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Rivers
For river features including waterfalls, ox bow lakes and waterfalls, to investigate flooding and river themes, this topic is a great place to start.
Amazon investgation
Exploring creatures, moving around the river, food by the river etc...
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Effects of flooding
These images record the dramatic events of 2002 when Glossop in Derbyshire was flooded. There are some lovely archived images of the same location during floods in the twentieth century.
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Flooding
Information for upper KS2 to support their understanding of river flooding.
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Focus on Rivers
A fantastic Global eye website which features introductory information, info on the amazon and deltas in Bangladesh.
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Focus on Rivers
Information on the water cycle, how we use water and a water diary are included.
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Gorge formation
Sequence of animations shows how a waterfall creates a gorge.
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Meander formation
Whatch this animation of how a meander is formed.
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River facts
A useful website to support upper KS2, perhaps for a project of their own.
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River support resources
Use this wonderful website from Anglia Campus to follow a river nd investigate many features of the river through text and pictures for KS2.
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River Trent
Information, virtual tour, history, settlement, flooding, conservation and uses. This is a lovely site with text most suited to KS2.
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Rivers information
Information on the Ganges, Nile, Amazon - this wonderful Eloughton website also covers flood, floods, bridges and crossing rivers and data.
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Rivers investigation
For advanced learners this will provide lots to extand their thinking. Catchments, maps, tours and images are an excellent resource from Kented.
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Rivers resources
Pictures of rivers from the world, river features with visual glossary worksheets and lots more from this lovely Kented site.
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Rivers web hunt
A wonderful cyber search from ICTeachers. Ideal for upper KS2. Please check links before use.
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Watch the Thames in tidal flow
Ideal for talking about tides and the seas. There's a fair amount of of rubbish in the water, so could easily be used when talking about river pollution.
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What is a river?
A wonderful BBC resource for KS2 to introduce rivers.
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