2.  Understand different landforms and water forms.  Create a model volcano and compare it to an actual volcano eruption.  Research a landform in the United States and create a presentation to persuade people to go visit. Third grade students will: About 5-7 days

3.  Landforms  Volcanoes  Landform Trip https://sites.google.com/site/landformsproject123/home

4. Landform Trip Presentation Model Volcano Vs. Actual Volcano Comparison chart Group Landform Glossary Landform quiz

6.  Example of difficulty would be for the students to name all of the landforms.  Example of complexity would be having the students compare two landforms and tell me how they are similar and different

7.  Visual –Spatial  Verbal/ Linguistic  Logical/Mathematic al  Interpersonal  Intrapersonal  Bodily – Kinesthetic  Naturalist

8. Abstract – Sequential Concrete – Sequential Abstract - Random Concrete - Random

9. Prime Time 2 – Recency Comparison chart – Model Vs. Actual Volcano Eruption Prime Time 1 – Primacy Videos and reviewing the landform volcano Downtime – practice Creating the model volcano.

10. Sense: Brain Pop - Landforms Meaning: Real World Connections Create Models

11.  Volcanoes and the chunking method. Landforms > volcanoes> eruption

12.  The students emotion of excitement will help the students remember › Volcano eruption › Landforms (Trip) These are both positive emotions that will stimulate the frontal lobes (Sousa, 2011)

13.  The students will have a problem that they need to convince someone to go to a landform in the US.  Problem-based learning boosts motivation. (Sousa, 2011).  They will be creating a volcano rather then just listening to how a volcano erupts.  They will be working on the computer and technology is a motivator.

14. Cerebral Lobes › Frontal Lobes: Figuring out how to convince for the Landform Trip › Temporal Lobes: Communicating with peers, recognizing the landforms › Occipital Lobes: Videos to process › Parietal Lobes: Spatial recognition for the model volcano. Neurons - Connect information

15. Limbic System Thalamus Hypothalamus Hippocampus Amygdala Transferring from Short Term Memory to Long Term