Stream Order Lesson PowerPoint, River and Water Unit

• Stream Order: A classification system for
rivers.
Copyright © 2010 Ryan P. Murphy

• RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.

-Nice neat notes that are legible and use indentations
when appropriate.
-Example of indent.
-Skip a line between topics
-Don’t skip pages
-Make visuals clear and well drawn.

• RED SLIDE: These are notes that are very
important and should be recorded in your
science journal.
• BLACK SLIDE: Pay attention, follow
directions, complete projects as described
and answer required questions neatly.

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Stream Order: A classification system forStream Order: A classification system for
rivers.rivers.

• Activity! Please sketch this river in your
journal.

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Stream Order = 4

• Activity! Try this one on your own.

• Answer: Headwaters
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• When two first order streams meet =
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• Forms second order stream.
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• When two second order streams meet?
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• Forms a third order stream.
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• When a third order meets a second order?
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• Stays a third order stream..
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• Answer: Stream Order of 3
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Stream Order = 3

• What numbers are under the boxes?
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• You can now complete this question.

• Activity! Designing a River
– The class will design a river from Headwaters to
the Mouth/Delta putting as much information
from the sheets as possible into your work.
– The river will be needed on an upcoming
assessment.
– Each group of four or more gets four sheets.
Plan the width of the river accordingly.
– Your section should line up with the group down
river and upriver.
– Only use light colored pencils “everybody”
– Worth a two class grades (your part, your groups
part.)

• Example of possibilities.
– Groups will need to collaborate to make the
river reach the ocean.

• The groups sketch out the path of the
river.

• The groups sketch out the path of the
river.
– Your group must begin and end with the
groups in front and behind.

• The headwater group starts the process
working together by creating many small
streams that flow into one river.

• The downriver group must include a few
tributaries that make the river larger.

• The floodplain should slowly meander
through the groups pages and connect to
the mouth / delta.

• The mouth / delta should mix with the
ocean with many branches and islands /
sediment.

= Text

• Break into groups of 4. Read the information
packet provided in the rivers folder provide
some info to your river page.
Learn more:
http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/

• Each student is responsible for one part of a
large project.
– You get an individual grade and a group grade.
– Your individual grade is based on your portion
and behavior.

The following is a list of vocabulary you will need
when you create the river from the mountains to
the sea.
• Deposition
• Braided Stream
• Alluvial Fan
• Levee
• Estuary
• Riparian Area
• Tributary
• Waterfall
• Watershed
• Meander
• Oxbow Lake
• Old-Channel
• Cutbank
• Riffles
• Pool
• Terraces
• Watershed

Headwaters
Downriver
Floodplain

Headwaters
Downriver
Floodplain
Mouth / Delta

• This PowerPoint is only small part of my Rivers,
Lakes, and Water Quality Unit that I offer on TpT.
– This unit includes a four part 2,150 slide PowerPoint
roadmap.
– 13 page bundled homework, modified version, 8
pages of lesson notes, built-in visual quizzes, review
game, 23 video links, hands-on activities with
instructions and questions, crossword, rubrics,
projects, answer keys, readings, materials list,
curriculum guide, and much more.
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Areas of Focus within The Rivers and Water Quality Unit:
Watersheds, Rivers of the United States, Sections of a River, Parts of
River (Vocabulary), Stream Order, Erosion and Deposition, Water
Quality, Chemical Properties of Water, Bio-Indicators of Water Quality
(EPT richness), Physical Properties of Water Quality, Rivers and
Flooding, Factors that Control Flooding, Types of Flooding, Tsunami’s,
Wetlands, Flood Prevention, Levees, Dams and Ecosystem, Importance
of Dams, Impacts of Dams, Hydropower, Parts of Dam, Salmon (Life
Cycle), Systems of Help Salmon, Fish (General), Layering in a Lake,
Lake Turnover, Nutrients and Lakes.
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