I chose to base my virtual tour on 5th Grade science Standard 2 which says that "Students will understand that volcanoes, earthquakes, uplift, weathering, and erosion reshape Earth's surface." This virtual tour will help teach the students about 4 different kinds of landforms that are results of volcanoes, earthquakes, uplift, weathering and erosion. They will have links to videos, pictures and articles that will help them learn. The will also see where some real life landforms exist on the map.

I chose to do my virtual tour on this topic because different landforms can be seen all over the Earth's surface. Using google earth to see some of these landdforms could be very effective in helping students to understand. I would be able to demonstrate the concept by showing the students rather than just telling them. Several different representations are used in this virtual tour. These different representaions will help the students to understand not only the concept of what I am teaching but also visualize and internalize the concept.

Location	Activity Description	Google Earth Content
1.North Island Volcanic Plateau	Read the short article and look at the picture provided. Draw a picture of a plateau and list defining feature that it has.	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Rangipo.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau
2.The Matterhorn	Watch both videos and look at the picture. Explain in your learning journal in your own words how mountains are formed.	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Mountain.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngV66m00UvU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzt_EBD3DDQ&feature=related
3.Grand Canyon	Watch the video about the Grand Canyon. Write in your journal how a canyon and mountains are different.	http://www.hikingtripreports.com/images/grand-canyon.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktf73HNZZGY
4.Great Rift Valley	Look at the picture of a valley and read the attached article. After seeing these 4 land forms, mold a sample of each with clay and give a short description of how each of them were formed.	http://img6.travelblog.org/Photos/50784/276534/t/2447772-Great-Rift-Valley-0.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley