Mississippi Flooding visit websites below to:
Complete the Investigating: Mississippi Floods Activity Sheet
Create a storyboard of events (see Pupil Example in downloads)
Complete the details, causes and impacts table
Links
Go to National Geographic website http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/pictures/110510-mississippi-river-memphis-tennessee-flood-record-crests-nation/
Go to National Geographic Website http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/03/mississippi-floods-can-be-restrained-with-natural-defenses/
Go to NOAA website http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jan/?n=2011_05_ms_river_flood
Go to BBC News website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13337548
Go Nature website: webs
California Droughts
Watch this video to provide the context for the activity. Go to BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19121807
Pupils should visit websites below to:
Complete the Investigating: California Drought worksheet that explores causes and impacts of Drought. Possible answers are available in Teacher Factsheet in Downloads.
Links
Use these websites to complete the California worksheet:
Go Drought Monitor website http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Home/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA
Go US Drought Portal website http://www.drought.gov/drought/
Go National Drought Mitigation Centre website http://drought.unl.edu/DroughtforKids.aspx
Go Global Warming Isn’t Causing Drought? Website http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/global-warming-isnt-causing-california-drought-report-triggers-storm-n263941
California’s vanishing lakes. Go to Daily Mail website http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2731091/California-s-vanishing-lakes-Before-photos-reveal-shocking-shriveling-effect-state-s-devastating-drought-decades.html
ite http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110513/full/news.2011.289.html