Lesson 1- Unit 2 - River System

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Unit 2 - Rivers

Today's Lesson 

To do

• Homework check: worksheet 'longest rivers' 
• Read page 8/9 together
• Video plus questions: river system
• Notes: river systems
• Homework: worksheet river system

Goals 

By the end of this lesson:

• you know there are always three parts of a river
• you can locate the source and the mouth of a river
• you know the golden rules for river systems

Homework check

Did you practice TOPO?!

Today's Lesson 

Let's read page 8/9

Notes: Three courses of a river

Upper course - source, waterfall, fast  flowing water, narrow(smal) parts, boulders.

Middle course

wider part, slower flow, 

tributaries (vertakkingen),

small rocks.

Lower course

widest part, flat area,

slowest flow, mouth,

shingle, sand, clay.

Homework:

1. Make an introduction page-> title: Rivers and make a word cloud about 'rivers' (ten words) 

2. Fill in the worksheet: river systems

3. Put the picture and table on your introduction page

00:39

1. What term do we use for the
place where a river starts?

01:01

What do we call the
highest part of a river?

Homework:

1. Make an introduction page-> title: Rivers and make a word cloud about 'rivers' (ten words)

2. Fill in the worksheet: river systems

3. Put the picture and table on your introduction page

4. Choose upper course, middle course or lower course and use the words/sentences in the table to write a text (minimum 5 sentences) about one of them.

Homework:

1. Make an introduction page-> title: Rivers and make a word cloud about 'rivers' (ten words)

2. Fill in the worksheet: river systems

3. Put the picture and table on your introduction page

4. Use the words/sentences in the table to write different texts about all three parts of a river (5 sentences per course)

01:15

Does the water flow fast
or slow in this part of the river?

01:40

Does the water flow faster or
slower in the middle course?

01:51

When a river starts curving
to the left and the right, we call this.....

02:04

Smaller rivers that join bigger rivers are called.....

02:33

The end of a river that ends up
into the sea or ocean is called the ......