PBS
Nh Pbs: Nature Works: Rivers and Streams
Learn more about Rivers and Streams through this educational resource. This site features photographs, a description, fun facts, and more about this type of freshwater ecosystem.
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.
US Geological Survey
Earth's Water: Rivers and Streams
The USGS explains the definition of a river and how a river is supplied with water. Included is a cross section of a river. Click Home to access the site in Spanish.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: North American Rivers and Their Widths
Rivers are essential to any society. They provide fresh water, recreation, and transportation. Students will analyze the distribution and relationship among North American rivers using this map from NASA. Background information and...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: River and Stream Pollution
What makes our rivers and streams dirty? This brief overview discusses the causes of pollution in rivers and streams and how to solve it.
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.
US Geological Survey
Usgs Earth's Water: Rivers and the Landscape
Describes the formation of rivers and the transport of soil and sediment. Links to related material is provided within the text.
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...
The Wild Classroom
The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Streams and Rivers
Learn about stream and river ecosystems. Find out about plants, animals, adaptations, and conservation efforts.
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers
In the Flow Rate Experiment, students perform hands-on experiments with a common faucet, as well as work with the Engineering Our Water Living Lab (accessible through TeachEngineering.com) to gain a better understanding of flow rate and...
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Gulf of Maine Aquarium: Streams
This site provides extensive information about streams. It gives an in-depth look at what a stream is, the kinds of wildlife that live by streams, and things we can do to protect and prevent pollution of streams.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Streams and Rivers Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes key points about streams and rivers. Includes a few questions to check for understanding.
Idaho State University
Idaho State University: Environmental Geology: Rivers and Flooding
Recognize what physical characteristics create rivers on Earth's surface. Identify where floods occur and what makes them happen.
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...
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Ohio Stream Management Guide: Natural Stream Processes [Pdf]
Provides detailed and technical information and diagrams concerning stream formation, channel shapes, erosional process, and stream management.
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.
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