This book teaches students about the different shapes of land on Earth—mountains, volcanoes, coasts, valleys, islands, caves, and canyons. For their own books, suggestions for research will begin with the landforms around the children's homes and schools or ones they have visited. Writing their own landform book will offer students some fascinating creative opportunities to take their own photographs, paint various landforms themselves, or find paintings by landscape artists. Children will also learn how to research and write instructions for activities to add to their books, such as how to make a volcano.