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Rolling on the River (ning)
http://rollingontheriver.ning.com/
Rolling on the River
A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Study of Rivers and Water
This is a resource for global collaboration and the educational study of rivers and other bodies of water. Share information, find global partners, and learn more about rivers, lakes, and oceans through participation and collaboration.

Rivers of the World
http://tr.im/n14l
Rivers of the World
Rivers Of The World (ROW) is a not-for-profit Christian ministry that targets remote river basins. Our goal is to serve with people who live in these river basins and those we serve determine our projects. We ask the people what makes up their greatest challenges and covenant with them to meet and overcome those challenges together.

Amazon River : (Kit of Digital Assets)
http://www.kitzu.com/
Amazon River : (Kit of Digital Assets)
The Amazon River is considered to be the largest river in the world by volume. It has the greatest total river flow than the next eight largest rivers combined! The length has been measured to as much as 4,195 miles long. The main river can be as wide as 6 miles ....
“Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic.
For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose.
As they master the technology, they will progress from building projects with supplied materials to projects where they find or create their own resources -- a strategy that results in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced."

Yangtze River : Photographs
http://images.google.com/images?q=Yangtze+River+source:life
Yangtze River : Photographs
Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today.
Most were never published and are now available through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

Florida Springs
http://www.floridasprings.info
A blog dedicated to the 700+ springs located throughout Florida and those rivers that are spring-fed.

Grand Canyon Village videos
http://tinyurl.com/5fevv8
Grand Canyon Village videos

Water : Videos and PowerPoints
http://watervideos.blogspot.com/
The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here.
If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this button

Rivers at the Teachers Resource Exchange TRE UK
http://tinyurl.com/qcrqb
Rivers at the Teachers Resource Exchange TRE UK
Teachers in the UK share their classroom resources on Rivers.

Marco Polo in China
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=493
On the Road with Marco Polo
Marco Polo in China looking at and the two main rivers in China, the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)

VirtualRiver
http://vcourseware4.calstatela.edu/VirtualRiver/
Welcome to VirtualRiver. Here you will find two interactive exercises designed to help you learn about river processes like discharge, flooding, and flood frequency.
Each activity requires you to make careful observations and measurements, do simple calculations, and answer questions about your work. A "Certificate of Completion" will be available to you at the end of each activity.

Geography Essentials: Investigating Rivers
http://tinyurl.com/cn9vf
Geography Essentials: Investigating Rivers
Worksheets | images | weblinks |

Living with Rivers
http://www.globaleye.org.uk/primary_autumn2001/oncamera/index.html
Living with Rivers ... pictures with questions

Principal Rivers of the World
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0001779.html
Principal Rivers of the World
Name | Source | Outflow | length |

River World
http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/geography/rivers/
River World has resources for children and teachers on rivers, waterways and water in our homes.
There are articles with maps and diagrams and a Photo Gallery to support pupils' research. For teachers, there are ideas, worksheets and examples of class work.

The Amazon: The World's Greatest River
http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/news/february97.html
Tour Along The Amazon: The World's Greatest River
Our journey began in Iquitos, Peru, a noisy city of 400,000 and the largest in the Peruvian Amazon. Motorcycle taxis race through the streets and the docks and open market bustle with activity. The markets are filled with products from the rain forest, most legal and some illegal. It's not uncommon to find endangered animals quartered and sold by the kilo. Sadly, enforcement is difficult and people try to make ends meet any way that they can.

Rivers and Regions
http://www.thewaterpage.com/rivers_regions.htm
Rivers and Regions
Over time The Water Page intends to build up a collection of interesting features on river basins and regions of the world.

Rivers Seen From Space
http://www.athenapub.com/rivers1.htm
Rivers Seen From Space
A survey of satellite and aerial views from NASA/JPL sources ranging from Gemini and Landsat to TOPSAR and SIR-C (from the 1960s through 1990s) includes numerous pictures of the Nile, Amazon, Mississippi, and other major river systems. Their striking visual patterns (enhanced by the false-color imagery used in interpretation) reveal a diversity of both natural and human-made processes within important zones of long-term habitation.

Why Rivers Flood
http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/enquiry/we30.htm
Why Rivers Flood
It may seem hard to believe that a small, slow-flowing stream or gentle river could cause serious damage to people and the places in which they live and work, but looks can be deceptive!

Importance of Rivers
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/rivers/chintro.htm
Importance of Rivers
Rivers are of immense importance geologically, biologically, historically and culturally. Although they contain only about 0.0001% of the total amount of water in the world at any given time, rivers are vital carriers of water and nutrients to areas all around the earth.

Webcams pointed at Rivers
http://www.webcamgalore.com/EN/Rivers/themecam-0.html
Webcams pointed at Rivers .. see them live.

Investigating Rivers
http://www.4learning.co.uk/essentials/geography/units/rivers_bi.shtml
Investigating Rivers
Cities, towns and villages have grown up on or near rivers because people use the water for many purposes. People need water to drink and to grow food. They use rivers for transporting people and goods. Some rivers are dammed to form reservoirs for drinking water, or to make electricity called hydro-electric power.
images | worksheets | weblinks | channel 4 |

River Cyberhunt | Rivers and Coasts
http://tinyurl.com/pzyyp
River Cyberhunt | Rivers and Coasts
Interactive Online internet resources for a River Cyberhunt and Rivers and Coasts

The Water Cycle
http://tinyurl.com/3eq6y
Unit 14 - Investigating Rivers
Click here for a Powerpoint presentation on the Water Cycle (Works best with Powerpoint XP)

Investigating river characteristics
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?rid=4876
Pupils conducted a fieldwork investigation of a river at different locations along its course, using ICT to collect, record, present, and analyse the results. The activity was significantly enhanced by the use of portable computers, a digital camera, a datalogging unit and a flow meter. Year 8 pupils from a rural comprehensive in Cumbria completed the activity.

River flood
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=tl&cat=001002004&rid=4880
Pupils in a Year 8 class in a school in Devon took part in fieldwork in which they discovered that the local River Erme seemed to have become more prone to flooding than in the past. They were set the task of finding out why this might be the case.
The teacher prepared a spreadsheet to model the link between rainfall intensity and the response of the stream, and entered data about local rainfall and stream flow. Working in pairs, the pupils spent a lesson at the computer selecting different rainfall characteristics and varying the land use near the river. The pupils were able to create flood hydrographs relating to different conditions and to suggest a range of hypotheses to explain why the river was flooding more frequently.

River features and processes
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?rid=4868
River features and processes
Children investigated river features and processes present on the River Porter in Sheffield as part of a fieldwork week after their English, mathematics and sciences national tests.
The activity made use of video, word-processing software, and a datalogger and its associated software. Year 5 children, working at a school in a former mining village, completed this activity.

Rivers Lesson from
http://schoolexpress.com/unitnews/rivers_g8h5.pdf
Rivers Lesson from "School Express" School Expres are a subscription service ... this lesson on Rivers is an example of their materials.
Note that this is an Adobe pdf file
river | rivers | water |

Rivers 2001 (National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/
Get your hands wet with these river conservation activities! See our Events Calendar and River Partners Directory.
Plunge into conservation fun with these K–12 river resources! Also find Web links and other educational materials here.
You’re invited to take part in Geography Action!, an annual conservation and awareness program designed to educate and excite people about our natural, cultural, and historic treasures.

A River Reborn : Video
http://www.harcourtschool.com/articles/video_updates/064/064_160_80.html
A River Reborn - Reporting: Gina London
The Edwards Dam near Augusta, Maine, was demolished a year ago to restore the natural flow of the river. Ten species of fish and other kinds of wildlife have returned to the river since the removal of the dam.
rivers | dam | video | fish |

Delaware Water Gap
http://www.nps.gov/dewa/kids/dewakids.html
Along the river are lots of woods and fields that are home to animals and plants. Some are very special and are so rare that they are considered endangered species! Because this is a national park, they are protected here.

Living Lakes
http://www.livinglakes.org/top.htm
The Living Lakes partnership promotes voluntary international collaboration among organizations that carry out projects benefiting lakes, wildlife, and people.

American Rivers OnLine
http://www.amrivers.org/
American Rivers is a national conservation organization dedicated to protecting and restoring America's river systems and to fostering a river stewardship ethic.