Rivers intro (profile and water cycle)

A KS3 lesson looking at rivers - the long profile of a river and the water cycle. The lesson starts by getting pupils to define a river, look at keywords (literacy) such as source and mouth before some pictures. Pupils then describe the long profile of a river adn how depth and other characteristics change. The second part of the lesson goes through the water cycle and the process (pupils can draw and explain this) before thinking about how human and physical factors can alter the water cycle e.g. deforestation.