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What landforms and water features around the U.S. make for the best…

- - - - Students break into three groups and are each assigned a different popular vaction location to investigate different common landforms and waterways in that area using a handout with guiding questions
        
        Guiding question:
        Using google Maps to searvh for the following features in your assigned location. If you see one of these features on the Map write down the name its labed as.
        Do you see any near by streams?
        Do you see anything label as a delta?
        How about a feature labes as floodplains?
        Do you see any hills?
        Can you find any nearby mountains/mountain ranges?
        Do you see any valleys?
        Are their any labeled sinkholes?
        Are there near by caves?
        Can you find any canyons?
        Are their any glacial features labeled on the map?
        Can you find any dunes?
        Are there nearby springs?
        Are you able to find any close by volcanoes?
        Lastly can you spot any close by islands?
      - Teacher generates list of places students have traveled to or would like to and picks three to investigate with class
- - - - Each landform or water feature is assigned to a group of students.
        In their group students work with provided pictures and student accessable sources to reasearch their assigned landform or water feature in a vareity of places around the U.S. and work together to answer dicussion questions on their landform.
        
        Students prepare to teach other students about the information they learned about their landform or water feature using the provided discussion questions.
        
        Discussion Quesions:
        What is your assigned landform or water feature?
        Is it a land based feature or a water based feature?
        Draw a picture to represent your landform or characteristic?
        Is it large or smaller in size?
        Is it accessable by foot (do you need a boat, a plane or special gear to get to it)?
        Can it be dangerous to explore this landfeature or waterway?
        What are some definning components or parts of your landform or water feature?
- - - - After each group presents the teacher models writing key takeaways from each presentation down on her hand out to ensure all students are recording the information they need.