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**In our land form science unit, students will be expected to know this vocabulary. We will do this in increments of vocabulary that will be used during labs. Eventually, all vocabulary will need to be defined. Students have this list and the vocabulary we will use first is circled on their papers**
 * __Land Form Vocabulary__**


 * Landform Vocabulary **


 * 1) ** Abrasion **
 * 2) ** Alluvial fan **
 * 3) ** Ariel **
 * 4) ** Ariel photograph **
 * 5) ** Bar scale **
 * 6) ** Benchmark **
 * 7) ** Boundary **
 * 8) ** Canyon **
 * 9) ** Cartographer **
 * 10) ** Condensation **
 * 11) ** Contour Intervals **
 * 12) ** Contour Line **
 * 13) ** dam **
 * 14) ** Delta **
 * 15) ** Deposition **
 * 16) ** Drainage basin **
 * 17) ** Elevation **
 * 18) ** Erosion **
 * 19) ** Evaporation **
 * 20) ** Flash flood **
 * 21) ** Flood **
 * 22) ** Flood plain **
 * 23) ** Gravity **
 * 24) ** Grid **
 * 25) ** Intermittent **
 * 26) ** Stream **
 * 27) ** Key **
 * 28) ** Landform **
 * 29) ** Levee **
 * 30) ** Map **
 * 31) ** Meander **
 * 32) ** Model **
 * 33) ** Mouth **
 * 34) ** Peak **
 * 35) ** Sea level **
 * 36) ** Perennial stream **
 * 37) ** Plateau **
 * 38) ** Precipitation **
 * 39) ** Profile **
 * 40) ** Run Off **
 * 41) ** Scale **
 * 42) ** Sediment **
 * 43) ** Slope **
 * 44) ** Structure **
 * 45) ** Surveyor **
 * 46) ** Symbol **
 * 47) ** Topographic map **
 * 48) ** Tributaries **
 * 49) ** Valley **
 * 50) ** Mountain Peak **
 * 51) ** Weathering **
 * 52) ** Estuary **
 * 53) ** Drainage Net **
 * 54) ** Mountain **
 * 55) ** Dune **
 * 56) ** Plain **
 * 57) ** Beach **
 * 58) ** Mountain Base **

**If you are interested in making play dough the recipe is listed below. We need any hue of blue or green. Thank you!!!**

**Playdough**

**1 cup flour**

**l cup water**

**1/2 cup salt**

**2 teaspoons cream of tartar**

**1 tablespoon cooking oil**

**food coloring**

**Mix dry ingredients. Add others. Cook over medium heat until dough pulls away from sides of pan (3 minutes). Cool. Knead with palm of hands. Place in air tight freezer bag.**

On Valentine's Day we will have a Poetry Reading. Students will read a published poem as well as a poem they have written. They will be scored on fluency, voice tone, posture and voice inflections. The original poem will be scored based on content and if it followed a particular pattern of poem definition. The students will be given a rubric on February 8 as a guideline.

We will soon be in our unit on landforms in science and social studies. We needs lots and lots of play dough. We need greens and blues and well as tans. We will be modeling landforms as well as North America.

We will be using playdough for many projects throughout the year. If you are interested in making playdough for the class, please see the recipe below. The first colors we will need are; black, brown, tan, gray

If you are interested in making play dough the recipe is listed below. We need any color. Thank you!!!

Playdough

1 cup flour l cup water 1/2 cup salt 2 teaspoons cream of tartar 1 tablespoon cooking oil food coloring

Mix dry ingredients. Add others. Cook over medium heat until dough pulls away from sides of pan (3 minutes). Cool. Knead with palm of hands. Place in air tight freezer bag.