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Metals in many forms are essential to modern life. Students will write a journal entry describing how several metals, each with a different property common to metals, are necessary to their way of life. Students should begin the journal entry with an introductory paragraph about the properties of metals, then write a paragraph for each of at least four different metals, in which they explain the specific property of that metal and how that property makes that metal useful to modern life.

Students will imagine that they are in a window seat on a cross-county airplane trip. In letter format, they will describe the landforms, using real names, that they see along the way. They must use terminology that we have learned in this section, such as plain, plateau and mountain. They must choose a point to point route from and to a specfic city. They will draw and label a specific landform on the reverse side.