3FN3 – Social Studies – Physical Features of Geography: Landforms and Erosion

How do FreeNode lessons work?

FreeNodes are instructor-led schooling lessons with a unique approach, granting you the freedom to independently teach using a personalized lesson plan. This autonomy enables you to tailor your lessons to suit students’ individual needs, learning styles, and interests.

To use a FreeNode, read the provided class outline & follow the formatting provided for each class. Make sure to touch on the Theocratic Connection in each class. Follow the outline closely so it is aligned with our main at-home curriculum.

How Do I Use the FreeNode?

Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.

This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.

Can I show videos in FN classes?

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Class Lesson Plan

Objectives:

Students will learn about different types of landforms, understand how landforms influence where people build communities, and understand how erosion shapes landforms over time.

Materials:

Whiteboard
Visual aids (pictures of landforms, diagrams of erosion)
Interactive online resources such as videos and games (optional)

Introduction (5 minutes):

Begin by asking students if they’ve seen different kinds of land around where they live or in pictures. Introduce the idea that landforms are the shapes of the earth’s surface, and every place looks different because of them.

Theocratic Connections:

Highlight that Jehovah designed the Earth with beautiful, varied landforms. Psalm 95:4 mentions the “peaks of the mountains” as belonging to Jehovah.

Activity 1 – Types of Landforms (10 minutes):

Explain and show examples of mountains, valleys, basins, plateaus, plains, hills, and canyons. Use visual aids to make these concepts more relatable. Discuss how these landforms affect where people live (e.g., plains are good for farming, mountains are difficult to build on). Test students to see if they can identify each type of landform.

Optional: Have students draw and label different landforms, using colors to represent each one.

Activity 2 – Erosion (10 minutes):

Explain erosion and how it affects the land. Discuss wind, water, and glaciers as forces of erosion. Show pictures of how erosion has changed landforms over time, like how rivers create canyons.

Optional: Have students simulate erosion with sand or soil by pouring water to show how land is worn down over time.

Conclusion (5 minutes):

Recap the types of landforms and the role of erosion. Ask students to name some landforms and explain how erosion shapes them.

Assessment:

Evaluate students through class discussion and their ability to identify different landforms and explain erosion.