Description
What is included in this Landforms Project & Research Unit?
This landforms research unit is perfect for students who are learning how to use informational text and studying landforms and bodies of water. It is a great landform activity for landform reports and more. Students can conduct traditional book and/or internet research.
Students will first learn how to use the text features in an informational text including the table of contents and index. They will also learn how to find credible sources on the internet. Then, students will be assigned a landform or body of water to research(and optionally, a partner or group to work with). Students will have a Landforms Research Journal that they will use as a guide as they research the landforms in general as well as their assigned landforms. Editable sections have been added to the research journals so you may add your own questions!
Once students have completed their research, they will use it to complete two culminating activities: a report/presentation and a salt dough model of their landform. Finally, other classes and parents will be invited to the “Landform Fair” where your students can show off their cool landforms!
Contents:
- Teacher Info Pages: This includes a sample unit outline, grading rubric, lesson plans for internet research, intro lesson, research journals, and final projects.
- Book research/ text features worksheets: Students will review other text features including a glossary, titles, headings, photos, captions, graphs/charts, and special print. They will also compare and contrast the table of contents and index.
- Internet research worksheets: These worksheets will familiarize your students with how to find credible sources on the internet for research.
- Landform Cards Cards with the name and clip art of each type of landform or body of water. You can use these to assign students a landform or body of water to research.
- Research Journals: The research journals will guide the students throughout their research. There is one question on each page for the students to find the answer to. 19 pre-written pages are included, plus 2 blank ones to add your own questions. Full-page and half-page versions are BOTH included in this resource. Choose which version is best for your students.
- Salt Dough Landform & Landform Report Instructions Lesson plan for the student’s final project
- Salt Dough Landform Example A photo example of the final project
- Parent Letter & Landform Fair Invitation: Keep the parents in the loop! Let them know what is going on with the landform unit and invite them to the landform fair, if you decide to host one.
- Final Report Pages and info: A final report page is included as well as examples and lessons to have students create a salt dough model of their landform.
- **BONUS! ALL PAGES in the document are included in both vivid color AND Ink Friendly Black & White for your convenience**
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This unit looks fun and engaging. It is perfect for the topic we just started. I can’t wait to use it in my classroom!
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Kristin E. –
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Jessica T. –
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Sara –
The hands on for this one looks like so much fun!!
These units are designed to engage students and not just be printed work sheets. They are working, researching and getting their hands dirty at the same time! What I love most about the units, is the formats are all the same across themes. Your students become familiar with the structure and this makes the transitions so much easier.
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Carla F. –
This was a great resource to provide guidance for my kids and their research.
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Laura Villavicencio –
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Katharine W. –
Perfect resource for our Landforms unit! I’m so pleased that it is also available digitally!
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused unit. This unit has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. Having these in Google Slides format is perfect so my students can research and create on their computer both in school and at home without losing their work.
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Amy S. –
Excellent research focused packet on landforms. This packet has everything to help get the students started with their research and work through the project. I really like the choice cards to help divide up the topics easily.
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Trina C. –
This is an amazing packet and I am so excited to add it to my resources to use with my students to keep them engaged in learning.
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anne.anastasia –
I love that the bundle of these units has BOTH digital and printable resources!
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anne.anastasia –
This is perfect for my ELA class on “technical writing”, which will have students doing crosscurricular research and research projects. Thank you so much for saving me a ton of time!!!
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Ashlee T. –
Great resource for landforms research! Thanks!
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Brock Star Teachers –
Using it as an extended project for kids that finish early and GT kids. Thanks for a great product.
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Jessica F. –
My students loved using this resource!
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All Things NEW –
This resource provided easy to use materials for distance learning. My student’s enjoyed it.
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Sarah Dreger –
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Lauren V. –
This was a great resource to go along with our unit of inquiry.
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Cyderia G. –
This is good material; however, I think it would work best with students with higher abilities. My students who are struggling readers had difficulty comprehending it and I had to supplement other materials that could meet their needs.
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ashley A. –
Great resource for my self contained high school class!
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Jessica G. –
This is a well organized project. It gets to the point and the digital version makes it fun!
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Mary M. –
All of the items that I’ve purchased have been great. This one is well organized and provides a great foundation for teaching landforms.
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Brenda Forti –
Terrific resource! We used it with my advanced students as a template for an end of unit project.
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Sarah Z. –
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The Kewl Teacher –
great resource!!
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Megan D. –
I have used this several years now. Overall, I think the product is good, but with younger kiddos we had to modify and model a lot. When I use it later in the year, my higher kids can do more with it.
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mazen M. –
I liked this resource, but I felt that many pages were not useful to my students. Another issue was I wish there was a modeled example of type of landform. Overall, a good resource.
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Nicolle M. –
I used this resource in conjunction with our science unit on rocks and landforms.
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