Process
Step 1. To accomplish your task, you must first complete this vocabulary sheet to identify different types of landforms and to tell the difference between weathering and erosion. Use the resources provided on the links below.
What are Landforms?
Landforms Glossary
Weathering and Erosion Video
Weathering and Erosion
Step 2. Next, you will be divided into groups of three to form your home team. Each member of your team will be responsible for researching information and bringing it back to teach your fellow home team members. You and your home teammates may now choose which piece of information each of you will be responsible for below:
Student 1-You will be responsible for researching how erosion affects land formations.
Student 2-You will be responsible for researching how weathering affects land formations.
Student 3-You will be responsible for researching the ways humans affect land formations.
Once you all have chosen, please make sure you have the appropriate graphic organizer.
Step 3. You will now be put with your expert team to complete your graphic organizer. When the graphic organizer is complete, you and your expert teammate(s) will each make a poster to share with your home team that helps explain the information you found. Experts, please use the links below that correspond with your topic.
Erosion
Dirtmeister's Weathering & Erosion
Effects of Water erosion
Earth Movers
Breaking it Down
Weathering
Dirtmeister's Weathering & Erosion
Do Rocks Last Forever?
Sculpting Nature
Mechanical Weathering
Earth Movers
Humans
Why Worry About Soil Erosion
How Humans Cause Erosion
Dirtmeister's Weathering and Erosion
Step 4. You will now go back to your home team and share the information you learned. You will also be learning information from your fellow teammates which you will take notes on the backside of your graphic organizer sheet.
Step 5. Now you will decide what landform you would like to write about for the digital story in the National Geographic Kids website. You will be telling the story from the perspective of the landform you choose. Please use the checklist to see what important information is expected to be included in your story. You will begin with putting important points and details on this prewriting graphic organizer. You will use your graphic organizer, poster, and notes you made in steps 3 and 4 to help write your story. You may also use the links above in step 3 or the one below to help you.
How Some Landforms Are Made
Before beginning your rough draft, please look over the scoring guide in the evaluation section to see what quality of work will be expected in the final draft of your story.
Step 6. And finally, you will now vote on a class member's story that you as a class will together make into a digital story using Moviemaker. Below is an example of what a digital story could look like. You will each have a job to perform in the construction of this story. Jobs include: a narrator, graphic artists, and technical advisors. We will now choose our story and decide what job you are responsible for to complete our task.
Granny Smith-The Life of an Apple
What are Landforms?
Landforms Glossary
Weathering and Erosion Video
Weathering and Erosion
Step 2. Next, you will be divided into groups of three to form your home team. Each member of your team will be responsible for researching information and bringing it back to teach your fellow home team members. You and your home teammates may now choose which piece of information each of you will be responsible for below:
Student 1-You will be responsible for researching how erosion affects land formations.
Student 2-You will be responsible for researching how weathering affects land formations.
Student 3-You will be responsible for researching the ways humans affect land formations.
Once you all have chosen, please make sure you have the appropriate graphic organizer.
Step 3. You will now be put with your expert team to complete your graphic organizer. When the graphic organizer is complete, you and your expert teammate(s) will each make a poster to share with your home team that helps explain the information you found. Experts, please use the links below that correspond with your topic.
Erosion
Dirtmeister's Weathering & Erosion
Effects of Water erosion
Earth Movers
Breaking it Down
Weathering
Dirtmeister's Weathering & Erosion
Do Rocks Last Forever?
Sculpting Nature
Mechanical Weathering
Earth Movers
Humans
Why Worry About Soil Erosion
How Humans Cause Erosion
Dirtmeister's Weathering and Erosion
Step 4. You will now go back to your home team and share the information you learned. You will also be learning information from your fellow teammates which you will take notes on the backside of your graphic organizer sheet.
Step 5. Now you will decide what landform you would like to write about for the digital story in the National Geographic Kids website. You will be telling the story from the perspective of the landform you choose. Please use the checklist to see what important information is expected to be included in your story. You will begin with putting important points and details on this prewriting graphic organizer. You will use your graphic organizer, poster, and notes you made in steps 3 and 4 to help write your story. You may also use the links above in step 3 or the one below to help you.
How Some Landforms Are Made
Before beginning your rough draft, please look over the scoring guide in the evaluation section to see what quality of work will be expected in the final draft of your story.
Step 6. And finally, you will now vote on a class member's story that you as a class will together make into a digital story using Moviemaker. Below is an example of what a digital story could look like. You will each have a job to perform in the construction of this story. Jobs include: a narrator, graphic artists, and technical advisors. We will now choose our story and decide what job you are responsible for to complete our task.
Granny Smith-The Life of an Apple
