👩‍🏫 Teacher’s Guide

Objective
Students will identify mountain features and describe how mountains are formed.

Vocabulary
mountain, peak, valley, elevation

Teaching Notes

• Use photos or video clips of mountains and caves to introduce the lesson.
• Model your thinking about landforms, rock layers, and how animals survive.
• Encourage students to compare mountains and caves using charts.
• Reinforce vocabulary with gestures, drawings, and examples.

🧒 Student Worksheet

Concept and Helping Material

Main Idea
Mountains are tall landforms created by movements of Earth’s crust or by volcanic activity.

Vocabulary and Definition

• — a very tall landform
• — the pointed top of a mountain
• — a low area between mountains
• — height above sea level

Words to Learn

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Sentences to Fill In

1. A ________ is a very tall landform.
2. The top of a mountain is called the ________.
3. A ________ is the low land between mountains.
4. ________ means how high something is above sea level.
5. One famous mountain I know is ________ because ________.

Think & Respond Q&A

1. How are mountains formed?
2. What weather might you find on tall mountains?
3. Why do fewer plants grow at high elevations?
4. Why do hikers follow marked trails?
5. What would you notice from a mountain peak?

Hands-On Experiment or Activities

What You Need: modeling clay or paper.
What You Do:

1. Shape a simple mountain model.
2. Add a peak and a valley.
3. Label elevation changes.
   Think and Talk:

• Why is the peak the coldest part?

Reflection

• What did you learn about mountains?
• What mountain would you like to visit?