A river's journey

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Mountains, Rivers and Coasts The Journey of a River

Objectives

Geography

  • Understand and describe key aspects of physical geography including: rivers, mountains and the water cycle.

Art

  • Develop their techniques including their control and their use of materials (collage) with creativity and experimentation.

Lesson Planning

Understand the stages of a river’s journey. Learn about and develop river vocabulary and make an illustrated river words glossary. Start a river journey collage to share your knowledge!

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To understand the nature of a river and how it changes on its journey from source to sea
  • To begin to understand the key features of rivers, the geographical vocabulary and definitions.
  • To work collaboratively, experimenting with paint, textured papers, card and fabrics to create a shared collage background for a display.

Children will:

  • Understand the stages of a river’s journey from source to the sea.
  • Learn the definitions of river vocabulary and make an illustrated glossary.
  • Create a large shared collage background to show the journey of a river.

Provided Resources

  • Rivers
  • Session 2 task sheet
  • River features
  • How to play the river definition game
  • Group sets of the key words and definitions

You Will Need

  • A large sheet of paper the size of your display board
  • A range of collage materials