Earth Science · Earth's Surface
Landforms & Bodies of Water
Use pictures, simple maps, and models to identify landforms and bodies of water, show where features are located, and distinguish liquid water from solid ice.
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Landforms & Bodies of Water
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Lesson overview
What students will learn
- Identify common landforms and bodies of water from pictures, maps, and models.
- Develop or read a simple map that preserves important shapes and relative locations of land and water.
Key science ideas
- Maps can show where land and water features are located.
- Hills, valleys, plains, and islands are landforms.
- Rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans are bodies of water.
Lesson at a glance
- Grade 2
- 40 min
- ~8 min prep
- 2-ESS2-2 · 2-ESS2-3
- 5 materials
What’s included
- Lesson Plan
- Investigation
- Teacher Slides
- Printable Worksheet
- Teacher Answer Key
- Interactive Activity
- Vocabulary