Teaching the levees pdf

What happens if a levee is decertified or cannot be certified, and how does this impact femas accreditation process. Teaching the levees will be distributed by tc press free of charge to 30,000 high school and college teachers, and community, civic and religious groups around the country by the end of august, in time for the second anniversary of katrina. Analyzing levees activity file new jersey center for. This article also contains information on distinguishing the easily confused words leveeand levy. Composition forum 34, summer 2016 first, do no harm. An appreciation for and understanding of earths water is important for students as consumers of this critically important resource. Annabel gray, at queens park school, inspires her students to perform scenes from king lear at the local secondary school.

Teaching intersectionality and environmental justice in our. How does levee certification differ from levee accreditation. Hurricanes introduction kids find weather fascinating. Department of transportation rapid and nondestructive assessment of levees for strength and liquefaction resistance project january 1, 2015 july 31, 2017 clinton wood, ph. Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office. More on this type of levee can be found in the article on drystone walls. This article is a pedagogical case study reflecting on the teaching the levees curriculum crocco. Write a list that compares the materials used in your levee to materials or concepts used in actual levee design. Specific units from the teaching the levees curriculum were selected. Some levees have lost integrity over time due to settlement, erosion, floodrelated distress, or burrowing animals. Levees adjacent to drainage canals or perennial channels are not raised on the river side of the embankment because excess moisture would prevent meaningful compaction of the fill.

Many towns and cities would be uninhabitable without them. Erosion in geomechanics applied to dams and levees wiley. Keep reading to learn the definition of both levy and levee. Another flood protection structure is the floodwall, which the federal emergency management agency considers. The content you are about to access is the property of and copywritten by flinn scientific. In 2014, deborah harrismoore was teaching at the university of california, santa barbara ucsb when elliot rodger murdered six ucsb students and injured fourteen others before turning his gun on himself. A teaching tool to initiate discussions in undergraduate teaching of health disparities show all authors william d. Fema recognizes, however, that advances can enable fema to use improved models and tools to. Mar 04, 20 stephane bonelli is a research professor at irstea french environmental sciences and technologies research institute. Dikes are often built to reclaim, or take back, land that would naturally be underwater. This website and its content is subject to our terms and conditions.

A requiem in four actsa package that includes the dvdset of spike lees documentary film along with a 100page curriculum book supported by online resourcesis designed to facilitate a conversation about. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Watch how you can do a literacy analysis with your high school students using evidence and arguments. Teaching intersectionality and environmental justice in our classrooms particularly given the results of the latest report released by the intergovernmental panel on climate change, we must ask ourselves some critical questions about how we prepare our children to face the world they will be inheriting, and. Irrigation, flood control, for a water supply, and for the generation of hydroelectricity. People build levees to keep rivers or lakes from flooding lowlying land during storms.

Big storms, snow days and wind enough to fly a kite all hold their attention. The waterside surface of levees is often covered with layers of rocks, known as riprap, to protect them from erosion, while vegetation is periodically cleared to prevent decreased channel flow and ease inspections. Teaching tolerance provides free resources to educatorsteachers, administrators, counselors and other practitionerswho work with children from kindergarten through high school. Measures which are intended to reduce the intensity of hazard effects by modifying the natural environment.

Today, levees continue to be a major flood management feature throughout california and the west. Levees, otherwise known as flood embankments or dikes, are a vital part of modern flood risk management. Adrienne lafrance is the executive editor of the atlantic. The international levee handbook the international levee handbook ilh offers international good practice on levees based on current knowledge and experience from six countries in one single, comprehensive handbook. This package is produced in cooperation with hbo and with funding from the rockefeller foundation. Using when the levees broke teaching the levees to teach middle school students about empathy and social justice karen thomasbrown. Examples include dams, reservoirs, dikes, levees, seawalls, bulkheads, revetments, high flow diversions, and spillways.

This valuable teaching tool can be used to stimulate profound and searching discussions of topics. An embankment raised to prevent a river from overflowing. The resource includes numerous differentiated worksheets to assist pupils of varying ability in their understanding. Hurricanes, one of natures most destructive forces, are particularly interesting and lend themselves to independent exploration. Levee definition is a reception held by a person of distinction on rising from bed. They happen during hurricane season, which is from june 1st until november 30th in the atlantic ocean and from may 15th until november 30th in the pacific ocean. Levees can be permanent earthworks or emergency constructions often of sandbags built hastily in a flood emergency. Though real levees are not constructed with duct tape and cotton balls, these items represent ideas or materials that might be used in real life. Young students respond well to the powerful stories and rich language of shakespeare. To describe the characteristics of floodplains and explain how levees are formed. We drive the advancement of education by distributing our work across. The without levee approach is an effective tool to identify flood risk behind uncertified levees. Using when the levees broketeaching the levees to teach middle school students about empathy and social justice karen thomasbrown university of michigan, dearborn this action research study reports on an important unit of study having evidence of success.

By accessing this content, you agree to not share or disseminate this content electronically or by any other means and to share your user information with flinn scientific. The film, which won the george polk award for television documentary in 2007, concentrates on new orleans, with. Formation of levees and floodplains, features of the lower. Jo fife, drama teacher at wimbledon park primary school, works with two classes on hamlet, learning the meaning of the soliloquy to be, or not to be. This particular lesson covers the common core state standards, specifically key ideas and details, production and distribution of writing and comprehension and collaboration. This curriculum, funded by the rockefeller foundation and created by educators from teachers college, columbia university, takes the hbo documentary film spike lees when the levees broke, as impetus, touchstone, and text for democratic dialogues in schools, colleges, and community organizations. Using common formative assessments improves teaching and learning.

The historical essay and curriculum units that comprise this book are. Levees have also been built as field boundaries and as military defences. Teachers college created a curriculum to support teachers using the case of hurricane katrina as touchstone for lessons about. Lessons from the levees teachers college, columbia.

Article information, pdf download for when the levees broke. The people of new orleans depend on engineers to build strong levees to protect their city from the ocean waters that surround it. Aqa gcse living with the physical environment physical landscapes in the uk river landscapes in the uk. Natures wildest storms by erin ryan you may already know that hurricanes are major tropical storms that can cause devastating waves, wind, and rain. In this lesson, students evaluate which of these metaphors most aptly applies to the katrina exodus from new orleans. Using when the levees broketeaching the levees to teach.

The historical essay and curriculum units that comprise this book are designed to stimulate serious deliberation about the meaning of hurricane katrina and the breach of the levees. Teaching the levees a curriculum for democratic dialogue and civic engagement margaret smith crocco, editor teachers college columbia university new york 7. This is a 500 slide powerpoint presentation with builtin class notes red slides, many builtin handson activities with directions, questions, stream table activity about levees stream table optional, class project town meeting role playing project about a dam, many video links, 3 page homew. How are levees different from dams and other flood.

Sep 18, 2017 this lesson 2 hour lesson looks at how flood plains and levees are formed. This system was a network consisting of approximately 560 mi. It includes a dvd of the spike lee documentary and a curriculum developed by. This work is dedicated to the residents of the gulf states, who survived the ravages of hurricane katrina by helping one another. Water added upstream at different flow rates and to different riverbed configurations simulates different potential flood conditions. Femas approach to levees answers to frequently asked questions q. The hurricane also brought a crisis of conscience to many americans as they confronted, with the rest. Like dams, levees and dikes have a simple but important job. It is estimated that there are several hundreds of thousands of kilometres of levees in europe and the usa alone. Pdf perils of using hurricane katrina to teach engineering ethics. But should cover most new gcse specs no textbook required.

Tes global ltd is registered in england company no 02017289 with its registered office at 26 red lion square london wc1r 4hq. The models are made using modeling clay in aluminum baking pans placed on a slight incline. In this activity, you will be the engineers designing a prototype a small model of a new levee to protect your city from future flooding. Teaching intersectionality and environmental justice in. A curriculum for democratic dialogue and civic engagement. The state of iowa had to levy funds to repair levees damaged by flooding due to. A curriculum for democratic dialogue and civic engagement tuesday, august 30, 2005 6 a. Levees along constricted rivers can pose major problems. He has over 20 years of teaching and research experience, and has been a member of the icold international commission on large dams european working group on internal erosion since 2005. Artificial levees are typically needed to control the flow of rivers meandering through broad, flat floodplains.

Edlab designed the online site and digital resources for the teaching the levees curriculum project. An exercise in democratic dialogue published by western cedar, 2008 further guidance to educators about creating classroom climates that make an effort to. The teacher uses a word wall and an inference wall to help students predict what will happen in the chapter. The study of hurricanes rewards the young scholar with. This curriculum, created by educators at teachers college, columbia university and supported by the rockefeller foundation, takes spike lees when the levees broke, as impetus, touchstone, and text for democratic dialogues in schools, colleges, and community organizations. Jan, 2018 the word levee pronounced levee is an americanism that is, a word used in the united states, but not anywhere else in the world. In 2014, deborah harrismoore was teaching at the university of california, santa barbara ucsb when elliot rodger murdered six ucsb students and injured. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the documentary film when the levees broke can be used to initiate discussions about health disparities in an undergraduate health education course. This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Pdf spike lees fourhour hbo documentary film when the levees broke about. Students explore the impact of changing river volumes and different floodplain terrain in experimental trials with table topsized riverbed models.

Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants. A card annotation task is used to explain how levees are produced through successive floods. It should come as no surprise that levee originated in the great port city of new orleans, louisiana, at the mouth of the floodprone mississippi river. Protecting our city with levees activity teachengineering.

Levee vs levy do you know the difference between levy and levee. Evolution of the levee system along the lower mississippi. This is a 27 slide powerpoint that presents information about levees and dams. When the levees broke, suggest that the katrina displacement, having been entirely involuntary and affording little opportu nity for returning to new orleans, might more aptly be com pared with the slave trade. It also describes how hydroelectricity is generated. This article is a pedagogical case study reflecting on the teaching the levees curriculum crocco, 2007, written in the aftermath of hurricane. In developing, using, and analyzing common formative assessments, the english language arts content team at covington middle school. Levee, any low ridge or earthen embankment built along the edges of a stream or river channel to prevent flooding of the adjacent land. This article discusses a curriculum created by a group from teachers college, columbia university in response to the film when the levees broke about hurricane katrina and its aftermath. For example, dikes may be used to create a new area of dry land along a seacoast. Moral outrage and teaching about hurricane katrina. Artificial levees are usually built by piling soil, sand, or rocks on a cleared, level surface. Levees can also be artificially created or reinforced.

Water is one of earths most important resources and covers threequarters of earths surface. Lessons from the levees teachers college, columbia university. Toward a new conceptual framework for teaching about flood risk in introductory geoscience courses tim lutza abstract an analysis of physical geology textbooks used in introductory courses shows that there is a systematic lack of clarity. The curriculum invites participants from all points of view to move beyond katrina and new orleans to ask. Levees are usually parallel to the way the river flows, so levees can help direct the flow of the river.

Much of downtown and east new orleans is underwater, depth unknown at this time. The san joaquin river levees, planned and designed in the 1950s, for instance, were designed to provide a lower level of protection because they were guarding agricultural areas and not developed housing. Toward a new conceptual framework for teaching about flood. In many cases, the levees contain deteriorating infrastructure or old penetrations, and may also have woody vegetation that represents the last remnants of oncethriving riparian. Existing homes abutted the land side of the drainage canal levees in new orleans by the time the corps of engineers began analyzing them in the 1960s. Teaching shakespeare in a way young students can understand. University of michigan, dearborn this action research study reports on an important unit of study having evidence of success. Katrina brought enormous destruction and loss of life to alabama, mississippi, and louisiana.