Hello everyone,
Sorry for no blog for awhile, I have been in Italy for 3 weeks. Climbed up Mount Vesuvius (very cool), should have done Volcanoes really got some great pictures.
But anyway, I'm now back to look at different ways you could teach glaciation.
Teaching Glacial landforms
This is an interesting technique which I found on a website, it would work well as a finishing activity to do for a lower school KS3 lesson. It helps students remember some key landforms from glacial erosion.
The activity is a physical activity, which gets students to do different actions for each landforms, the activity is known as 'Kung-fu Glaciation', here is some of the actions:
- Funky snowflake: Jump up and down pretending to be fluttering downwards.
- Ice: Jump into position as if on a snowboard and shout "ice"
- Basal slippage: Wiggle your hips in a circular motion.
- Corrie: Make a cutting action across your body with a cupped hand.
- Arête: Make a cutting action downwards.
- Pyramidal peak: Thrust your arm in the air.
For example: Snow falls and compacts to form ice. The ice erodes the rock by basal slippage to create a corrie. Two corries together form an arête, and three corries together form a pyramidal peak!
This activity would be useful during a morning lesson to waken the students up to the lesson. It also appeals to different styles of learning such as Visual and Kinesthetic learners. By seeing actions and doing different actions names of landforms are more likely to stick in the students heads.
On the website there is a power point presentation looking over different landforms, and a link to a Glacial sort card, which requires students to match landforms with their definition:
