Lesson Planning

Investigate the importance of the Nile to life in Egypt and make a simulation model with water flowing through a crop of cress seeds.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand how the availability of water (or lack of it) determines the type of land (farmland or desert) and the distribution of the population, with particular reference to Egypt.
• To set up a simulation to investigate the effect of a river flowing through a desert on the growth of crops.

Children will:

• Learn about the importance of the Nile to life in Egypt and answer key questions about it for a display.
• Make a simulation model of Egypt with the River Nile flowing through it, planting cress seeds to simulate crops.