More About Landforms - Learn How Natural and Human-Made Landforms Form
From Miacademy Learning Channel · 2025
5 min1st2nd3rdSocial Studies
Summary
This lesson explores landforms — the natural shapes of the land like mountains, valleys, and rivers — and how some features, like bridges, dams, and canals, are human-made instead. Kids learn to spot the difference and see how people change the land around them.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Use these after watching to talk through the social studies idea in the video.
- What is a landform? Name one natural landform you have seen.
- What is the difference between a natural landform and a human-made one?
- Why do people build things like bridges, dams, or canals?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: landform, natural, human-made, mountain, valley.
Try it: List two natural landforms and one human-made landform near where you live. Then draw one of them.