Drainage Basin System - KS3 Geography Extension Pack

Four ready-to-use enrichment activities for KS3 Geography students who’ve mastered the basics of the drainage basin system - ideal for extension tasks, homework, cover lessons, or stretching high achievers. No preparation required. Suitable for students aged 11-14.

A drainage basin is the area of land that a river and its tributaries collect water from. Geographers treat it as an open system, because water enters it as inputs and leaves it as outputs.

Each activity targets higher-order thinking: a 12-term vocabulary matching exercise covering terms from interception and stemflow to percolation and evapotranspiration; a 25-mark challenge quiz with multiple choice, true/false, written questions and a river-level data table to interpret; a 20-mark case study on the Slowing the Flow flood scheme at Pickering in North Yorkshire; and a creative Teach It Back task where students write a Journey of a Raindrop guide for a Year 5 pupil, assessed with a provided rubric. Full answer keys and marking guidance are included for all activities. Comes as a PDF and an editable Word file (DOCX).

Pairs with the main 100-mark KS3 Geography worksheet on this topic, also on TES. Buy both together as a complete lesson bundle and save £1.

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