Lesson Planning
Discover how mountain ranges are formed and begin to understand the composition of the earth.
Teaching Outcomes:
- To begin to understand how the mountain ranges of the world were formed
- To understand the composition of the earth: crust, mantle and core.
Children will:
- Understand that mountains are formed in a number of ways.
- Know that the Earth’s crust is made of plates.
- Begin to consider how the land on the Earth has changed over time.
- Understand that volcanoes are a type of mountain & study how they are formed.
- Begin to understand the composition of the earth – crust, mantle & core..