Build Academic Vocabulary with a Landform Lesson

Identifying landforms is an essential educational concept that every student should practice. Looking at maps and watching slideshows is great, but young learners need to get their hands on materials to really internalize the content.  This landform matching activity was designed to help students practice identifying the different types of natural landforms on Earth using images and verbal descriptions.  Your Social Studies and geography lessons are sure to be engaging when using this fun vocabulary game.

The significant landforms referenced in this activity are

• mountain
• peninsula
• river
• plain 
• plateau 
• canyon 
• island 
• valley 
• lake 
• sea 

To use, students will lay out the cards and try to match the descriptions to the pictures. 

Easily Download & Print

Use the dropdown on the Download button to download the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource.

Additionally, project the cards onto a screen and work through them as a class by having students record their answers in their notebooks. 

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and a Teach Starter collaborator.

Don’t stop there! We’ve got more activities to shorten your lesson planning time:  

[resource:4829016]   [resource:4808699]   [resource:4680264]