Lesson Plan
Don’t Plateau in Geography!
Your students’ understanding will reach its peak when they ask detail-seeking questions from observations made about plateaus, mesas, canyons, and buttes. Students will use illustrations and text to assist in their questions and answers.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to gather information in order to ask and answer questions about geographical illustrations and text regarding canyons, buttes, plateaus, and mesas.
Introduction
(8 minutes)- Display the What’s Wrong in this Picture? worksheet with a document reader.
- Model gathering details from the picture (e.g. airport, airplanes, passengers), then discuss what students think about the picture (e.g. it’s an airport, it’s sunny because some people are wearing hats).
- Chat about things they wonder about the picture (e.g. is it the fall/spring because of their attire; is the picture a joke because of the unrealistic situations of the animals).
- Explain to students they will ask and answer questions about a more realistic picture of four different landforms.