Year 10 teaching Year 5 about River Basins

On May the 8th, 24 Year 10 Geography students from Mr Vernon’s class went to teach Year 5 with the objective to educate them on River Basins. The aims of the lesson were to create and label a river basin, define the main features and landforms in river basin and finally to understand what happens to water when it flows from the start to the end of the river.


The Year 10 students were split into 4 groups and assigned a Year 5 class to go and teach. After a brief explanation of what a river basin is, templates were distributed to students. They were then instructed to locate and draw the main features of a basin onto their templates. Although some of the Year 5 students did not understand at first, we managed to complete the tasks of drawing, cutting and sticking the template into their books. The final product was a fun and creative “pop up model” that lifted out of their book when it was opened.

To reinforce the content; we followed the model making with a couple of exercises such as matching the words to their definitions and completing a missing word paragraph.

We would like to thank all the Year 5 teachers for allowing us into their classrooms and also the students of Year 5 for being so cooperative and good fun to work with.