Rivers and Streams
Audience: KS2 Geography
Location: Cuffley, Hudnall Park
Description of Activity
- Mapwork to trace catchment area
- Exploration of valley and stream features
- Sketch mapping
- Cross sectional profiling
- Speed of flow calculation
- Erosion, transportation and deposition
- Human impact assessment
- Pollution monitoring using invertebrate indicators
- Exploration of drought and flood
Learning Outcomes
Children will:
- Learn the geographical vocabulary of river systems
- Be able to represent their observations in a sketch map of a river
or stream
- Be able to construct a profile from data collected
- Know how to calculate the speed of flow
- Know how water shapes the landscape
- Understand that a river or stream is a habitat with plant and animal
communities
- Be able to assess the quality of water
- Appreciate how human activity affects a river system
- Be aware of the consequences of drought and flood
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