Tag Archives: flooding

Designing Houses in the Classroom to Cope With Our New Weather Conditions

Posted on August 9, 2021 by devongeography

How will our homes cope with all of the changes being brought about by climate change? Flooding, sea level rise, heat waves, wild fires, gale-force winds can all provide threats for the Englishman’s castle. Students can be very creative when … Continue reading →

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How Will Rising Sea Levels Affect London?

Posted on August 7, 2021 by devongeography

Last week saw some pretty serious thunderstorms across southern England, leaving many areas of our capital city experiencing flash flooding. Residents of Walthamstow, Hackney Wick and Camberwell found stations submerged and local roads turned into rivers. This begs the question of … Continue reading →

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Web Resources for the Classroom – Web Links 3: Rivers & Flooding

Posted on January 11, 2019 by devongeography

Previous blogs in April and November started this series of web resources for the classroom – outlining lists for the themes of ‘Population’ and ‘Weather & Climate’. This time, for Web Links 3, I have put together a list of … Continue reading →

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Natural Hazards Data For The Classroom

Posted on July 6, 2018 by devongeography

I came across these resources on natural disasters on a web site run by Munich Reinsurance. There are a number of documents that can be downloaded for free – and they contain a lot of useful statistical information that might … Continue reading →

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Natural Disasters Data For the Classroom

Posted on March 22, 2017 by devongeography

Here is a really useful resource for any geographers teaching about natural disasters. On the ‘Prevention Web’ web site (in the resources section) are a number of reports and data sets about natural disasters around the world. They are all … Continue reading →

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Giant Sausage To Protect Dawlish Warren

Posted on December 8, 2016 by devongeography

There are some excellent opportunities for fieldwork or class-based studies using recent decisions made to control flooding in the Exe estuary in Devon. The Environment Agency and Teignbridge District Council are working together on a new beach management scheme at … Continue reading →

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Floods Damage and Flood Protection on Exmoor

Posted on November 30, 2016 by devongeography

I took a trip to my beloved Exmoor at the weekend to check out one of my favourite spots – Tarr Steps. Nearly a week ago, Storm Angus brought some serious rain (and snow) to the moor, and the resulting … Continue reading →

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Floating Topicality – Reacting To Geography In The News

Posted on November 21, 2016 by devongeography

One thing I really miss since retiring is last-minute planning of lessons in response to ‘geography in the news’ events – the principle of ‘floating topicality’, a term I first heard used by  Jeff Stansfield, former geography advisor for Hampshire. … Continue reading →

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Using Live River Flow Data to Investigate Storm Abigail

Posted on November 16, 2015 by devongeography

After following the progress of Storm Abigail – our first weather system to be given a name – track across the UK this weekend, I decided to take a closer look at some of the river systems in the north … Continue reading →

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