LANDFORM HALL OF FAME PROJECT
Each student will submit a Hall of Fame nomination presentation using your Google
account. Each team member must nominate a different landform. When the
nomination is complete, the team member will electronically share it with the
elected “team captain.” The captain will combine the presentations and share it
with the teacher by the due date.
Landforms and features you can select include: streams, deltas, floodplains, hills,
mountains/mountain ranges, plateau, mesa, valleys, fiords, bays, capes, sinkholes,
caves, canyons, glacial features, dunes, springs, volcanoes and islands.
Preapproved Famous Landforms/features:
Mount St. Helens
Paricutin Volcano
Hawaiian Islands
Crater Lake
Yellowstone
National park-Old
Faithful Geyser Prismatic Hot
Springs;
Grand Tetons
Mount Everest
Mount McKinley
Sierra Nevada Mts.
The Andes
Mountains
Matterhorn
Devil’s Postpile
Great Plains
Allegheny Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Yosemite Valley Sideling
Hill, Hancock, MD
Badlands SD
Rainbow Bridge Navajo
Mountain, UT
The Giant’s Causeway
Antrim, Northern Ireland
Loch Ness Scottish
Highlands, Scotland
White Cliffs Kent
County UK Harbor of
Rio de Janeiro
Geirangerfjord,
Norway
Columbia River
Gorge
Santorin Cyclades
Islands, Greece
Red Sea
Mammoth Cave, KY
Karst Formation Li
River, China
12 Apostles Victoria,
Australia
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
The Great Lakes;
Lake Superior
Swiss/Italian border,
Europe
Google account: first_last@students.plsd.us
Information Sources
Print media- Library books, textbook
Digital Media - Websites
Jason Project
http://www.infohio.org/ ….go to World Book Kids
http://worldlandforms.com/
http://www.fofweb.com/Science/default.asp
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/types_of_land_2/mesa1.html
http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/landforms.htm
http://www.nps.gov/findapark/index.htm
Cape Cod
Barrier Island (Hilton Head)
Florida peninsula
Mexico's Yucatán
Peninsula
Sleeping Bear Dunes, MI
Grand Canyon
Bryce Canyon
Daisetta Sinkhole, TX
San Francisco Bay, CA
Nile Delta
Mississippi Delta
Mid Atlantic Ridge
Ring of Fire
TIPS:
For photos - go to Insert…image. Then click search at the bottom. Select and it will
go to your presentation.
If you need other photos use, Google Images by typing in the Google search box
click on Images.
To add text -click on the T at the top and type
Be sure to check spelling, change font, size and color after you have things to put
down on slides.
Go to Slide (at the top) to insert new slide, change background color or change
layout.
Remember you can’t copy exact words without giving credit to the source. List the
website or author.
Required information (You may copy and paste.)
 Title of landform
 Image/photo
 Location
 Formed by*
 Defining characteristics and interesting facts
 Information sources
*Be sure to connect the processes that must occur to the result in the landform, or feature. The
different processes that continually build up or tear down the surface of Earth can include erosion,
deposition, volcanic activity, earthquakes, glacial movement and weathering.