High, but I’m Holding On… Using ICESat Data to Investigate Sea Level Rise Lesson Plan

The Tide is High, but I’m Holding On… Using ICESat Data to Investigate Sea Level Rise

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Based on the rate of melting observed from 2003-2007 in Greenland, it would take less than 10 minutes to fill the Dallas Cowboys' Stadium. The 17th lesson in a series of 21 has scholars use the ICESat data to understand the ice mass...
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Fire Ecology on the Rim Unit

Fire Ecology on the Rim

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9th - 12th
An engaging unit on wildfires includes three sections, including a background section with eight lessons and five activities, a field experience section with 13 lessons and five activities, and a conclusion section featuring an analysis...
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Plate Tectonics II Lesson Plan

Plate Tectonics II

Lesson Planet
9th - 12th
Mid-ocean ridges, rift valleys, island arcs, mountain ranges, earthquakes, volcanoes ... there are so many features associated with plate tectonics. The 14th installment of a 23-part NOAA Enrichment in Marine sciences and Oceanography...
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A Google Earth Introduction to Remote Sensing Lesson Plan
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A Google Earth Introduction to Remote Sensing

Lesson Planet
6th - 12th
Explore the world and gain insight into remote sensing with a lesson plan that showcases the program, Google Earth. To learn about remote sensing, scholars follow step-by-step instructions to uncover the tools embedded in Google Earth...
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Fire Behavior in Forests Lesson Plan
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Fire Behavior in Forests

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3rd - 7th
Understanding the ways a fire will act is a key factor in fire safety and fire prevention. Young campers focus on how the weather and terrain can affect the behavior of a fire with topographic maps and different scenarios.
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Where is it Windy? Lesson Plan

Where is it Windy?

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6th - 12th
How is the wind up there? The class builds a topography model using materials available in the classroom, then place wind flags in different locations on the landscape. Using a fan as a wind source, pupils collect data about how wind...
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Fire Investigation and Experimentation Lesson Plan

Fire Investigation and Experimentation

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4th - 8th
Assess the probability of a wildfire with several lessons about fire danger ratings and risk factors. After experimenting with fuel moisture, learners explore the various elements that could contribute to a wildfire, such as wind speed,...
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Earth's Shape Presentation

Earth's Shape

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6th - 10th
Several slides systematically guide cartographers though the processes of reading topographic maps and converting them into profiles of a landscape. 
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Predicting Ground Water Flow Lesson Plan
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Predicting Ground Water Flow

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9th - 11th
CCSS: Adaptable
After background reading on ground and surface water is complete, young hydrologists create a water table contour map. The map displays the elevation of surrounding areas and requires that the cartologists draw contour lines and arrows...
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Australia Video

Australia

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5 mins 5th - 8th
It's as if you're sitting on the wings of an eagle and soaring over the continent of Australia! See the varying regions and get a quick overview of the country's land. This video is non-narrated, but it provides a beautiful look at...
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Topography Video

Topography

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2 mins 3rd - 8th
Hawaii Preparatory Students, Julia and Rachel, teach viewers about topographic maps. They use great visuals and clear narration to help explain topography.
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Longitude and Latitude Video

Longitude and Latitude

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2 mins 3rd - 8th
Pinhead Patty takes us around the globe and explains what latitude and longitude are in this entertaining video. The author uses an orange to demonstrate the line measurements on a sphere.
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The Mathematics of Latitude and Longitude Video

The Mathematics of Latitude and Longitude

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1 min 3rd - 8th
Latitude and longitude lines are explained in this video. Students focus on the mathematics and how to calculate distance using the degrees of various locations.
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Map Scale and Ratios Video

Map Scale and Ratios

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2 mins 3rd - 8th
Introduce you map scale and ratios lesson with this informative video. A student demonstrates how to properly use a scale on a map, as well as read a topographic map. This is a fantastic video to show during your map unit!
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Banana Teaches Longitude and Latitude Video

Banana Teaches Longitude and Latitude

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1 min 3rd - 8th
Luke, a student at Hawaii Preparatory Academy, explains the differences between longitude and latitude. He also explains why they are important.
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Mapping the Shape of Everest Lesson Plan

Mapping the Shape of Everest

Lesson Planet
4th - 6th
With Mount Everest as the motivator, your earth science class learns about topographic maps. Begin by showing a film clip from The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, featuring fearsome virtual imagery of a path up world's tallest peak....
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Marine Energy Lesson Plan

Marine Energy

Lesson Planet
7th - 12th
In small groups, energy engineers research and make a topographic map of a marine natural resource. They report to the rest of the class pros and cons of extracting their assigned resource. The two activities may take up to four class...
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A Question of Rivers Presentation

A Question of Rivers

Lesson Planet
7th - 12th
Interactive PowerPoints are terrific tools for self quizzing before an exam. This particular presentation is about the action and physical features of rivers. There are nine boxes to click on, each leading to a picture or map. When you...
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