Point out the Great Plains, one of the largest plains in the world, located in the center of the United States. The plains are where most country’s agriculture is.
These are part of a group of mountains that stretches all the way from Canada to Alabama. Find the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Allegheny Mountains.Ask: At the foot of what mountains is the Piedmont located? (Blue Ridge Mountains) A piedmont is land at the foot of mountains. Point to different colors on the map, and have students use the map key to name the type of landform.Guide students to read the map with these prompts: These maps often use color to show mountains, hills, plateaus, plains, and more. Explain that a landform map shows the locations of landforms in a place. You can project your state map using the National Geographic MapMaker Interactive and find locations of the different landforms students describe.Ģ. Which of these landforms are near our hometown or in our state?.Can you name other landforms that you don’t see on this drawing? (small streams or creeks, islands).Which are bodies of water? ( bay, lake, river).
Which landforms are flat? ( plateau, plain, coastal plain) How are they different? (one is high, one is low and close to a coast).
Which landform is the highest? ( mountain).Ask students to describe experiences they have had of being near any of these landforms, or seeing them in a movie, in photos, or on a map. Show the photo gallery with examples of these landforms around the world. Project the Landforms map and invite volunteers to point to the different landforms, name them, and read the descriptions.
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