Y5 - RIVERS & MOUNTAINS

Lesson Focus

Rivers

Mountains


Digital / Computing Focus

Rivers & Mountains

Year 5 have been studying rivers and mountains. This exciting and interesting project covered how rivers are formed and how climate change can affect the levels of rivers causing flooding and erosion.

In mountains we looked at how mountains and mountain ranges are formed. We moved onto volcanic mountains and finally onto super volcanos. We finished the topic by compared the two highest mountains K2 and Mount Everest.

what we covered

Rivers

How rivers are formed, the start of a river and  flooding and erosion along with local rivers.

Mountains

How mountains are formed,  types of mountains and the geography of mountains.

Volcanos

What is a volcano and how they are formed. The destructive power and super volcanos.

Climate Change

We looked at how climate change can affect the level of rivers along with local flooding. 

worksheets and learning together

R&M Worksheet

online Worksheets

Children completed a worksheet on both rivers and mountains. Everything was done in the classroom on Chromebooks and children used a mix of online tools to help their learning - from Google Docs, Google Maps to Jamboard.