Adventures in Time and Place

Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 4: Regions
Infographic #13: Land and Water of the West
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1. Visit the hottest, driest place in North America. Explore amazing canyons, sand dunes, volcanic craters, and more! Take a virtual tour of California’s Death Valley National Park.
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/grd/usgsnps/deva/deva1.html

Click Virtual Field Trip.
Scroll down to "Death Valley Today" and click Badwater.
See and read about the amazing landscape! Then click the Back arrow.
Explore Death Valley Dunes, Racetrack Playa, Ubehebe Crater, and other landforms in the same way.
Click Image Gallery at the bottom of the page to see more sights.

Online Activity: Death Valley Travel Guide
Make a Death Valley travel guide. Select four landforms from the Web site. For each landform, write a short paragraph describing its features and explaining why it is special. Tell why a person might want to visit it.

Landform Name:

2. Volcanoes are fascinating landforms that can be both beautiful and destructive. Discover their explosive power at Hawaii’s Volcanoes.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_tour/hawaii/hawaii_pgs.html

Click First Page. Click a photograph to enlarge it. How would you describe this scene?
Click the Back arrow and look at the other pictures in the same way.
Return to the main page and click Third Page. Explore these pictures.
If you have time, return to the main page and click other pages to see more pictures.

Offline Activity: Volcano Adventure
Choose one volcano picture. Pretend that you are actually there and write an eyewitness report. Describe what you are seeing, hearing, and feeling. Then perform your report for the class. Be sure to show your emotions! Are you excited? Afraid? Startled?