Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Rivers and Streams
The Evergreen Project profiles the natural history of rivers and streams. Topics include watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, erosion, water pollution, and the like.
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy: Planet Earth: Rivers and Lakes
A comprehensive exploration of rivers and lakes, their importance to biodiversity and to humans, how we use them, threats they face, and what is being done to conserve them.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Is River and Stream Erosion?
Learn about several different aspects of river and stream erosion.
Other
Minnesota Lakes, Rivers and Streams
This site gives information about Minnesota rivers and streams, stream flow information, and recreational information as well.
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Rivers & Streams of the World
A great site from The Evergreen Project that provides information about watersheds, how a stream becomes a river, when rivers run into the ocean, longest rivers of the world and much more. There are also other sections of this site that...
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Variable Rivers
In this lesson students will be introduced to rivers and river processes. They will test an isolated variable in rivers and they will test either the amount of water, velocity of water, or steepness of the river bed to determine how...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: Freshwater Ecosystems
At this site from the Missouri Botanical Garden, you can learn about the wide variety of plant and animal life in or around fresh water ecosystems. Click on the links to "wetlands," "Ponds and Lakes," or "Rivers and Streams" to view...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Your River's Health
Students perform a macroinvertebrate survey to gauge the health of a local river. They collect water samples and count macroinvertebrates to learn how the health of a river's ecosystem can be determined by its river insect population.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Stream
This article presents information on streams and various terminology associated with streams. In the article, the difference between intermittent and blue-line streams are discussed. Also, the difference between first-, second-, third-,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Flow Characteristics of the Crow River
Students make observations of a local river, and then formulate a question. Then, through guided inquiry, construct, conduct, and collect data on a question they wish to research. Students keep a field journal of their observations,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Geology of the Credit River at Hidden Valley Park
For this earth science lesson, young scholars investigate the characteristics of the Credit River in an interdisciplinary inquiry based investigation. They will determine the speed the water moves, identify rocks and sediments in the...
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey: Streamgages Measuring Pulse of Our Nation's Rivers [Pdf]
General information on the importance and use of a streamgage to measure and record the water level in a river.
Other
Center for Columbia River History: Promoting the Study of Columbia River
The Center for Columbia River History contains information about a river that spans seven states and a territory in Canada. Understand the environmental factors that contribute to this river.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Rivers
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches about the journey from source to sea about rivers and identifies relevant vocabulary supported by photographs.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Streams and Rivers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Features of streams and rivers.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: All Star River Explorers
An interactive site to teach students how rivers are formed, how they change, and why they are important. Cross-curricular activities in language arts, math, science, social studies, and art, some of which include worksheets to download,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: A River Runs Through It
This two-month project requires a nearby stream or river to use for testing. Students use river monitoring equipment to conduct water tests, fish observation, insect identification and to collect data related to physical properties of...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring Discharge and Flow in the Rum River
Middle schoolers will travel to a small stream and make predictions regarding stream discharge at the point bar and cut bank. They will make conclusions about how velocity affects erosion and discharge.
Other
Virtual Courseware Project: Geology Labs on Line: Virtual River: River Discharge
Learn the basics of rivers in this interactive tutorial.
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Nagt: Variable Rivers
In this activity young scholars will test amount of water, velocity and steepness of a tabletop riverbed to see how it affects a river's depth, width, and delta size.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Using Benthic Marcoinvertebrates to Determine Biodiversity in a River
In this investigation of macroinvertebrates, students will build rock baskets and place them in various parts of a river to collect insects. Students will group insects according to their pollution tolerance and use the PTI to determine...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Lessons on River Ecosystems
Two lessons are designed to provide students with understanding the broad characteristics of a local environmental system and how understanding the system helps inform policy-making about future system sustenance.
World Geography Games
World Geography Games: Rivers
Explore the major rivers of the world through this interactive quiz.
Read Works
Read Works: Birth of a Mighty River
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the Amazon River and its origins. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in drawing conclusions.
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