1. Unit 2: Water on the land
(rivers)

3. 1. Water Cycle
• Watch this video here

6. • Your book
• A template
• A stick of glue
• Scissors
• Pencil crayons- blue and
brown
• A pen

7. Cut out the template.
Make sure you cut up the vertical line.

8. Using a brown crayon, shade around
the circumference of the circle.

9. Using a blue crayon, shade the left
triangle, draw some blue lines running
from the top of the triangle and
branching out towards the edge of the
circle.

10. Watershed the area of high land
forming the edge of a river basin.
Source where a river begins.
Mouth where a river meets the sea.
Confluence the point at which two
rivers meet.
Tributary a small river or stream that
joins a larger river.
Channel this is where the river
flows.
Drainage Basin this is the area of
land drained by a river and its
tributaries.
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You will now need a pen. Number the
following features on your template.
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11. Glue the remaining blank triangle.

12. Stick the glued triangle under the
shaded triangle, so it fits neatly.

13. Open your book to a double page. Glue
the triangle and the bottom sides of the
diagram. Stick this firmly across the
cease of the book. The tip of the
triangle should correspond to the
cease.

14. It should look like this!

15. Watershed the area of high land
forming the edge of a river basin.
Source where a river begins.
Mouth where a river meets the sea.
Confluence the point at which two
rivers meet.
Tributary a small river or stream that
joins a larger river.
Channel this is where the river
flows.
Drainage Basin this is the area of
land drained by a river and its
tributaries.
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Give your diagram the title ‘River
Basin’. Provide a date.
Write neatly the numbers and
corresponding definitions into
your book.

16. Close your book!

17. Open your book!

18. If Finished …
• Write a journey of a water droplet!
• Imagine you can take the journey of a
lifetime in either the drainage basin OR in
the water cycle