How a visit to Killhope can inspire

Where is the river? Where does it go? How is it changing? What do I think and feel
about the river?
• To undertake fieldwork.
• To make plans and maps.
• How rivers erode,
transport and deposit
materials producing
particular landscape
features.
• To use secondary sources
of evidence.
• Ask the children to use local
maps to locate and map the
course of the tributaries of the
River Wear.
• Ask the children to sketch the
river and record its features.
• Describe and explain erosion
and deposition, focusing on a
suitable meander point (there
is one on site) to contrast
bends, speed of flow, contrasts
in riverbank features and
depth.
• Walk the riverbank and note if
its profile changes, taking
suitable recordings, carrying
out field sketches. Discuss the
human use of water, such as
powering the mining
machinery.
• Ask the children to carry out
some creative writing about the
river.
• Draw a map of the route
of the river.
• Draw and label sketch
maps of the river
features.
• Identify parts of the river
/ stream system.
• Record and graph
changes to the features
of the river.
• Show change along a
river’s length through a
sequenced display of
sections, graphs and
sketches.
• Map a river section and
annotate land use.
• Express personal likes
and dislikes about the
river.
What is the river like? How does it affect the landscape? How is it changing and why?
• To investigate places.
• To analyse and
communicate.
• To use geographical
vocabulary.
• To use atlases and globes.
• To use secondary sources.
• About links with other
places.
• About river systems.
• About environmental
impact.
• Locate Killhope Burn on a
map, and research it to present
a project. This may include:
connections between farming,
industry and climate;
annotated maps e.g.
identifying settlements or
transport routes; causes and
effects of changes in the river
e.g. drought; descriptive
accounts of a journey along
the river.
• Know about the river
they have studied and its
effect on the landscape.
• Understand how and
why the river is
changing.
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