Lately in class we have been creating our own wikis. (Sample below; my draft) For the past three to four days, all of us had to research, write down our sources and info down on a sheet that would help us organize, and also transfer all that info on to a wiki and make up three questions also to put on the wiki. All this was done in class, except for the exception that you could do research and the three questions at home.
Plateaus are not just your everyday landforms. Oh no, they're much bigger than any old hill or river. Some plateaus even have lakes on the top of them!!! You can find some of these breath-taking and eye-popping places such as the Chang Tang in Tibet, or the Andean Altiplano, and also in Guiana (Guyana), Poland, and the Monte Roraima. Some of the plateaus are named after the places they're located in such as the Columbia Plateau and the Colorado Plateau. The Colorado Plateau was is a lava plateau, which simply means that it was built from lava. Western High Plateas are located west of the Rockies. the Appalachian Plateau first came from the Laramide Revolution. The universal definition of a plateau is a large area of flat land that is raised high above sea level OR an area of highland, usually consisting of relatively flat rural area. Basically it means that this landform is raised above the ground of what us humans usually live on. Mesas (smaller than plateaus but similar in shape), rivers (can flow through a plateau), mountains (bigger and pointier than plateaus), erosion (what helps form plateaus), and valleys (what is in between plateaus when grouped together in the same spot)-they all connect to this spectacular form. A miscellaneous fact would be that plateaus are always forming, even when we don't know it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateau
http://www.harpercollege.edu/~mhealy/g101ilec/namer/nad/naphys/naphysfr.htm
Dynamic Earth Textbook
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