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A river wordsearch based on the top 20 longest rivers in the British Isles.

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Learn the location of the World's major rivers

In this activity, the pupils have to use an atlas or an online mapping software like Google Earth to identify the 15 longest rivers in the World on the map. The pupils develop their locational knowledge of rivers and for an extension activity, the pupils can list the seas and oceans that each river flows into. The answers are provided on page two of the PDF. 

Where are the major rivers of the British Isles?

Here the pupils have to identify the correct location of the longest rivers in the British Isles. One good method our students used to locate the correct location of these rivers was to use Google images and type in searches like 'River Nene map'. There are notes to the teachers on the last page of the Answers sheet.

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River flashcards

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river words above.

Free downloadable worksheets - Rivers

These rivers worksheets are all taken from the Channel 4 Learning website and a click on the image will take you straight to their website.

A river system

When it rains

A river map

More free River worksheets

These rivers worksheets are provided by Wayland publishing and are designed to go with a rivers book which they also sell. You can visit their website here to find out more. We haven't seen the book but we like their free worksheets, hence us sharing them here with you. 

Parts of a river

River safety

Leisure activity

Fun activities to help with learning river vocabulary

This is a great topic starter. It asks you to build a word bank of river words that you know already and helps the teacher assess how much pupils know already.

This activity helps you to become more familiar with and better at spelling the various river words you will encounter when learning about the geography topic of rivers.

This version is slightly easier in that it has the missing words written around the edge. 

This activity makes for a good homework or can be completed on tablet PCs.

River Facts comprehension

With the information needed for this activity listed online, this activity is perfect for pupils to complete using tablet computers to access the information or by going online using desktop PCs. This can be completed both in school or at home.

In this activity, the pupils are asked to investigate basic facts about major rivers of the world, including their names and uses.

They also create labelled diagrams to illustrate different river features. For all the information on river facts needed to complete this activity, go to our web page:

https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/river-facts

Formation of a waterfall worksheet

In this activity, we look at a river feature - waterfalls, and we describe how the waterfall is formed using the illustrations as a guide. The illustrations are clear and there is plenty of room to annotate the diagrams. To assist in writing good descriptions, a list of useful vocabulary is included. 

To help complete this activity, go to our webpage:

http://www.3dgeography.co.uk/#!river-waterfalls/c1jyi

Free downloadable worksheets 

These rivers worksheets are provided with the idea that you use their website to help complete them. There website can be found by clicking on the image. 

A river wordsearch

A rivers quiz

River video learning exercise 

This is a great lesson to do using either tablet PCs or computers. You watch 12 short video clips on rivers that are all found on our river videos web page . The videos take 38 minutes in total and after watching them, you record what you have learnt on this rivers activity sheet. The worksheet comes complete with teacher notes. 

Ideas for extending the learning.

Can you identify rivers and other landscape features on a map? 

Contour Quiz 1

Match the following contour pattern with the landscape feature. See  this website for further details.

Contour Quiz 2 

Match the contour pattern with the cross section of the same feature. See this website for more details.

Can you make a field sketch of a river? 

Make a field sketch

Using this sketch as an example, can you make a sketch of a V-shaped valley?

Can you recognise a landscape feature on a map?  

​​ Having learnt what the features of rivers are and how they are made, the next step is to be able to identify them on maps. For example, what would a river look like on these Ordnance Survey maps?

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These colorful and child friendly activities help you to teach all about the topic of rivers. Aimed at 10-13 year olds, it has activities which look at: * Rivers comprehension * A-Z rivers * Rivers glossary * Identifying different river features * Locating river features in the lower, middle or upper course of a river, * Seeing where major rivers are located * Knowing how waterfalls are formed through the use of labelled diagrams, * Building a pop up river basin (template included), * The water cycle * River pollution * and a topic self-assessment

Geography sheets - Rivers. These geography worksheets are all based on the topic of rivers and they are all free to download, print and use. For more information, you can click on the image and it will take you to the website it came from.  We have also included some river worksheets we created ourselves. They offer great support when learning about the Geography topic of rivers.

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What is a river?

A river is the path that water takes as it flows downhill towards the ocean. Rivers can be long or short, wide or narrow and they often join together on their way downstream to make bigger rivers. Lots of animals live in or by rivers and people often find them a good place to live too.

Rivers can be used for lots of good things, like sailing boats on them to trade goods with other towns on the river, and farming on land that has been made fertile by the river, but when there are heavy rains and the river is very full they can be dangerous; rivers do a lot of damage when they flood.

Top 10 facts

• Rivers carry rainwater from hills downhill to other rivers, lakes or the ocean.
• The start of a river is called the source and the end is called the mouth.
• Many rivers and streams will join together before they reach the mouth of the river. The smaller rivers and streams are called tributaries .
• A fast flowing river will carry soil and dirt from its banks and bed downstream and drop them when it gets wider and slows down.
• When there is too much water in a river it floods and covers the area around it water. Sometimes this water is a deep as person or a house is tall.
• Floods cause a lot of damage but they also deposit nutrients from the water on the flooded land. This makes land that floods good for farming on.
• Rivers can be difficult and dangerous to cross. Towns often grow up where there are bridges or safe places to walk across.
• The longest river in the world is the Nile in Africa. It is 4,130 miles long.
• The longest rivers in Britain are the Severn (220 miles long) and the Thames (215 miles long).
• The river that carries the most water in the world is the Amazon in South America. The Amazon carries 210,000 cubic metres of water into the sea every second.

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• Water always flows downhill. When rain falls, it runs down the sides of hills into rivers in the bottom of the valleys between the hills. Rain and rivers are part of the water cycle.
• When it rains some of the water is absorbed into the soil and helps plants to grow, some of the water sinks deep into the ground and some of it flows into rivers and down to the sea.
• The end of a river is called the mouth. Some rivers flow into the sea but other rivers flow into lakes or bigger rivers.
• The start of a river is called the source. The source of a river is the furthest point on the river from its mouth.
• Many rivers are formed when rain flows down from hills but sometimes the source is a lake, sometimes it is a marsh or a bog and sometimes it is a spring where water comes up from the ground.
• When two rivers meet they will join together and form a single bigger river. Before a big river reaches the sea, it will be joined by lots and lots of smaller rivers. We call these rivers its tributaries.
• Most of the water we drink is taken out of rivers as they pass through our towns. We have to clean it first though, before we can drink it.
• When rivers are flowing fast, they knock bits of earth from the banks and bed of the river (its sides and bottom) and carry it downstream with them. When earth is taken from the banks of the river this is called erosion , and the soil that is carried downstream is called silt.
• When the weather is rainy for a long time, the ground will become waterlogged and not be able to absorb any more water. This means that all the water has to flow into the rivers. But, there may be too much water for the rivers to take, which means they overflow and flood the land around them.
• We call the area of land around a river that floods when the river is too full the ‘floodplain’.
• When a river floods the water on the flooded land is moving very slowly and can’t carry the silt in it any longer. The silt is deposited on the flooded land and gives it a lot of nutrients that make the land good for farming crops. 
• When rivers reach the sea, they often spread out over a wide area and slow right down. This part of the river is called the estuary. This means that they can’t carry any of their silt any more so they drop it all onto the base of the river and into the edge of ocean. Sometimes rivers carry so much silt that when they drop it, it builds a new area of land at the edge of the ocean called a delta.
• The water in the ocean is called ‘salt water’ because it is full of salt, but water that falls as rain and flows down the rivers to the sea doesn’t have any salt in it and is called ‘fresh water’.
• You can find all sorts of fish and birds and many other kinds of creatures living in water. Some creatures that live in water like both fresh water and salt water, but some creatures only like to live in fresh water rivers and lakes and some only like to live in salt water ( marine habitats ).

Look at the gallery below and see if you can spot all the following:

• A meandering river
• The river Elbe
• The Arno in Florence, Italy
• The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
• An aerial view of the Nile in Egypt
• A sailboat on the Nile
• A river estuary
• A river in winter
• The river Thames in London
• A mountain river
• A river source
• A river curving over a prairie landscape
• Yellowstone National park in the USA

When a lot of rain falls in a short time, the ground can’t always absorb it quickly enough. This means that lots more water than normal flows into the rivers. If there is more water than the river can carry away to the sea, it bursts over its banks and floods the land around it. This is called a ‘ flash flood ’ because it happens so quickly. There aren’t always many safe places to cross a river on foot, and building bridges was hard for people before they had modern machines. Anyone going on a journey would have to cross a river at the same place as lots of other people. Towns would often grow up around these places so that travellers could find a place to sleep or trade goods with each other. The mouth of a river also used to be a very good place to build a town. Large boats that cross the sea to other countries can sail into the mouth of the river to unload their cargo and to load local produce to take elsewhere. Small boats can sail up and down the river taking goods to and from the towns that are further inland. Lots of towns are named after river crossings or the rivers that flow through them. Oxford is named after a ford where people used to take their oxen across the river Thames. Stourbridge is a town in the West Midlands where there is an old bridge over the river Stour. Dartmouth in Devon is town at the mouth of the river Dart. How many towns in your area are named after rivers or river crossings? The Welsh word for a river mouth is ‘aber’. Many towns in Wales are named after the rivers that they are on, just as they are in England . Aberystwyth is town at the mouth (aber) of the river Ystwyth. The faster a river flows, the more erosion it causes in the soil and rocks around it. Over millions of years streams and rivers will remove more and more material from the area around them and cut bigger and bigger paths for themselves. This is how valleys are created. Even quite small streams can create big valleys over a long time. When the slope that rivers are flowing down stops being so steep, rivers slow down and instead of rushing down the straightest path through the valley, they often start to curve and bend. These curves are called meanders . Erosion on the bends of the meanders means that they are slowly changing shape and that path the river takes will gradually change. Sometimes the erosion will cut a straight path for the river to take and leave what used to be a bend isolated from the river. This is called an ‘ox-bow lake’. Sometimes to make it easier to for boats to travel up and down rivers, people change the way that the river flows. If part of a river is very bendy, they might dig a straighter channel for the river to flow down so that the boats don’t have to make tight turns. Sometimes they make the river wider or make it deeper so that bigger boats can travel on it. When the river is too steep and flows to fast, they might put in locks to make it safer for the boats to travel. Rivers have also been used for a long time to help people work equipment. People would build mills to grind corn and grain near to rivers so that they could use a water wheel to work the mill. The bottom of the wheel would be put into the water, and when the water turned the wheel, the wheel would make the equipment in the mill turn and grind up the grain. Today, instead of using a wheel to operate equipment, we build big dams across the rivers and use the force of the water to turn turbines and generate electricity to power our machines. We call this hydro-electricity because it is generated from water.

Words to know:

Bank – The riverbank is the land at the side of the river. Basin – Rainwater that falls on hills flows down the side of the hills into rivers. A river basin the group of hills, valleys and lakes that water flows into the river from. Bed – The bed is the bottom of a river. A riverbed can be made of sand, rocks or mud depending on the river. Canal – A man-made waterway that is used so that boats can transport goods across bits of the country where there are no rivers they can use. Current – The strength and speed of the river. Water always flows downhill; the steeper the ground is, the stronger the current will be. Delta – A wide muddy or sandy area where some rivers meet the sea. The river slows down and drops all the sediments it was carrying. Downstream – The direction that the water flows, downhill towards the sea Fresh water – Rainwater that falls from the sky has no salt in it. We call this fresh water. Erosion – When a river flows fast it damages the riverbanks and washes bits of them downstream. This makes the river wider. Estuary – Where a river reaches the ocean and the river and ocean mix. Estuaries are normally wide and flat. Floodplain – The flat area around a river that often gets flooded when the level of water in the river is high. Mouth – The end of a river where it flows into the sea, another river or a lake. Salt water – The water in the sea is full of salt, so ‘salt water’ refers to water in seas and oceans. Silt – Small bits of dirt or sand that are carried along by a river. Source – The start of a river is its source. This could be a spring on a hillside, a lake, or a bog or marsh. A river may have more than one source. Stream – A small river Tidal river – At the end of a river, near the ocean, water from the sea flows up the river when the tide comes in. This bit of the river is called ‘tidal’. Tributary – A smaller river or stream that joins a big river is called a tributary. Upstream – The opposite direction to the way the water in a river flows Watershed – Water flows down the side of hills into rivers. But, water that lands on opposite sides of the same hill might flow into different rivers. The watershed is the boundary between two river basins.

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• Discover the unseen world in a river
• Look at river diagrams and see amazing river photography
• National Geographic rivers information and pictures
• Watch some BBC Schools video clips about the river Nile , the river Severn and the river Tay
• Design a bridge, understand how rivers are used and find out why authors, poets and artists are inspired by rivers with the British Council's Rivers of the world information pack for kids and the accompanying rivers video guides

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• Listen to the sounds of the North Tyne river
• Visit the Waterways Museum in Gloucester to learn more about rivers and canals
• See the National Waterways Museum in Cheshire
• Take a walk along your local river and see all the wildlife along it!
• Visit the River & Rowing Museum in Henley
• Hear the sound of a river and the sound of a creek

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Rivers for KS2 – Factfile for KS2 geography

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This resource all about rivers for KS2 is from The Canal & River Trust . It will help pupils discover:

• the features of a river
• why they are important
• what we use them for
• who looks after them
• what happens when rivers flood

Facts about rivers for KS2

What’s the difference between rivers and canals.

Rivers are natural. They are formed at a source such as a natural spring or a glacier and flow down the land to the sea. Canals are built by people to carry goods by boat from one place to another.

Where do rivers come from?

All rivers begin at a source. Little streams feed into bigger streams (tributaries), tributaries feed into rivers, and small rivers feed into large rivers.

Rivers have three sections: upper, middle and lower courses. The upper course is fast-flowing with strong currents. The middle course loses energy and flows more slowly. The lower course has the least energy so it is slow and smooth.

The Canal & River Trust is a charity that looks after 2,000 miles of waterways, and ‘Explorers’ is the Trust’s education programme aimed at children aged 5-11. Find out more at canalrivertrust.org.uk/explorers . You can also follow on Twitter at @canalrivertrust . See a similar resource all about canals for KS2 .

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Zvenigorod's most famous sight is the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, which was founded in 1398 by the monk Savva from the Troitse-Sergieva Lavra, at the invitation and with the support of Prince Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod. Savva was later canonised as St Sabbas (Savva) of Storozhev. The monastery late flourished under the reign of Tsar Alexis, who chose the monastery as his family church and often went on pilgrimage there and made lots of donations to it. Most of the monastery’s buildings date from this time. The monastery is heavily fortified with thick walls and six towers, the most impressive of which is the Krasny Tower which also serves as the eastern entrance. The monastery was closed in 1918 and only reopened in 1995. In 1998 Patriarch Alexius II took part in a service to return the relics of St Sabbas to the monastery. Today the monastery has the status of a stauropegic monastery, which is second in status to a lavra. In addition to being a working monastery, it also holds the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

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Located near the main entrance is the monastery's belfry which is perhaps the calling card of the monastery due to its uniqueness. It was built in the 1650s and the St Sergius of Radonezh’s Church was opened on the middle tier in the mid-17th century, although it was originally dedicated to the Trinity. The belfry's 35-tonne Great Bladgovestny Bell fell in 1941 and was only restored and returned in 2003. Attached to the belfry is a large refectory and the Transfiguration Church, both of which were built on the orders of Tsar Alexis in the 1650s.  

To the left of the belfry is another, smaller, refectory which is attached to the Trinity Gate-Church, which was also constructed in the 1650s on the orders of Tsar Alexis who made it his own family church. The church is elaborately decorated with colourful trims and underneath the archway is a beautiful 19th century fresco.

Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral

The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is the oldest building in the monastery and among the oldest buildings in the Moscow Region. It was built between 1404 and 1405 during the lifetime of St Sabbas and using the funds of Prince Yury of Zvenigorod. The white-stone cathedral is a standard four-pillar design with a single golden dome. After the death of St Sabbas he was interred in the cathedral and a new altar dedicated to him was added.

Under the reign of Tsar Alexis the cathedral was decorated with frescoes by Stepan Ryazanets, some of which remain today. Tsar Alexis also presented the cathedral with a five-tier iconostasis, the top row of icons have been preserved.

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The Nativity of Virgin Mary Cathedral is located between the Tsaritsa's Chambers of the left and the Palace of Tsar Alexis on the right. The Tsaritsa's Chambers were built in the mid-17th century for the wife of Tsar Alexey - Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna Miloskavskaya. The design of the building is influenced by the ancient Russian architectural style. Is prettier than the Tsar's chambers opposite, being red in colour with elaborately decorated window frames and entrance.

At present the Tsaritsa's Chambers houses the Zvenigorod Historical, Architectural and Art Museum. Among its displays is an accurate recreation of the interior of a noble lady's chambers including furniture, decorations and a decorated tiled oven, and an exhibition on the history of Zvenigorod and the monastery.

Palace of Tsar Alexis

The Palace of Tsar Alexis was built in the 1650s and is now one of the best surviving examples of non-religious architecture of that era. It was built especially for Tsar Alexis who often visited the monastery on religious pilgrimages. Its most striking feature is its pretty row of nine chimney spouts which resemble towers.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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