This resource follows a river’s full journey from source to mouth, covering the upper, middle and lower courses, key features like waterfalls, meanders and tributaries, and the link to the water cycle.

It is a ready-to-teach PowerPoint scaffold for an hour-long geography lesson on rivers. Children build and label their own river journey map, quiz a partner as river detectives, and explore famous rivers including the Thames, Severn, Nile and Amazon.

Sections on why rivers matter, flooding and river protection round off the lesson.