Changing Characteristics of Rivers - Long and Cross Profile

For teaching Rivers AQA Specification but can also be used to teach core knowledge of Rivers at KS3.
Learning Objective: To learn how a river transforms from source to mouth.
This lesson has a focus on the River Tees but this can be easily adapted to suit any case study.
Pupils will compare the three courses of a river through the use of a video and images.
Pupils will then learn the difference between a long profile and a cross profile and will be able to draw out a full long profile with annotations of what the characteristics are like at each course.