Western Region: Landforms
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🏞️ From snowcapped peaks to sun-scorched deserts, the Western Region of the United States is home to some of the most extreme and captivating landforms in the country. This engaging geography video for Grade 4 students introduces major features like mountain ranges, volcanoes, valleys, plateaus, rivers, and glaciers. Through stunning visuals and clear narration, students explore how the region’s natural forces have shaped its dramatic landscape.
🌋 Western Region Landforms Video for Kids – From Mountains to Volcanoes
Students will learn how the Rocky Mountains formed, why California’s coastlines are so rugged, and how ancient volcanoes like Mount St. Helens and Mauna Loa continue to influence the land. The video breaks down essential vocabulary like plateau, basin, fault line, and crater, making abstract geography concepts clear and memorable. There’s even a deep dive into Death Valley, the Grand Canyon, and Yosemite’s glacier-carved cliffs.
🌲 This Western Region landforms video for kids also shows how these landforms affect real life — from tourism and farming to wildlife habitats and regional weather patterns. Students will see how elevation, rainfall, and topography influence where people live and how they use the land. It’s a perfect way to blend physical geography with human geography in one accessible classroom-ready lesson.
🧭 Teachers will appreciate how this resource aligns with Grade 4 geography and earth science standards. Whether introducing a new unit, reinforcing key concepts, or offering a virtual field trip across the American West, this video inspires curiosity and builds core knowledge that sticks. It’s ideal for sparking classroom discussion and student exploration.
Worksheets
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Extremes of the West
Land Exploration in the Western Region
Western State Study
Draw A Scene
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Topics Covered In This Video
Volcanoes
Mountain Ranges:
– Rocky Mountains
– Cascade Range
– Coast Ranges
– Sierra Nevada
– Alaskan Ranges
Notable Mountains
Pacific Coastline
Rivers:
– Columbia River
– Snake River
– Willamette River
– Colorado River
Lakes of the Western Region (Crater, Great Salt, Tahoe)
Valleys of the Western Region (Central, Yosemite, Death Valley)
Deserts of the Western Region (Mojave, Great Basin)
Rainforests (temperate vs. tropical)
Geysers & Hot springs
Continental Divide
Tour of each National Park in the West as they relate to landforms:
– 8 National Parks in Alaska (Gates of the Arctic, Kobuk Valley, Denali, Wrangell-St. Elias, Lake Clark, Katmai, Glacier Bay, Kenai Fjords)
– 2 National Parks in Hawai’i (Haleakalā, Hawai’i Volcanoes)
– 3 National Parks in Washington (Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Olympic)
– 1 National Park in Oregon (Crater Lake)
– 1 National Monument in Idaho (Craters of the Moon)
– 1 National Park in Montana (Glacier)
– 4 National Parks in Colorado (Mesa Verde, Great Sand Dunes, Rocky Mountain, Black Canyon of the Gunnison)
– 5 National Parks in Utah (Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Zion)
– 1 National Park in Nevada (Great Basin)
– 9 National Parks in California (Redwood, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Pinnacles, Lassen Volcanic, Death Valley, Channel Islands, Joshua Tree, Yosemite)
Classroom Ideas

Landforms and Bodies of Water
Print out or look at a map of the Region.
Idendify landforms and bodies of water in the Midwest.

Cloze Practice
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Art and Social Studies
Draw a scene from the video you just watched.
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