Year 5 Geography enquiry. What is a River?

The objective of this investigation is to enable pupils to understand the features and processes of a common and very significant feature of physical geography with which they will be familiar. Rivers are commonplace in a wide range of environments and pupils will therefore, already know something about them. For example, from regular news reports and perhaps even direct experience of river floods in their own community. Many settlements in the United Kingdom, no matter what size, will have rivers flowing through or close to them.