Teach your students how waterfalls and gorges form by erosion with our colourful model!
Your class will find waterfall and gorge formation easy to understand with our easy to make model. These features usually form in bedrock channels near the headwaters of a river system. First, your students make their models of 3 stages of waterfall and gorge formation out of the colourful parts.
Download and print as many times as you want - forever at no extra cost!
Then they use their models to look at how waterfalls, gorges and plunge pools form at the boundary of harder and softer rock starting with step formation. The model covers waterfalls, gorges, steps, erosion, bedrock channels, undercutting and plunge pools.
Complements our River Drainage Basins model.
Includes full colour Powerpoint class presentation!
Takes about 20 minutes!
Dimensions: 11cm x 5cm x 5cm /4in x 2in x 2in
Download includes: instructions, model templates, and Powerpoint presentation.
All you need: paper, scissors and tape
