Grade 5: Week of Jan. 31st to Feb. 4th

Students are very excited about creating their landform models. Thank you for your monetary donations and donations of clay. Once students have completed their models, we will join them together and students may see how landforms connect across regions. Students will see how rivers begin high in the mountains, flow down to meander in the plains and then deposit their sediment in the deltas and in the ocean. Completed landforms are due on Wednesday. We will then move on to aerial and contour mapping and will do student inquiries examining satellite photographs of Mount Shasta. Students will interpret Mount Shasta's contour lines and students will plot its elevation using a graph. Students will tentatively take the landforms test on Wednesday.