Amazing Rivers: 100+ Waterways That Will Boggle Your Mind

by Julie Vosburgh Agnone & Kerry Hyndman

Geography
Key Stage 2

Discover over 100 of the world’s most incredible rivers in this fascinating title by Julie Vosburgh Agnone and illustrated by Blue Peter prize-winner Kerry Hyndman.

Amazing Rivers takes readers on a tour of the world’s waterways, revealing the animals that call them home, the societies that rely on them and the environmental issues threatening them along the way.

agriculture, atmosphere, biomes, caves, climate, coast, continents, Earth, earthquake, erosion, evaporation, evolution, geography, habitat, industry, lifecycle, moon, mountain, plants, rainforest, river, rocks, science, seasons, soil, space, tectonics, transport, volcano, water cycle, weather

Programme of Study

‘As pupils progress, their growing knowledge about the world should help them to deepen their understanding of the interaction between physical and human processes, and of the formation and use of landscapes and environments.‘

Aims from POS

develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places –both terrestrial and marine –including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time

(Key Stage 2) Pupils Should be Taught to:

describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts
locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe (including the location of Russia) and North and South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities