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GCSE	Edexcel Geography Specification A syllabus no.1312
1  The Physical World	1 c River Landscapes
Chapter 1  pages	Tomorrow's Geography  Mike Harcourt and Steph Warren, published by Hodder and Stoughton 0 340 79965 X
River Landscapes The change in the characteristics or a river and its valley between source and mouth..
Students should: Describe the changes in width, depth, discharge and gradient of a river valley as it moves from its source to its mouth..
River Landscapes   (2  lessons)	Rivers - chacteristics Introduce rivers. Show video 215 of River Tees river from source to mouth. Students to note down changes in the rivers characteristics. Complete a grid while watching the video. Introduce cross-sections. Students to draw cross-section of the river at three points in its course - making a copy of fig. 1.14 page 12. Draw cross-sections of river in upper and middle course from section sheet.
River Landscapes  The formation of interlocking spurs, meanders, ox-bow lakes, flood plains, levees and deltas.
Students should: Describe and explain the formation of interlocking spurs, meanders, ox-bow lakes, floodplains, levees and deltas.
Upland stream-bed in Borrowdale	The Long Profile and the Upper Course   Fill in details of the V-shaped valley using sheet: The valley cross and long profile or the interlocking spurs sketch from page 13. Watch short video on River Conwy .. video 203, 224 or 234. Explain the basics of sediment load size and movement. Use information from videos and sheet.     Waterfalls   Fill in sheet on waterfall processes - on the storybook or annotated sketch .. .sheets for each. Waterfall page for Year 7
The River Greta in spate- August 2002. River Landscapes (5  lessons)     .. and on multimap   River Bran meander   A levee on the Mississippi         The Mississippi delta, a digitate delta.	Meanders and ox-bows   Explain the processes of the middle course - , meanders and ox-bow lakes. Information sheet - The Middle Course - The Valley Stage. Sheet - Diagrams - Meander features .. to be annotated and explanation added. Computer-labelled image of meander. River Bran, Strath Bran, Scotland Storybook sheet of Meander Development - ox-bow lake formation. Meander page for Year 7.       The Plain Stage   sheet on  Building the Flood Plain - flood plains and levees.   River Landscapes - Deltas   Explain deltas and complete the sheet - The Plain Stage - Deltas. Exercise: Deltas of the World - world map with latitude and longitude marked. Grid to be filled in and deltas sketched. Make a page using computer images to represent the different shapes of deltas.   Two views of the River Mississippi .. a digitate or bird's foot shaped delta .. showing the sediment plumes from its many channels pushing out into the Gulf of Mexico.
GCSE home	1. Coastal landscapes  2. Glaciated Landscapes  3. River Landscapes  meanders and waterfalls