Year 9 · Geography · beta

Rivers: How do rivers shape the land?

This unit teaches pupils about how river processes shape the land and affect our lives. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate downstream changes in rivers and use GIS to analyse flood risk across geographical space. Pupils will also evaluate different methods of flood management.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 6 source lessons. DASKEREL has 13 original lessons for this unit, including 7 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Rivers are flows of fresh water.
  • Rivers flow from higher ground to the sea.
  • Rivers can flood in times of high precipitation.
  • Global warming is caused by the increase in greenhouse gas emissions released by humans.
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can give us information about differences across the world.

Source curriculum references

  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present.
  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to glaciation, hydrology and coasts.
  • Interpret Ordnance Survey maps in the classroom and the field, including using grid references and scale, topographical and other thematic mapping, and aerial and satellite photographs.
  • Use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to view, analyse and interpret places and data.
  • Use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

Oak source metadata. DASKEREL has not independently verified school-level coverage.

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