TEACHER INFORMATION R27
- QUESTIONS & TASKS
QUESTIONS
1.What are the physical BLOCK DIAGRAM SHOWING RIVER FEATURES (.hot spots 1 to 8
characteristics of the photos… (R1)
River Severn from RIVERS. (Notes on the river Severn with diagrams (same as R20)(R2)
Cressage to the PHOTO SET OF PHYSICAL RIVER FEATURES (R3)
Freebridge? HOW TO DRAW A FIELDSKETCH (R4)
2.What are the causes of ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY ..FLOODING PREVENTION
flooding in the area? (Power Point presentation) (R5)
3.What hazards occur as a ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY.. FLOODING PHOTO’S
result of flooding? (Power point presentation) (R6)
4. How are people & the HOW ARE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY FLOODING ?
environment affected -activity relating to 8 groups of people (R7)
by flooding?
Web link (BBC Ironbridge Floods ) & to ( Building repair work..
after the fl (R8)
5.How can the flood risk HOW SOON WILL I HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE MY HOUSE STARTS
be predicted & managed? TO FLOOD? - Activity river data. Rainfall ,river response, lag time ,
discharge…EXCEL GRAPHS (R9)
Web link (BBC Weather-Flooding) and to SLIDE 3 power point
presentation FLOODING PREVENTION (R10)
6.What are the option to PHOTO’S FLOOD PREVENTION 2004 & POWER POINT
reduce flooding in the PRESENTATION..FLOODING PREVENTION (R11)
Ironbridge Gorge?
7.Why do people live in areas WHAT ARE THE REASONS FOR DEVELOPING LAND ON A
at risk from flooding? FLOOD PLAIN? - Activity…15 true or false statements ..(R12)
TASK SHEETS
Ironbridge Emergency Flood IRONBRIDGE EMERGENCY FLOOD WARNING PLAN (R13)
Economic Issues COST V BENEFIT (R14)
Annotated field sketches GEOGRAPHY PHOTO & FIELDSKETCH TASKS (R15)
Photograph descriptions THE CHANGING RIVER SEVERN
–changes over 40 years at Leighton (R16)
Morphological map A MORPHOLOGICAL MAP –a map excercise (R17)
MAPS (all to print to A4)
OS MAP with a link to MORPHOLOGICAL MAP in R17 (R18)
PHOTO’S (all to print as sheet of small pics to A4)
Historical floods (R19)
Recent floods (R19)
Flood prevention (R19)
Physical river features Slides & digital images of river severn. (R20)
NOTE: some used in R1 & R2
VIDEO LINKS & PRESENTATIONS
Exploring issues of flooding (Basically lots of pictures of flooding)Power point-Environmental agency)
(R21)
Info on flood prevention (prevention methods) (Power point ) (R22)
NOTE ;THE TWO ITEMS ABOVE ARE ON THE SAME CD
PRODUCED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
VOCABULARY
List of words VOCABULARY LIST (R23)
Puzzle activity CROSSWORD (R24)
Puzzle activity WORD & DEFINITION MATCH (R25)
WEB LINKS (R26)
NOTE: Original web link titles were Circa.org.uk flooding …Now… Building repair work..after the floods
…Now…. Living with flooding in the UK.
TEACHER INFORMATION (this sheet) (R27)
2. TEACHING NOTES & GUIDANCE