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Integrating videos and other technology such as QR codes.The students create a 3D landform using salt and flour dough.Having the students make a Mini-Book of the landforms and bodies of water.Using a PowerPoint I created to introduce the landforms and bodies of water and give them basic definitions of each landform and body of water.

My shared reading focuses on the definitions of each landform and body of water.

My read-alouds have been carefully chosen to introduce the vocabulary and general knowledge.

So how do I teach these landforms, bodies of water and basic map skills? Though California has just adopted a new Social Studies/History Framework, the third-grade section continues to state that third graders should study landforms and how these landforms have shaped the history of California. I also use various read-alouds which are very useful for developing the vocabulary. You can read more about how I use this APP HERE. I take pictures of the pages from our Social Studies text ( Reflections) on my iPad and use the PDFexpert app to project them for shared reading. The Social Studies text covers basic landforms found in California (I am in California). I integrate Language Arts with Social Studies by using the Social Studies text as our reading material as well as other passages about landforms and maps. In third grade, it is the first unit I teach. So where do you start to teach Geography? How can you understand animal adaptations if you don’t know about biomes that have different landforms and bodies of water? The answer is: teach geography! Does anyone teach Geography anymore? Why can’t students look at a map and recognize the state they live in? The country they live in? The continent they live on? Do they at least recognize the Planet Earth? Ok, I’m being sarcastic, but we need to teach geography because geographical knowledge among elementary students is sorely lacking!īut why is geographical knowledge important? History and Science! How can you teach or learn about historical events if you don’t have some basic geographical knowledge? Even my seventh-grade son had to review some basic geography on a world map for his History class!