Picturing Landforms

We're continuing our landforms theme with 'Picturing Landforms 1 - Visualise and draw landforms from a verbal description'.

This activity enhances pupils’ skills of description and interpretation using photographs of landforms.

Related activities can be found in our Geomorphology category in Investigating the Earth.

Identifying and interpreting landforms in the field or from photographs and maps

The new ELI for October is field based - 'Burbage Valley Part 2 - Landforms; identifying and interpreting landforms'.

In this activity, students use a set of photographs to identify a variety of landforms and attempt to explain their origin.

Related activities can be found in Fieldwork and in Geomorphology, both in our Investigating the Earth category.

Collapse of natural dams in mountains

This topic has been on the news quite a lot recently with many people, for example in Nepal, suffering the consequences. This ELI is appropriate 'Dam burst danger; modelling the collapse of a natural dam in the mountains – and the disaster that might follow'.

This activity involves finding out what happens when ice blocks that have been trapped in a model moraine melt to release a ‘lake’ of water.

Related ELIs can be found in 'Floods' in our Natural Hazards category.