A. Identify how Land Formations Occur
B. Create clay models of an imaginary tract of land that contains many land formations such as plains, mountains, plateaus, canyonons or valleys.
C. Have students label each formation
D. Have students identify national parks with land foramtion that are unique to those areas
E. Provide several graphs/topographic representations of land formations.
1. Poem (Example)
Sculpting Nature
Pressure plates grind and slide,
Ridges rise out of the depths,
Muscles exposed to sun and rain
Wear down deep grooves, caves
Openings; form arches, bridges.
Ancient sea beds laid bare,
A hidden legacy, then under water,
Now dry layers exposed.
Chart the course, feel the power
of unseen sculptor’s hands,
Slow time moving by eons.
Feel the power and be awed before such beauty.
Land Forms
Pressure builds within the belly,
Liquid rock spews forth,
Explodes with force,
Steam and smoke billow skyward.
Water cools the rock and land is formed,
Breaking the water’s expanse.
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Land forms stand before the wearing
Of the rain and wind.
Erosion grooves form, shaping, softening,
Surface changes, water levels rise and carve
Between ridges and one land becomes two.
2. How will I use it in the classroom.
I will use it to help me get students to gain an appreciation for writing, analyzing, reading and listening to poetry, viewing poems as a motivation for studying land formations. They study and create their own Land Formations about poems with some illustrations.
Good use for the poem!
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