Bscs: Earth's Changing Surface: Using Relief Maps to Learn About Landforms

Using relief maps, students will learn that landforms can be different from one place to another. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

Students will learn that landforms can change over time in this activity. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

This hands-on lesson focuses on the land and its many different types of landforms and bodies of water. Included are a minute-by-minute lesson plan, activities, and teacher discussion points and questions.

This is written to support and further your content learning about the dynamic nature of Earth's surface. The goal is for you to develop a conceptual understanding of landforms so that you will be able to more effectively teach...

In this video, students use relief maps to learn about landforms in different places. [2:05]

In this video, a teacher and students use a relief map to think about patterns they see in landforms. [2:40]

Watch as a teacher sets up a lesson with a focus question and then elicits student ideas about landforms in different places based on the places those students have visited. [1:37]

Based on the evidence provided in a reading and small group discussion, students work individually to decide whether or not landforms change in this video. [1:21]

In this video, a teacher elicits ideas from a small group of students and probes their ideas about land and things on the land. [2:00]

In this video, a small group of students discuss what change they might see in a river delta over time and how fast the change is occurring. [3:34]