How a Volcano Can Build an Island, Read and Answer

Build a hill, a valley and an island from sand or play dough before the landform pages. Look at a map together and find one landform and one body of water. Check each page with the answer key.

Read how lava cools into rock until a volcano's top rises as an island like Hawaii, then answer. A volcano is an opening in the ground where hot, melted rock comes out. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 and 5 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 2nd Grade Earth and water, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with landforms. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Hills, valleys, plains, mountains, canyons, islands, peninsulas and sand dunes. A hill is high, rounded land, a valley is low land between hills, and a plain is wide, flat land where farms often sit.

An island has water on all sides, so you need a boat, a plane or a bridge to reach most islands, like the islands of Hawaii. A peninsula has water on three sides and joins bigger land on the fourth, so you can walk or drive onto it. Most of Florida is a peninsula.

Moving water, wind and volcanoes shape land. A river carved the Grand Canyon a little at a time over millions of years, wind piles sand into dunes that slowly move, and lava from many eruptions can pile up into a new island (2-ESS1-1).

Yes. All 9 landform sheets have an answer key.