Understanding of Landforms - Activities

NC Standard:  2.01, 2.02


Activity:  How Water Changes Landforms

Question: How does water change landforms?

Vocabulary: landforms

Materials:
stream table
sand
2 lengths of plastic tubing
2 plastic pails
3 wood blocks
water


Procedure:

  • 1.  Place the stream table on a classroom table. Put the stream-table support under the back end of the stream table.
  • 2.  Fill the stream table with sand.
  • 3.  Using two fingers, make a path, or channel, down the middle of the sand.
  • 4.  Connect one end of one length of tubing to the front of the stream table. Let the other end of the tubing hang over the edge of the table and place an empty pail on the floor under the end of the tubing.
  • 5.  Place the other pail higher than the stream table and fill it ¾ full of water.
  • 6.  Put the second length of tubing into this pail, and fill it with water.
  • 7.  Start the water flowing through the tube from the pail to the stream table by lowering one end of the filled tube.

Observations:

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Conclusions:
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Further Questions:  What Changes did the water make to the sand in the stream table?


Line of Learning:  This line is drawn to provide students with a space to share their experimental learning in words or pictures.
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