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Why do rivers flood? Reading a hydrograph

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Learn to read a storm hydrograph, compare two rivers in the same rain, and explain why a river through a town floods faster than one through fields and woods.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Reading a storm hydrograph
  5. I Do
  6. Hinge Check
  7. We Do
  8. What makes a river flood quickly?
  9. The Ashby and the Calder in the same storm
  10. Compare two hydrographs
  11. Explain why one river floods more quickly
  12. Self-Check
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