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This beautifully illustrated poster contains water color images highlighting various New England Landforms types such as: valleys, mountains, hills, cliffs, ponds, waterways, lakes, rivers, and flood plains. Use it as a visual aid to help your students connect local geography, where to find natural resources, and how weather like rain, and ice can impact an area. It supports Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) about observing and representing the Earth’s surface; Common Core English Language Arts (CC ELA) by encouraging students to interpret visual information; and College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards about geography require students to describe and explainthe influence of physical systems on humans and settlements . See standards alignment below.
Standards Alignment
NGSS: 2-ESS2-2, 4-ESS2-2, 4-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-2, HS-ESS2-2
CC ELA: RI.4.7, RST.6-8.9, SL.8.5, RST.11-12.9,
C3 Framework: D2.Geo.3.K-2, D2.Geo.6.6-8, D2.Geo.4.9-12
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