Ideas for Landforms Project
I'm looking for any advice that might be offered regarding websites that appeal to special education third graders (reading at a 1st or beginning 2nd grade level) that involve landforms. I'm currently taking the PBS Teacherline Capstone course and I'd like to create a webpage that brings my students directly to text, photos/illustrations of geographical landforms. I also work with two other teachers who have a significant amount of Academic Intervention Services students as well as a handful of gifted and talents children (48 in all). I hope to have the students create a class landforms dictionary either in Powerpoint or Smart Notebook.
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Permalink Reply by Anne Pemberton on
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On idea would be to have the kids type in the various "landforms" to google or another search engine, and add the word "images" .... then look at the sources they get. Also, check out what is available on Enchanted Learning. They have some good geography materials.
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Permalink Reply by Janet Toto on
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Thanks Anne! I like the idea of the students getting authentic pictures of landforms and a google search makes sense!
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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on
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I'd be interested to hear if you come up with anything. We teach landforms to 4th grade. All I could find were a few videos.
By the way, are you enjoying the Capstone course? I am thinking of doing that myself if I get time...
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The Capstone course just started and so far, so crazy...mostly because no matter how prepared I felt for the new crew this year, I'm still feeling the crunch being in a new grade level. Couple that with a technology course and my head is spinning. Truthfully, I was heading for the hills figuring I couldn't handle both but the Labor Day weekend helped put my head on straight. Katie Muhtaris, another angel on the internet, provided me with a link to brainpop jr that deals with landforms and since our school has a subscription that video has been added to my bag of tricks!
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Permalink Reply by Katie Muhtaris on
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Yeah, but it is 'subscribe to watch'. However, BrainPop is now on NetTrekker if your school has a subscription to that...
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Thanks Katie, the video piece is a great, kid-friendly touch!
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Permalink Reply by Ann Knipper on
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For junior high kids my husband did an activity where he put drops of paint on sheet of paper, then the kids folded the paper in half smearing the paint drops. They opened their paper sheets, and let the paint dry. Then the students would label their landforms islands, peninsulas, bays.ect. If the paper creased or crinkled some mountains might form.
Each one was unique and the kids had fun.
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Yeah, and we have made landscapes out of paper mache, painted them, and labeled each landform with a flag, but I thought you were looking for a tech solution, so I didn't offer that up as a suggestion.
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I'll take whatever help I can get. I could use the digital camera to take pictures of their projects too! I'll have to check on the NetTrekker access at school as well but I know we have a brain pop subscription. It's nice when things work out.
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