Lesson Two – River Journey
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and describe the journey that a river can make through the landscape when passing special locations and habitats.
The class can identity and list some of the different features that could be seen when making a journey down a river and towards the sea to suggest what makes this body of water special and unique.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and describe the journey that a river can make through the landscape when passing a range of special locations and habitats
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different human and physical features that can be seen along a river and a template to test and record the movement of water through sand to represent the flow of a river in the countryside.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe the journey that a river can make through the landscape as it travels past different habitats and locations.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the different bodies of water that can be found around the world including the plants and animals that live in each habitat. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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