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Lesson Plan: Tuesday – Landforms in continents

Name: Ivana Cortez Grade: 3rd Grade Date: 4/2021

Subject: Social Studies THEME: Geography

LESSON TOPIC: Landforms

OBJECTIVES:
Language:
• Students will be able to write 3 facts about the countries China, Egypt,
Illinois, Brazil, Cape Even’s Scott base, France, and New Zealand.
Content:
• Students will be able to identify the terms continents, landforms, river,
lake, glacier, mountain, plains, desert, and canyons.
• Students will be able to locate the continents on a map.
• Students will be able to locate Egypt, Nepal, Brazil, Illinois, South Pole or
base, France, and New Zealand with its landform and continent.
STANDARDS:
Common Core:
CCSS.SS.G.1.3 – Locate major landforms and bodies of water on a map or other
representation.

WIDA:
ELP.S5. level 1.3-5 – Writing: Label features of communities or regions depicted in
pictures or maps.

LEARNING STRATEGIES: Multimedia Presentations (Strategy #46)

KEY VOCABULARY:
• Continents – North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and
Oceania, and Antarctica.
• Landforms – Different shapes of land on Earth.
• Coast – The edge of land, can be rocky with cliffs or a beach, where it meets an
ocean.
• River – a large stream of fresh water that flows into a lake or ocean.
• Lake – a body of fresh water that has land all around it.
• Glacier – a slowly moving mass or river of ice.
• Mountain – a very high area of rocky land.
• Plains – Huge areas of nearly flat land that are covered in bushes, forests,
grasslands, or prairies.
• Desert – Dry areas that get very little rain and strong winds.
• Canyons – found in dry areas and are deeper than the land around them.

MATERIALS:
Teacher:
• Book: Introducing Landforms by Bobbie Kalman
• Landform notes worksheet
• PowerPoint

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• Interactive notebook
• Writing utensil
• Glue stick
• Dry erase board
• Dry erase marker
• Matching landforms to definitions worksheet
• Geography booklet
• Coloring utensils
• Electronic devices
MOTIVATION:
(Building background)
First thing in the morning, I will have the students pick up the landform notes
worksheet from my desk and bring it back to their seat with them. I will open up the
discussion with asking the students the question “Has anyone heard of the word
landforms before?” and I will follow up with “can anyone tell me what they think the
word landform means?”. After students have shared their definition with me, I will give
them positive reinforcement and then verbally share with them the definition of
landforms. I will then write the term and definition on the board. I will then have the
students glue the landforms worksheet into their interactive notebook. After they all
have finished gluing the worksheet into their notebook, I will introduce the book
Introducing Landforms by Bobbie Kalman to the class and give them a summary about
what the book is about. Before I dismiss them to the carpet, I will have the students
bring their interactive notebook and writing utensil with them to the carpet. Then, I
will tell the students to listen very carefully to the reading and to write down the
landforms they hear under the right column “landform name”. Finally, I will begin the
reading.

PRESENTATION:
(Language and content objectives, comprehensible input, strategies, interaction, feedback)
After the reading, I will have the students raise their hand and share a type of
landform they heard from the story. I will write these on the board as well. Then I will
have the students go back to their seat and research pictures of all the landforms they
found and draw a picture of them on the left column of their worksheet that matches
the term. Once the students have finished drawing their landforms, I will have the
students take notes on the PowerPoint I will be presenting on countries, state, and
base (Lake Michigan in Illinois, the Sahara Desert in Egypt, Mount Everest in Nepal,
amazon river in Brazil, Verdon Gorge in France, Canterbury Plains in New Zealand, and
the Glaciers in the South Pole) in the 7 continents that we will be focusing on.

PRACTICE AND APPLICATION:

(Meaningful activities, interaction, strategies, practice and application, feedback)
During the PowerPoint the students will write down 3 facts about the countries or base
mentioned in the PowerPoint in their landforms worksheet that is in their interactive
notebook. After the PowerPoint, I will handout another worksheet that has a map on it
with blank spots on the continent spots that the students will need to place the correct
continents in its place. After they have located the continents, they will then try to
locate the countries and base in the right continent. Then, the final step will be placing
the right landform in the continent with its right country or base.

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REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT:

(Review objectives and vocabulary, assess learning)
I will review the terms we are going to be focusing on throughout this unit. As I am
going over them, I will have the students highlight the key terms in their landform’s
worksheet. This is so they can review them on their free time. I will go over the map
worksheet with the class. Using a different color, they will write the correct term in any
of the spots they got wrong. Then, I will pass out the geography booklet. I will share
with the class an example of what it will look like and that the purpose of this booklet
is to record all the facts we learn about landforms. Then the students will decorate
their cover, the map of the continents, and write their name on the cover. This will be
kept at school. Then they will draw a picture of the landform in the country or base on
each page. On the right page of the picture, they will record facts about that landform
and country or base.

EXTENSION:
For their homework, the students will get a vocabulary worksheet. They will have to
match the correct term to its definition. This will be due the next day for grading.
(Reproduction of this material is restricted to use with Echevarria, Vogt, and Short, 2008. Making Content
Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model.)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jxAHr6x6xYc-
R3ZZgCJyAHtK3n3ARVA4MTjsqJ1H71g/edit?usp=sharing - link to PowerPoint

Illustration Landform Name

Introducing Landforms by Bobbie Kalman Book

Landform’s worksheet

map worksheet

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Matching landforms to definitions worksheet
Name________ Date______

Directions: Match the landforms to their definition.

__ A large stream of fresh water

that flows into a lake or ocean.
__ A body of fresh water that a. river
has land all around it. b. canyon
c. lake
__ A slowly moving mass or river d. plains
of ice. e. mountain
f. desert
__ A very high area of rocky land. g. glacier
__ Huge areas of nearly flat land
that are covered in bushes,
forests, grasslands, or prairies.
__ Dry areas that get very little rain
and strong winds.
__ Found in dry areas and are
deeper than the land around them.

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