Rivers resources

For this practical task students investigate and report on what they noticed about a model river and how different sized materials are moved by the water.

Task: Students play a tag game that simulates the relationships between elements within a waterway and discuss how different scenarios impact on the populations living there. Assessment focus: changes within a habitat affect everything living there.

This practical task assesses students' ability to design and carry out a fair test on the relationship between slope and rates of erosion.

This resource assesses students' understanding of erosion. Students order a set of diagrams showing the process of erosion in a river and write an explanation of how cliff erosion occurs by the sea.

In this task students compare two photographs of a river with normal flow and a river in flood. They make inferences based on their observations.