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This resource helps to introduce the topic, and recap upon previous learning. It looks at rivers in general from the how they alter to land to how they affect people. To enlarge the video click on the tab in the bottom right corner.
Read moreThis movie introduces the topic of water on the land at KS4 level by looking at a variety of issues that pupils will study. To enlarge the movie click on the tab in the bottom right hand corner
Read moreThis flash presentation shows the basic steps of the water cycle. Simply click for the next step each time.
Read moreThis presentation highlights the key elements of the topic and shows how they link together.
Read moreThis presentation shows the different features of a drainage basin.
Read moreThis presentation helps to show pupils the key parts of a drainage basin.
Read moreThis flash presentation outlines the processes of weathering, erosion, transportation and deposition.
Read moreThis worksheet is designed to accompany the two presentations.
Read moreThis presentation looks at the four main methods of river transportation.
Read moreThis animation highlights the difference between vertical and lateral erosion.
Read moreThis presentation compares a river in its upper, middle and lower courses, focussing particularly on the processes that occur.
Read moreThis presentation looks at how a river\\\'s features change from its upper course through to its lower course. Click on any of the highlighted boxes for more information. It includes video footage.
Read moreThis presentation looks at what happens on a river bend. It looks at how an ox bow lake may develop on a meander. Simply click for animations to occur on each slide.
Read moreThis flash animation helps to show pupils what occurs on a meander and how this can eventually lead to the formation of ox bow lakes. It can be enlarged to full screen using the menu at the top of the animation.
Read moreThis presentation demonstrates the formation of meanders, and includes an animation showing the development of a meander into an ox bow lake.
Read moreThis short presentation simply highlights what happen to a stretch of meandering river over time. It will really help learners who struggle to visualise changing landforms with time.
Read moreThis presentation looks at how waterfalls retreat. It includes video footage of a waterfall in Corsica. Simply click on each slide for animations to occur.
Read moreThis flash animation shows how a waterfall retreats, helping pupils to understand this process.
Read moreThis worksheet gets pupils to think about the formation and retreat of waterfalls.
Read moreThis presentation looks at levees and their formation. It includes and animation showing their development.
Read moreThis presentation looks at flooding. It focusses on the physical and human causes, as well as the soft and hard engineering strategies that can be implemented to try and manage flooding.
Read moreThis presentation compares the effects of river flooding in Boscastle and Mozambique.
Read moreThese resources allow the comparison of flooding in the UK in 2007 with flooding in Mozambique in 2000. This movie looks at flooding in the UK. To enlarge the video click on the tab in the bottom right hand corner.
Read moreThese resources allow the comparison of flooding in the UK with flooding in Mozambique. This movie looks at the effects of flooding in Mozambique in the year 2000. To enlarge the video click on the tab in the bottom right hand corner.
Read moreThese resources allow the comparison of flooding in the UK with flooding in Mozambique. This information sheet is designed to provide pupils with infiormation, that they can interpret and use, to write a newspaper article on the UK floods.
Read moreThis presentation looks at two major floods on the River Mississippi, in 1927 and 1993, as well as general information about the Mississippi.
Read moreThese resources allow the comparison of flooding in the UK with flooding in Mozambique. This worksheet gives pupils an opportunity to think about the different ways in which MEDCs and LEDCs are affected by flooding.
Read moreThese resources allow the comparison of flooding in the UK with flooding in Mozambique. This presentation helps pupils to see the success criteria required when producing a newspaper article, in order to write their article on the UK floods.
Read moreThese resources look at the causes and effects of flooding, before looking at how we can prepare for floods. The flooding presentation looks at causes, effects and solutions. Simply click on each slide for the animations.
Read moreThese resources look at the causes and effects of flooding, before looking at how we can prepare for floods. The flood response presentation provides tasks that get pupils thinking about the best possible ways to deal with flooding.
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