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Rivers of the World
Follow one river from where it starts to where it stops.
1 week
The same topic, four ways
Pre-K to Grade 2
Where does water go when it rains? Follow it outside.
🔬 Science🌍 Social Studies
Grades 6 to 8
Why cities sit on rivers, and what happens when the river moves.
🌍 Social Studies🔬 Science✏️ Writing
Grades 9 to 10
Water rights: who owns a river that crosses a border.
🌍 Social Studies✏️ Writing
Build it together: The kitchen-tray river
What you need
- a baking tray
- soil, sand or flour
- a jug of water
Steps
- Build a slope at one end of the tray.
- Pour water slowly at the top and watch where it decides to go.
- Try to make it bend. Try to stop it flooding.
- Each person names one thing the water did that they did not expect.