Hiya Jesse
I thought I'd give you a little help to inspire you on your way with the rivers project. I jumped onto Wikipedia and found out a little about rivers in general.
[click on title to the 'river' page]
The River page gives a list on the 10 largest rivers, and also a list of loads of other rivers too. I personally like the
Nile, which runs from Central Afirca all the way to the Mediteranean.
One of my other favourites is the
Yangtze river in China. This is an enourmous river that starts up in Tibet. China has just built one of the largest dams in the world and has raised the water level over 500 feet in places. There is quite alot of imformation on Wikipedia about it, click on the underlined or blue links!
You will find it easier to do the project on rivers with loads of easily available information - for example; rivers that are used for commerce such as the
Mississippi and the
Rhine will be easy to write about - check out there web pages on wikipedia too as a start.
If you want to do some interesting wildlife studies then there are two stunning ancient old rivers the
Amazon in South America that starts in the Andes, and the
Congo in Africa with its amazing gorillas,
bonobo chimpanzees and river elephants.
Remember to click on the blue hyperlinks in wikipedia which will take you to more information - its like treading a path of questions with answers - but remember to bookmark the things that interest you and for your project so that you can find the information again!
Have fun and tell me wich 2 rivers you want to study - then we'll answer the questions that your project requires - like economics, dams, waterfalls, wildlife etc.
Love Dad xx
