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Floodplains, levees and estuaries

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Find out how a river builds a wide, flat floodplain and raised banks called levees, what happens where a river meets the sea, and why people still use land that floods.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook — Land That Floods
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — Floodplain and Levees
  5. Teach — The Exe Estuary at Low Tide
  6. I Do — How Levees Form
  7. Hinge Check
  8. We Do — How a Floodplain Forms
  9. Floodplains: Benefits and Risks
  10. Explain the Lower Course
  11. Self-Check — A Full-Mark Explanation
  12. Plenary — One Word
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