Tag: life under water

The Journey of a river

Over the last fews weeks we’ve been learning about the journey of a river and applying this knowledge to our topic ‘ The Craigie to the Clyde’.

We’ve explored the upper, middle and lower parts of the river and the different features of each part. We’ve followed the journey of Aurs Burn, to Brockburn all the way to the River Clyde.

We have recognised how features of rivers such as waterfalls, gorges and meanders are formed.

Finally we recreated our own river journeys using makedo kits and cardboard. We applied our craft and mathematical knowledge to make freestanding 3d objects and just slopes and lines to control the flow of the water. We worked in teams to plan, cut and create some fabulous designs.

Fun Fact Finding

The boys and girls have really enjoyed using the chromebooks to independently use A search engine to find facts about endangered sea creatures. Lots of children are keen to help save green sea turtles, axolotl, hammer head sharks and fin whales. They created fact files about their chose sea creature and found out where they lived and why they were in danger, they even came up with lots of interesting suggestions of how to save them!