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Join us as we start by recapping the water cycle and working out what it has to do with rivers. Do you know any rivers in the U.K or any of their features? This lesson will introduce us to rivers and we can find out all about where rivers start and where they end up. Are they all the same? Join us to find out 🙂
Hello I’m not sure what’s going on did my intro play I don’t know it’s all going a bit wrong I’m not sure what’s happening but hello and welcome to uh another set of live lessons let me know if if the intro is playing I’m not sure
What’s going on I’ve got Gremlins in my machine so welcome to everybody who is joining us um live uh over on uh Facebook everybody’s watching us on YouTube everybody who’s watching on catchu uh if you haven’t been here before my name’s Chrissy um and for the next six it did play so I
Was sort of stopping it it did kind of twice that was me pressed all the BS I’m really sorry I don’t know why it’s not sharing on my screen never mind we’ll pretend that didn’t happen I’m usually very professional I don’t know what’s going on so um yes welcome my name is
Chrissy and we are here for another six weeks of world Learners and this week um and for the next six weeks what we’re going to be looking at is we’re going to be looking at Rivers now one of the big things it depends on where you live but
Rivers is really really really topical actually because we have had lots and lots and lots of rain it’s still raining outside right now um and lots and lots of rivers have swelled and caused lots and lots of flooding um and so uh I was hoping actually to do a video for you
Going to um one of our local rivers and it’s actually got a flood warning still in place um so uh that’s what we’re going to be looking at if you have an atlas a UK or a UK map then please don’t and grab it today uh because you will
Need it alternative fee you need to go and ask your grown-ups permission but you could use Google um but if you don’t have anything then don’t worry um but it is better um if you do have an atlas or access to Google Maps and other maps are
Available so welcome I can see so many of you in the chat let’s get started and the first thing we’re going to think about is what do you think of when we talk about water what do you think of when we talk about water do you know any
Facts about uh rivers or Seas do you know anything about water in particular what do you know I’m hoping I’m going to play um some water water video to get you thinking but you can jot it down at home on some paper you could chat about
It home if you’re on Facebook you can write about it in the chat but what do you think of when we talk about water and I’m going to hope this place is it ready is it not playing oh my goodness was it playing oh my goodness all
Going any time off was it playing or was it not let’s have a left what’s going on what’s going on why is it not working is it working oh it is working right I’m going to stop talking because I was yaking over that do you know what there’s something wrong my iPad I
Dropped my iPad but I know that you could see it so I’m going to play it again and think about what you think about what you what you think about when you think about water or anything you already know so what sorts of things did you think
About so we’ve got thinking about the sea the rain and the difference between salt water and fresh water H some thinking of flamingos some bars and showers um and drinking water um and plant life and Fish Life absolutely oceans waves beaches storms puddles um is saying evaporation condensation absolutely water is all
Around us we rely on water to drink falls out of the sky which is doing right where I am right now um we have the Seas we have lots of rivers um and um the flow of the water is very different absolutely so dependent on where you go it could be fast flowing
Water it could be um sort of a trickle if you’re thinking about maybe an underwater spring um you might live near a beach but water or you might live near you know if you think about the oceans if you look at a a globe or or the Earth
Um that absolutely the we are surrounded by water and as lots of you are saying we need water to keep ourselves clean someone walked through a flood and a car was stuck that has been a lot of my life this week actually um wading my poor car
Through lots and lots of Puddles so what we’re going to be thinking about is lots of things about water and why water is so important and particularly as I said we’re going to be looking at Rivers but these are the things that I found out I thought I would start by sharing with
You there is an estimated 326 million trillion gallons of water on Earth so water is incredibly important around about 73% of your brain is water which is an awful lot but only 3% of of the water um on Earth is actually fresh water and of that 3% over 68% of
That fresh water is locked up in ice so actually if we think about our access to fresh water it’s actually kind of a Teensy bit of our whole Global uh amounts of water on our Earth and another one is you could not survive longer than three days without water so
Water is incredibly important important where our water comes from where we get water um and also as I said this links us very nicely to Rivers now I want you to think about rain it’s raining now if you were one of those little raindrops if it’s raining by you I know we have
People joining us from all over the world so it might be nice and sunny where you are but if you think about the rain and you’ve Fallen you’ve Fallen two kilometers to the ground from that cloud up there and you fall at about a speed of 40 miles an hour
Where would you land what might you see if you were a raindrop and you could see what happens next so you falling out of the sky where are you likely to land what might you see around you what happens next so have a think of those raindrops you’ve got lots falling out of
The Skies so yes someone say it might hit a tree it goes through a cycle so it goes from rain through a cycle back to rain that’s a really good answer could land on your window absolutely that might if a if a raindrop could feel that might hurt if it’s
Slapped on your window it might land and then evaporate so we’re going to think about that a little bit more it could cause yeah so when we have lots of rain then it kind of dries a little bit um it goes uh often even sometimes see a
Rainbow could land in a river absolutely might land on some leaves you might land in a roof you might land with your friends make a puddle or a flood I might fall in the ocean you might fall on a car with all your friends and then be
Wiped away uh you might cause a flood Jaden said um it would be painful if you were alive thank goodness uh raindrops aren’t actually alive but we are surrounded by rain quite a lot of this time and the reason I’ve asked you to do that is because some people have talked about evaporation
And condensation um and you could so someone’s going to cause the river to burst its banks if they dropped on the rain uh they dropped as rain with lots of their friends uh we’ve had some of these words like evaporation and you can’t really study Rivers unless you’re going to look at
What’s known as the water cycle now we have briefly done the water cycle if you’ve been with me for a very long time but we’re going to recap the you might have done the water cycle at home but we’re going to recap the water cycle and
What we’re going to think about is what are the I’m going to show you a video and we’re going to think about what are the stages of the water cycle and then we’re going to think is what is responsible for evaporation and then what is transpiration so that’s what we’re going
To think about so I’m going to just go through them again we’re going to think about what are the stages of the water cycle what is responsible for evaporation and what is transpiration okay it was you did do it with me but it was a while ago I was trying to actually
Think Jack what on Earth I used it for but we’re going to look so we’re going to have a nice recap because this is important when we get to Rivers so are we ready listen out for evaporation transpiration and those stages of the water Cycle hello glob Trotters I’m here with me new friend Claude and he was just asking me what clouds are now I don’t know where my friend Claude comes from but I can tell you where all the other clouds come from let’s get started may I climb a board a Claude
There is always the same amount of water within the Earth’s atmosphere moving through the different stages of the water cycle evaporation condensation precipitation and runoff evaporation happens when water is heated when a liquid like water is heated the molecules move and vibrate quicker and quicker until they escape as
Gas the thing responsible for this in nature is the sun H don’t look at it about 10% of water vapor comes from transpiration transpiration is when water evaporates from the leaves of plants the water vapor rises in the atmosphere Cooling and condensing into a liquid state this process creates the clouds we see in the sky and it’s called
Condensation looks just like me that’s right Claude what happens next precipitation comes next the condensed water vapor falls back to Earth in the form of rain water can also fall as hail sleet and snow after precipitation water reaches the Earth and moves across the ground in a process called
Runoff some of this water soaks into the soil and fills spaces between rocks becoming groundwater some ground water refills rivers in Lakes where water cannot soak into the ground it flows downhill and will gradually reach bodies of water such as streams rivers and oceans and that makes the water cycle
Start again exactly claw God the runoff stage gave us plenty of liquid water ready to evaporate that will then condense into clouds fall back down as rain and look another cycle done isn’t water fascinating I wonder what else I can show claw in you guys oh oh
No I got a run guys I’ll see you later say bye Claude bye Claude so there was lots in there I hope you enjoyed that but there was so much to cover with regards to the water cycle and hopefully you could see why it’s so important when you’re studying Rivers so
The first thing to think of was what were the stages of the water cycle did you hear out for what evaporation was and transpiration was because we looked at this water cycle and this is really how our water how our fresh water cycles around so the first thing is is
Obviously you can start the cycle anywhere but we’re going to start with precipitation so precipitation is where you have rain or sleep or snow or hail and it falls um out of the sky and then it often lands on high ground or it might land sort of
Um on sort of fields and then you have runoff um and so the runoff is really important because the runoff has to go somewhere and we’re going to look at that when we get a little bit more into rivers and then obviously the Sun comes out or uh you know we have General
Evaporation generally happens you don’t have to have it boiling hot but then that water will eventually evaporate it evaporates off lakes and rivers and so on um and it uh and then it it rises up into the atmosphere where it cools um so there was a really good part of video
Where I explained a little bit about how evaporation works and then as I said the water turns to water vapor it evaporates it’s a bit like a kettle you can see evapor a when you put your kettle on you can see the the steam coming out of your
Spout of your Kettle and then as the water vapor Rises it cools and then it condenses and then it turns back into rain sweet snow and it falls again as precipitation and also there was a discussion about transpiration because transpiration is really really important as well what was transpiration can anybody remember what
Transp Iration is because that’s part of evaporation but transpiration is where the water evaporates from what so we tend to say transpiration is where the water um absolutely escapes from leaves trees plants because where they’ve sort of where it’s all landed on on trees and vegetation so if you’re in an area which
Is a big Woodland you’ll see lots of examples of transpiration so it’s where that water uh Vapor sort of leaves trees and plants um and their leaves and runoff is really important as part of this cycle because where you often find a lot of runoff starts runoff then eventually not in all
Cases obviously because no way the runoff that’s coming off my garden onto the path by side of my house that’s not going to make its way into a river it’s going to probably make its way into the drain outside the front of my house but
A lot of runoff runs off uh into rivers and that’s why we started off looking at the water cycle because you can see that a raindrops Journey it Journeys through the water cycle um it’s a cycle it’s the same water I’m sure you’ve heard this cool fact before but you’re probably
Drinking the same water uh that a dinosaur drank um and you probably um you know it’s probably been there’s loads the fact out how many bodies um the water’s already been through uh before you actually drink it it goes through your body but do you know what I
Don’t like to think about that too much but the water cycle is incredibly important because as I said that is how we end up uh with rivers because you get that runoff now some rivers are Cur are fed by some natural springs but that runoff of the water cycle is incredibly
Important for Rivers now if you have a an atlas of uh the UK you’re looking for a physical map if you remember um when we did Maps a very long time ago you kind of you’re going to need a physical map is the best map because that in
Theory should have the rivers on it if not uh then you can um you can think about um using Google but before we start do you know any major rivers in England how many of England’s Rivers can you name do you know any definitely not a T-rex or Triceratops
That’s definitely not the name of any of England’s major rivers can you name any of the rivers in the UK because lots of people don’t often know many the TS definitely lots of people know the TS so I live very close to the source of the
TS um and so that was where I was going to try and head out uh this week to video some stuff for you but as I said I didn’t get to because it’s very flooded the river seven the river aen the river Mery the river Trent awesome you know so
Many the river Tove or toi uh the river temps absolutely um the Avon again yes um the river Dean brilliant so there’s lots and lots of different Rivers there’s loads of rivers this is a I’m going turn my camera so you can see this
Is a map of lots of the rivers so you can see that that’s definitely going to be so we’re just looking at rivers of England um or or the UK we’re not going to move on to uh we’re not going to move on to rivers of the world quite yet but
The Nile is one we’re going to be looking at that next week the river ax uh the river X the river th absolutely there’s so many of these Rivers uh the river D the River Shannon uh the river Trent absolutely there will definitely be a river near you uh dependent on
Where um you uh live which one do you think is the longest river and have a little look which rivers are close to you which one do you think might be the longest river what might be the longest river good you see any near you so the
Nearest Big River to where I grew up was the Tamar which is the river that goes through or near to Plymouth um we’ve got little rivers in cornall but not lots um but yeah the Tamar is a big one can you see um which ones are near to you which
Ones are near to you there’s lots the river y the river seven the river Tweed that’s lots and lots the river Trent so we’re just sticking to the UK lots of you are desperate to talk about the Nile um so longest river to near us is the nen
Um awesome yeah there’s lots isn’t there now the longest river so some of you saying is it the temps some of you saying it might look like the seven some of you saying it might look like the Trent it’s really really hard isn’t it because actually uh there’s a lots of
Discussion about what uh rivers are the longest and we’re going to look at this uh next week in a bit more detail because I’m going to get involved in the NY versus the Amazon debate but we’re not doing that right now but the rivers in England so let’s think where the most
Rivers start and where the most rivers end so what I would like you to do and this is where you’re going to need your Atlas so what I would like you to do I’m not going to tell you at the moment what the longest river is I’m going to come
Back to that in a second because what I want you to do is I want you to get your Atlas out and I want you to pick any River pick the one maybe that’s closest to you and I want you to think where does that River start so open up your
Map try and find the river or you can as I said do it on Google um or if not you can try and if you can use this map and try and work out the geography but it’s easier it’s a little bit easier if you have a map where does it actually start
And if you’re in Spain uh then you can definitely also yet you can look at whatever river is near to you so you can look at the Ebro and where that starts um but just pick one uh so look at the seven where does the seven start you
Could maybe Google it if you have your grown-ups permission um because obviously I’m not with you you could the best thing to do is to get using your Atlas so they definitely most rivers do look like they’re ending near the ocean can you find where so where you’ve got
The T you can see where it looks like it’s exiting the UK where is that can you have a little look so open up your Maps uh or look on as I said you can if your parent or parents or grown-ups agree you can look online where pick a
Mirror pick a river not a mirror a river where does it starts and where does it end I’m going to give you a minute to do that and I’m going to stop yaking so rather than just say they start at a mountain and they end at an ocean I want something
Specific so I can see um the river Trent starts in the penines okay so I’m looking for some specifics pick one where does it start and where does it end right some lovely answers so um the river Trent starts in the peni um Jack has many end in esteres and then
They flow into the sea um summer I live in chedda the longest river is the River Axe it starts in Dorset you know where in Dorset it flows South to line Bay which it enters through the accessory in Devon the river Trent ends in the North
Sea um the aen is the biggest it starts in the middle of the country it joins Another River and then it ends near Bristol the seven starts in Wells and ends in Bristol the river itchin starts in new Al alris for and ends at Southampton water amazing the Trent
Flows into the Humber Ester and then into the North Sea where does the Trent start do you know so there’s lots of lots this is a really do you know what I love this as an activity you can carry on with this after um the diff after
This um activity the nen starts near daventry my sister lives somewhere near the near a Leisure Center called the nen Center I wonder if that’s named after the um the river nen I’ve never been but yeah starts near DeVry daventry must be Northampton sh somewhere um so yeah most
Rivers do tend to start uh the temp starts at a Cold Spring oh wow we’re going to talk about that the trent starts in the mid this is a great activity the river Gade I think it’s the gate or the guard starts at Chilton Hills ends in Richmond’s worth joining the river cold
Amazing this is a great activity to do to start learning your English geography and your Rivers um so absolutely have a little look have a little look at all of these different places where they start and where they end and actually I’ve been a little bit um kind of a little
Bit mean because if you look at the temps um and you can look at your atlet if you want to see where cuz somebody says oh the temp starts at a Cold Spring and this is where I’m going to start talking to you about how Rivers can get
A little bit more complicated so the temps where does the river temp start so if you look at your map or you look at uh your Atlas or you look at my map um where does the river temp start which major places does it run through and then where does it kind of
End up well this is where we’re going to say that the answers to all of these things are never actually that easy because if you can see I’m going to just give you a few moments to have a have a look but the river temps definitely throws flows
Through quite a few major places it runs through lechlade it runs through Swindon it runs through Oxford it runs through reading it runs all the way through London um and then it decants out into the North Sea but on my map um it says that it runs um it runs it starts in
Kemble so lissy said the T starts with a Cold Spring it does uh on my map look like it starts near kemell now I’m just going to leave the uh leave actually I’m gonna come back to that I’m GNA come back to that in a second I’m just going to leave
The Ts for a second and I’m going to show you this picture this is the river camel and so the river camel um is is in uh Cornwall um and it uh it looks a little bit like this and so what do you notice about uh the river camel what do you
Notice about it well what you can noce about the river camel is there’s two things about the river camel the first thing is there are lots of other rivers that join onto the river camel so we have the delank river we have the river Riv Alan we have the river amble and we
Have the river ruen there’s lots and lots of other rivers that it does look like veins there are lots of rivers that join into the river camel so that’s the first thing to say and the other thing is if you look at the river camel and
You look up where it says camford which is probably uh where it gets its name from can you see that there’s lots of little tiny bit of river flowing into the main river now they are known as if you don’t know they are known as tributaries and so it’s really really
This is what leads to lots of lots of arguing over where Rivers actually start where the actual source is because you can get lots and lots of tributaries so you don’t tend when you have a river you don’t tend to have it as a start point
And then it just stays perfectly as just One River and then it uh and then it ejects out into the sea or somewhere else what you find is that Rivers um have lots of tribut tre so like veins so there’s lots of different bits that flow all together into that River and other
Rivers flow into rivers too and so it doesn’t make it very very um easy and the example I’m going to use and going find out this for yourself is the start of the river temps now if you go online there is some real arguing about it people are really passionate about the
Start of the river temps so for the first people uh the the sort of agreed answer would you be is that it starts in trb me so if you get an OS map if you do have an OS map um or if you have the OS
Map app or whatever if you look for try me that is where the official start point of the river tend is it was declared as early as 1546 and if you go there and I live near here actually and that’s what I was hoping I will try my best if the weather
Gets better to get some footage of it before we finish for the six weeks but if you go to truce spre me there is a big monument and that big Monument says this is the start of the river temps This Is Where It Starts Now if you go
There in the summer you’d be surprised you can’t see anything it’s just a field but if you go there right now you would see it coming you would see the start of it start of it and this is where the official start is of the uh of the river
Temps and if you look on an OS some OS Maps they actually even have by Tres we me the start of the river temps and as I said it’s got a a big Monument there and it was declared as early as 1546 however if you travel 11 11 mil further towards
Chelam which is a little bit further north um there is um another spring and that’s called seven spring and it’s on higher ground it’s higher up than um Tres be need and there’s a lot of discussion because when you decide where a river starts and if you’ve got if it’s
Got lots of tributaries the rule tends to be that it’s whichever is the higher ground so whichever is furthest away from its mouth but also what is the higher ground and so lots and lots of people say no no no the source of the river temps is in seven spring and
That’s 11 miles further towards chelman and that’s where the river temps start which would make the river temps 11 miles longer than it often is classified as so go and have a look at this controversy and you will find this controversy in lots and lots of it’s
Also with mountains as well in terms of how high mountains are and various things because it’s all about where you measure it now there are lots of geographers that say that it’s not seventh spring that this is not uh that it’s definitely truths be me and there
Are lots of people that will say it’s not je we need it’s definitely seven spring so go and have a look about the controversy of where the start of the river T is um and so back to our question what is the longest river in
The UK you can go and research a little bit more about uh the um about the uh temps but these are the two official Arguments for the river temps so where do rivers start let’s have a little think of what we’ve learned uh so Rivers
Tend to start very high up on Hills or mountains and this is known as the source of the river and it has lots of tributaries as I said you go from the furthest from the MTH and the highest point and as I’ve said where does it
Come from well it come it could start in a lake it’s obviously linked to the water cycle but it could uh say that it could start in a lake it could start at a bog it could start with a natural spring or it could start in an area with
A lot of runoff so those are the kind of sources so when you’re researching more about UK uh rivers or where you’re uh whatever wherever you’re looking at have a little look at the source what is the source is it a lake is it a bulk is it
Spring or is it just an area because it’s on High Ground is it just an area that has a lot of runoff uh due to precipitation so the next question is how does this water actually become a river how does it become a river well it’s just really the physical geography
The river runs down a hill um and it forms into a stream and then lots of these little streams occur we often call them as I said tribute trees and eventually they all join together to form a river and so that’s why you see this vein like uh sort of feature when
You look at Rivers because they all run and they all tend to flow a specific way due to the landscape and the physical geography of where you’re looking at and as I said these all these little areas know as tributaries and they tend to then wherever they meet and flow that’s
Where you have the river and the rivers usually end up in either a the sea or Another River or a lake they don’t always end in the sea you’re often told when you’re little All Rivers lead to the Sea um but they don’t they might lead to another River as
We’ve seen with the camel uh the Camel River um and uh they might uh they might end up in a lake so they don’t um they don’t always end in the sea and as I’ve said to you the end of the river is known as the mouth that’s the mouth of
The river so that is a real introduction to Rivers uh there’s still a lot of controversy going on in the chat about where the ter started go and find out for yourself uh come and have a de decision go and have a little research go and have a little discussion about it
At home um and go and find out what you think the longest river is whether it is definitely the temps um and find out as I said some Rivers uh rivers around you obviously probably now is not the best time to be visiting a river uh but definitely find out where there’s some
Rivers near you because it don’t have to be the humongous ones that we’ve seen on my map that said there is a RI World rivers rivers World Learners Rivers planning guide which you can find dependent on when you’re watching either in the copy above below or to the side
Where there’s a little bit of text where I talk about what is in each lessons please go and download that uh that has lots of extra activities that you can do um those activities range from something that’s crafty or practical uh to something that you can do just to
Develop what you’ve learned today stuff for primary Learners stuff for older Learners as well all the way up to GCSE uh there’s also quite a cool quiz if you look if you like yasmin’s Wonderful World if you head over to twinkle as well uh we were I was going to do it at
The end but we’ve had we’ve had such a lot of chat and it’s a bit uh it’s a I’m going to I’m going to leave otherwise we be here too long but definitely also go and check out the water cycle quiz if you uh would like to but do go and
Download that pack because we put lots of time writing it to help you form um lots of activities to do after this do share them over on Facebook or lots of you I do know DM me if you don’t want to publicly particularly older Learners that write lots of extended answers my
DM Box is always open if you’d like to share stuff privately I love to see it but do go and share over on our Facebook book group spread the word about rivers go and find out more about the temps rivers near you get those atlases out
And learn about lots and lots of rivers in the UK join me next week where we will be looking at rivers of the world um and you’ll need an atlas again next week please um and yes over and out thank you very very much I’ll see you soon