Find or take pictures of landforms in your area. If there are not a lot of landforms in your immediate area, branch out to landforms in your state and then in the country. Show your pictures in a PowerPoint presentation. After naming landforms for students, show more pictures of landforms and see if students can identify what type of landform that it is. To make this activity even more fun, set it up like a game show competition for students to identify the landform pictures.
Depending on the number of students in your class, assign each student a landform and have the student become the expert on that particular landform. Students will have to research the landform to find out everything about it. Require your students to make a poster, book, PowerPoint or other presentation about their landform. Set aside a day for students to present their information and teach the class about their particular landform. Students should even write quiz or test questions about their landform.
Have students make landform books. Since there are so many landforms, assign different landforms to each student or you can allow students to choose a certain number of landforms that they would like to include in their book. Landform books should include cut-out pictures or drawings as well as information about each landform. Students can even the illustrations three dimensional. Give students websites they can use for researching or have them check books out of the library.
Creating a model is one of the most useful learning experiences for students. Landform models can be made out of paper mache, clay or regular paper. If you assign every student at least one landform to model, then when they are turned in you will have a large number of models for everyone in class to study. Point out to students the limits of each model and how they are or are not like the real thing.