Teach Our World: A Child's First Picture Atlas By National Geographic

Before You Start
Refer to the Recommended Order of Instruction provided in the Overview on page 6 of Unit 3 for guidance on the sequence of learning plans. The below learning plans and writing companion document should be completed prior to beginning the Cornerstone for necessary background knowledge building.
● Teach Our World: A Child’s First Picture Atlas by National Geographic
○ Provides background knowledge of landforms on various continents in the world.

● Teach Grade 2 Unit 4 The Earth: Geology Unit
○ Provides students with an opportunity to build their knowledge about various landforms and their locations, landforms formation process and changes overtimes, as well as how landforms affect people’s lives.

● Read Aloud chapters 1-3

Use the following questions/statements with students to guide their thinking.
○ Ask Questions
■ What is the problem you are trying to solve or the requirements of the assignment?

● Students should identify the requirements of the assignment is to create a model landform that shows how the landform was formed, its changes, and how it affects living things in their environment through the use of text features and modeling dough.
■ What do you need to get started?
● The class will review research collected during the unit to identify a landform they want to create and model with modeling dough providing information on the landform’s formation process, changes, and how it affects living things in their environment
■ How does this connect to what you already know?

● Students have conducted research on various landforms, their formation process, and how landforms can affect the lives of people. Conducting additional research students will identify how living things interact with landforms in order to make connections to how landforms affect living things in their environment.

■ Read, or view, about the

How was the landform formed...what kinds of changes have occurred to the landform overtime? How has the landform affected living things and its environment?, etc.)
● Depending on the needs of your students you may consider providing your students with a list of research questions.

■ The teacher will explain to students that they will be researching a landform, its formation process, and how landforms can affect living things in their environment to create a model landform with modeling dough providing information about the landform through the use of text features.
I can do a shared research project to help me learn more about a topic (W.2.7)

Independent Student Practice:
● Students should review their prior research on landforms and begin to compile a list of landforms, their formation process, and how they can affect living things in their environment using their Gr 2 Unit 4 CS Landform Organizer II.
○ Provide students with a selection of unit texts, content-related library books, and additional print and digital resources in order for them to select a landform to model.

I can participate in collaborative conversations with my peers.