River Volga's Waterfalls - KS3 (Key Stage 3)

Students will be able to recap the key terms of biomes, their components and the location of the taiga from previous lessons on their whiteboards as a starter.
Then students will be given guided reading homelearning (included) to cement their knowledge. Students then will recap previous terms of rivers, and the courses of the river. Then students will locate the river volga globally and use 4-6 figure grid reference to establish geography skills. Finally students will create a story board on the steps of waterfall formation and a quick quiz on what they learnt.

Starter: Knowledge Retention of previous learning
Task 1:Recap the key geographical terms for rivers
Task 2: Describe the location off the river Volga
Task 3: Identify the 4-6 figure grid references to certain features along the river
Task 4: Main Task: Create a comic strip about how a waterfalls forms using key geographical terms.
Task 5: Plenary: Recap of key questions from today

Lesson contains one powerpoint and one worksheet and home learning guided reading.