Interdisciplinary_connections

Project Title: Landforms Project Purpose: Students will identify various landforms, their characteristics, distinguishing features and how they were formed.
CORE PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Students will: View the teacher-created Power Point presentation depicting a variety of landforms throughout the world Work in groups to study the effects of erosion and deposition Experiment with stream tables to replicate erosion and deposition Use slope to create a canyon Make their own landform, create a flood and examine its effects on their landform Create individual models of integrated landforms Photograph highlights of the landform models Create a class Power Point presentation to be shared with other fifth grade classes and the incoming fifth graders Take an on-line assessment of the landform unit
Curriculum Goals	Technology Integration
Science: 1. Describe how natural forces shape and reshape the Earth's surface through erosion and deposition. 2. Describe how Landforms can change as a result of geological activities such as floods, earthquakes, or volcanoes. 3. Use maps to identify land features and their location. 4. Recognize that some changes in the Earth's surface are abrupt, while other changes happen very slowly. 5. Recognize that scientists have different explanations for the same set of observations, which usually leads to additional observations to resolve the differences. 6. Recognize that sometimes scientists have different explanations for the same set observations, which usually leads to additional observations to resolve the differences. Language Arts: 1. Use prior knowledge and experiences 2. Engage in a process of generating ideas, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing or presenting 3. Proofread and edit for grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization 4. Speak and write using conventional patterns of syntax and diction Social Studies: Apply geographic knowledge, skills and concepts to understand human behavior in relation to the physical and cultural environment.	1. Use digital photography to photograph their landform models 2. Download digital photographs to the Landform folder under Student Work on the network 3. Create individual Power Point slides, inserting the digital photos, that will be combined to form a "Class" presentation 4. Use the data projector for the presentations