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Landforms
By Wendie

One of the ways I teach landforms is that we make a "3-D booklet" for lack of a better word. We use brown construction paper and cut mountains. That is our back. Then the students create hills from green construction paper.
Make sure the hills are smaller than the mountains. The next layer is blue construction paper. The blue represents the water. On the same blue strip I have them cut an ocean wave and a lake (on the same strip.)I have the students begin cutting a strip then turn the strip into a wave, then back into a strip which represents the river. Then from the river they cut out a shape that

looks like a lake. THe last layer is stapled on top of the blue paper which would be a flat green strip to represent the plains. I also have the students draw snow on a few of the mountains so that I can show them how the snow melts and travels down in a stream which them meets up with the river or lake. I hope this helps!!
Wendie