Geography

Glacial Landforms
Grade 6; Geography class

Goals to achieve:

• To revise previous knowledge about glaciers

• To be able to recognize glacial landforms 

• To learn key words related to landforms

• To revise new terms and landforms

Lesson rules

• If you see this penguin it means you need to take note of the information on that slide.

• Some of you have colored circles on your desks. Students with blue circles are going to be the Language Buddies for students with Green circles.

• Language bodies are the only ones allowed to use google translator to help

• Others cannot exit their presentation tab

Introducing changing Globe

As you probably know by now, our planet - Earth was constantly changing for billion of years now. Glaciers are part of these changes as well.
Let's use this interactive globe and track the changes of your hometown.

• https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#430

World map during the ice age

Modern times world map

Class discussion: Find 3 differences between these maps below

Open Ended

What is a glacier?

Glacial landforms are formed as a result of the erosion and deposition process.

​erosion is when materials get removed

​deposition is when materials get build up

Word Cloud

What kind of landforms do you know?

Pronounced as gley-shuhl troff

Glacial troughs

Pronounced as kor-ee

​​Corries

Pronounced as
ah-ret

Arête

Pronounced as
pih-rah-mid-el peek

Pyramidal peak

This lesson we will learn about these landforms :

• Glacial troughs (or valleys) are formed when ice occupies a V shape river valley, expands it and makes it wider turning into a U shape valley.

1. Glacial troughs

Imagine a big scoop of ice cream as a glacier.

if you start eating the ice cream from the middle you will create a trough (valley) in the middle, a glacier moving down a mountain can carve out a similar shape in the land, making a valley called a glacial trough.

Simple version

1. Corries form when ice stays on a mountain side like a big snowball

2. After a long time it erodes and deepens the area

3. Later it melts creating a lake

2. Corries

​1.

​2.

​3.

Aréte is a border line between two corries on the same mountain.
Pyramidal peak is the top of the mountain.

3. Aréte

4. Pyramidal peak

Guess the country

Rules: you will see a few clues about one country. Use them to find the correct name of the secret country.

Multiple Choice

Guess this country

• the USA

• Australia

• Japan

• Poland

Multiple Choice

Guess this country

• Canada

• Germany

• Japan

• India

Multiple Choice

Guess this country

• Egypt

• Kazakhstan

• Brazil

• India