The document is a lesson plan for a 9th grade geography class. The lesson will last 1 hour and focus on interpreting maps and photographs by learning about relief features and contour patterns. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to define relief, describe 5 relief landforms, draw simple contour patterns representing landforms, and show interest in geography. The lesson will include defining relief, describing major relief features found on maps like ridges, escarpments, plateaus, saddles, passes, gaps, valleys, spurs, plains, and hills, and activities identifying these features from written descriptions and contour patterns.
The document is a lesson plan for a 9th grade geography class. The lesson will last 1 hour and focus on interpreting maps and photographs by learning about relief features and contour patterns. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to define relief, describe 5 relief landforms, draw simple contour patterns representing landforms, and show interest in geography. The lesson will include defining relief, describing major relief features found on maps like ridges, escarpments, plateaus, saddles, passes, gaps, valleys, spurs, plains, and hills, and activities identifying these features from written descriptions and contour patterns.
The document is a lesson plan for a 9th grade geography class. The lesson will last 1 hour and focus on interpreting maps and photographs by learning about relief features and contour patterns. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to define relief, describe 5 relief landforms, draw simple contour patterns representing landforms, and show interest in geography. The lesson will include defining relief, describing major relief features found on maps like ridges, escarpments, plateaus, saddles, passes, gaps, valleys, spurs, plains, and hills, and activities identifying these features from written descriptions and contour patterns.
The document is a lesson plan for a 9th grade geography class. The lesson will last 1 hour and focus on interpreting maps and photographs by learning about relief features and contour patterns. By the end of the lesson, students should be able to define relief, describe 5 relief landforms, draw simple contour patterns representing landforms, and show interest in geography. The lesson will include defining relief, describing major relief features found on maps like ridges, escarpments, plateaus, saddles, passes, gaps, valleys, spurs, plains, and hills, and activities identifying these features from written descriptions and contour patterns.
GRADE: 9 SUBJECT: Geography DATE: September 26- 30, 2022. DURATION: 1 Hour THEME: Spatial Thinking and Analysis: Maps, Photographs and Statistical Diagrams. UNIT TOPIC: Interpreting Maps and Photographs TOPIC: Relief Features and Contour Patterns
ATTAINMENT TARGET(S): Appreciate the importance of maps, photographs and statistical
diagrams to the study of Geography and their importance in everyday life.
OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. Define relief in Geography. 2. Describe at least five relief features found on topographic maps. 3. Draw simple contour patterns to represent the various relief landforms. 4. Show interest in learning Geography
SUMMARY/ACTIVITY SHEET
What is Relief?
In Geography, relief describes elevation, how high or how low to the land is a well as it speaks to the shape of the land. Contours are often used to depict relief features on maps
Major Relief Features found on Maps:
1. Ridge: A long and narrow part of a high area, indicated by a long/elongated central contour 2. Escarpment: a slope that is gentle on one side but steep on the other
3. A Plateau: a flat top hill or mountain. The center of the contour map is big and wide, resembling a ‘table top,’ and the surrounding land steep, depicted by closely spaced contours 4. Saddle or Col: a high pass between two hills or mountains. Notice in the diagram that there is not a complete passage between the two hills; the land between is still elevated, hence the description “high” pass; also described as a horse-shoe.
5. A Pass: is a low path through a highland
6. A Gap: a narrow break between two hills or mountains or in a ridge.
7. Valley: a low-lying area between two highlands through which a river flows. On a map,
the contours for a valley form a V which points to higher ground.
8. Spurs: are finger-line projections of lands which descend towards lower ground. They separate valleys. The V contours in a spur point to lower ground.
Picture of spur Contour pattern for spur and valley
9. Plain: a large low-lying or level area. It is on a map by contours that are far and wide apart.
10. Hills:
i. Conical Hills: a slope that rises gradually towards a central point or peak. The innermost contour is small. They are so called because they are shaped like a cone.
ii. Round-top Hill: a slope that rises gradually towards the center. The innermost contour is comparatively large. This larger central contour tells that the top of the hill
is not pointy.
iii. Isolated Hill: a hill that stands alone or out in an isolated area
ACTIVITY # 1: Fill-in the Blanks
INTRUCTION: Use the following list of words to fill in the blank spaces below:
VALLEY ESCARPMENT PASS GAP ISOLATED HILL
SADDLE SPURS PLATEAU RIDGE PLAIN CONICAL HILL
1. Finger-line projections of lands, indicated by V-shaped contours pointing to lower
ground_____________
2. A vast, flat or level area shown by widely spaced contour lines ______________
3. Steep on one side, gentle on the other _______________
4. Represented by V-shaped contours which point to higher ground _________________
5. A very steep slope with a flat “table” top ________________________
6. Has a horse-shoe shaped _________________
7. A narrow break between two hills, mountains or in a ridge ___________
8. Has a circular contour pattern which shows the land gradually rising towards a central point or peak ____________________
9. A low path through a highland ___________________
10. This feature is represented by an elongated central contour _____________
11. A hill that stands alone _____________
ACTIVITY # 2: Fill-in the Blanks
Study the contour patterns below and name the relief feature each represent. Choose your answers from the list: ESCARPMENT RIDGE CONICAL HILL SADDLE VALLEY PLATEAU ROUND TOP HILL C
