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GeographyYears 8, 9About 5 sessions (estimate, no timer)A parent checks the finished piece
The River Rescue Lab
Explain what happens to water from the moment rain falls on a hillside to the moment it reaches the sea.
What you'll make
A paper catchment model or tray demonstration, a data comparison and a cause-and-effect flood explanation.
What you'll learn
- The drainage basin: watershed, source, tributary, confluence, mouth
- Inputs, stores, flows and outputs
- Erosion, transport and deposition in rivers
- Physical and human factors affecting flooding
You'll need
Paper, card, pens; or a tray, soil and a watering can with an adult · No river visit or storm outing needed
Real data must show who published it and its date. Invented teaching data is labelled INVENTED. Never make up numbers about a real place.
Curriculum links
- Understand rivers, coasts and glaciation and the physical processes that give rise to landscapes, and how they change over time
- Interpret and analyse a range of quantitative and qualitative data, including statistical data on trends and relationships between geographical phenomena
- Understand how human and physical processes interact to influence, and be influenced by, climate change
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