Topographic maps show contour lines, which represent points of equal elevation. Topo maps use symbols and color to represent landforms. Cartographers use aerial photographs as one tool in constructing topographic mps. Landform maps can be generated from aerial photographs. Students understand the processes of scientific investigation and design, conduct, communicate about, and evaluate such investigations.
Students know and understand common properties, forms, and changes in matter and energy.
Students know and understand the processes and interactions of earth's systems and the structure and the dynamics of earth and other objects in space. Students know and understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world. Students understand that science involves a particular way of knowing and understand common connections among scientific disciplines. The Landforms kit contains a set of assessments which can be used to monitor learning during or at the end of the module. Using the assessments to monitor students over the course of the instruction will provide a record of individual progress as well as the overall progress of the class.