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Living with floods: Storm Desmond, Cumbria 2015

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  • 33 marks
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Question types: calculation, multiple choice, true or false, sorting, matching.

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Use the real case of Storm Desmond to find out where Cumbria flooded, why the flooding was so serious, and how people have responded in the short and long term.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — Where did Storm Desmond flood in Cumbria?
  5. Teach — Why was the flooding so serious?
  6. Task — Sorting the impacts of the flood
  7. Hinge Check
  8. Teach — How did people respond?
  9. Task — What do the rainfall figures show?
  10. Self-Check
  11. Task — Explain the causes of the flooding
  12. Homework
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