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