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Title: Overflowing the Banks
Url: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/education/activities/2307_flood.html
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Description: This teaching activity illustrates how levees on the Mississippi River exacerbated flood damage in St. Louis during the Great Flood of l993. Students build a model of a river system and observe the results of flooding without levees, with wetlands (sponges), and with levees. Part of a teacher's guide accompanying a NOVA special aired on PBS.
LC Classification: Bibliography. Library science. Information resources (General) -- Subject bibliography -- Engineering -- Special topics, A-Z -- Floods and flood control
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation -- Physical geography -- Hydrology. Water -- Ground and surface waters -- Rivers. Stream measurements
Geography. Anthropology. Recreation -- Physical geography -- Hydrology. Water -- Ground and surface waters -- Rivers. Stream measurements -- Floods
History (America) -- United States local history -- Missouri -- Regions, counties, etc., A-Z -- Rivers
GEM Subject: Science -- Engineering
Science -- Ecology
Science -- Earth science
Science -- Instructional issues
Social studies -- United States history
Social studies -- Geography
Science -- Natural history
Key Concept: Geography -- Floods and flooding
Resource Type: Instructional Material
Instructional Material -- Lesson/Lesson Plan
Instructional Material -- Instructor Guide/Manual
Format: Document -- PDF
Document -- HTML
Audience: Educator
Education Level: High School
Higher Education
Higher Education -- Undergraduate (Lower Division)
Language: English
Rights: WGBH Educational Foundation
Access Rights: Free access
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