
This unit introduces students to Geomorphology
which is the study of landforms. They will learn about
common landforms and how they are created.
UNIT GOALS:
UNIT ACTIVITIES: 1. Changing Channels in Midstream: Uses experiments to see how different variables affect sediment movement forming stream channels: straight, meandering and braided. 2. Varying Valleys: Uses experiments to show how three valley types are formed: U-valleys, V-valleys and plain valleys. 3. Deposit a slice of pie: Uses experiments to demonstrate how triangle shaped landforms are created: alluvial fan, delta, mud and debris flows. 4. Pushing and Pulling Mountains: Demonstrates how some mountain ranges are created by extension and compression forces acting on the crust. 5. Planar Plateaus: Allows students to see how flat-topped mountains are formed. 6. Earth's pimple problem: Teaches about the three types of volcanoes and what causes them to form. 7. Remembering Landforms: Is the culminating activity of this unit. It uses pictures, landform names and processes that form each landform to play a memory match game. |
Last updated: February 24, 2015