SC Flood 2015
What is a Flood?
Learning Objectives:
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Define flooding as involving heavy rainfall or snowmelt.
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List three types of flooding.
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Identify reasons why humans tend to settle in floodplains.
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Explain that engineers design dams, dikes and levees to control flooding.
Sources
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/10/06/73467892/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2015/10/05/south-carolina-flooding-climate-change/73385778/
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/weather/2015/10/05/73386054/
http://www.thestate.com/news/local/article38128845.html
http://www.thestate.com/news/business/article38137158.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/10/05/the-meteorology-behind-sout
h-carolinas-catastrophic-1000-year-rainfall-event/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/us/south-carolina-east-coast-rain-flood/
http://observer.com/2015/10/south-carolina-flooding-is-sixth-1000-year-rainfall-in-the-u-s-since-2010/
http://earthsky.org/earth/1000-year-rainfall-hits-south-carolina
http://info.scdot.org/Storm/StormDropOff/StormClosingsMap.pdf
http://educators.brainpop.com/bp-topic/floods/
http://focusonfloods.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Flood-Worksheets.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20060508102258/http://admin.www.weatherclassroom.com/upload/materials/S
S_Floods.pdf
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/pdf/2307_flood.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/2307_flood.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20130415002702/http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/teachers/floods/flood
s_unit.html#2
SC Flood 2015
What is a Flood?
Using the sources listed above read and research about floods. Use the information you learn to illustrate
answers for the flood
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Complete a KWL chart on Floods
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What is a flood? What leads to a flood?
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What did you learn from creating a flood?
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A plan to prevent future flood damage.
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Describe your experience during the flood.
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Create a safety poster, drawing or flyer for a town that is located on a floodplain. What
would they say to help the people of the town understand more about flood danger and
what the citizens can do to help protect their town from a flood.
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