Who has done the topography lesson with the clear take out trays? Love to hear what you did and include any links to materials you have!
Below is a powerpoint and lesson plan Gina Tanner did with her 4th graders from Mary E. Silveira.
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Megan Liebman
2/25/2016 11:44:12 am
Thank you Gina for sharing this. I am looking forward to doing this lesson towards the end of the year in connection with our 4th grade social studies topic of local history (Angel Island). Next year I plan on doing it at the beginning of the year when we study regions and landforms.
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Kathryn Cimarelli
2/27/2016 07:55:37 am
I did this activity with my fourth graders, and they were really engaged! I introduced the activity with the lesson in our social studies book, but I like your power point and will use it next year. It is always amazing what the students will do to extend the project like reversing the trays to simulate a hole in the ground!
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John Flanagan
3/13/2016 11:43:59 pm
We did this Angel Island topo project in our sixth grade science classes and then used it to bridge to a longer term, integrated project in which students create their own islands with landforms constructed out of topographic layers cut from cardboard. We all started with simple mountains before opening it up to more complex landforms. Josh Powell, the art teacher here at Davidson, made a great power point about how to create various landforms in this way. Email him if you want to see it. He's a great guy who's always willing to share!
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Jenn Stewart
3/20/2016 04:58:02 pm
I’ve also done this Angel Island topographic map activity at Venetia Valley with my 6th grade students during our Shaping Earth’s Surface Unit. What I love about this activity is that the trays can be re-used each year by having the students use wet-erase markers to make their 3D topographic maps. Like Davidson, we also use this as a starting point for our cardboard topographic island project. However, I’m interested in having the students create a pre-island using the same trays in the Angel Island activity to create a layered topographic map visual of what they want their cardboard island to look like.
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