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Pentecost Story

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A great 'Arty' type of video about floods with an environmental theme. media type="youtube" key="hblScZl90Rg?fs=1" height="349" width="425"

Amazing Flood Tool

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[] teacher notes available. Also a flood explorer tool []

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The U.S. Geological Survey provides scientific information intended to help educate the public about natural resources, natural hazards, geospatial data, and issues that affect our quality of life. Discover selected online resources, including lessons, data, maps, and more, to support teaching, learning, education (K-12), and university-level inquiry and research.[]

Sinking City Of Venice [] This companion Web site to the NOVA program Sinking City of Venice shows the threat that Venice is under from rising tides, and describes one proposal to solve the problem - mobile gates placed at the entrances to Venice's lagoon. It uses movies and animations to show the causes of the recurrent flooding of the city. The Teacher's Guide contains a printable activity and an online activity

Emergency Management For Schools [] This website is a comprehensive resource on emergency management for Australian students and teachers, from late primary school to late secondary school. Resources include an interactive media game (webquest), actual student experiences and lesson plans aimed at teaching learners how to be ready for an emergency. Ten lesson plans cover 10 topics including: floods

Extreme Weather Heroes [] Extreme Weather Heroes highlights the growing risk of extreme weather and the need to get young people into emergency volunteering. Learn how to best prepare for more intense floods

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News Online

May 2011 Engineering Solutions for future prevention for Brisbane - very helpful [|Engineering_solutions_for_flood_mitigation_in_Brisbane.pdf]

BCC Website - history of Brisbane settlement []

SEQ water - current dam levels etc []

a site on the ABC News has a fantastic mapping program that allows you to see firsthand the impact of the floods across Brisbane and surrounding regions. As a bonus, click on the larger map (and the drop down box to 13 Jan 2011) and students can use the tool to see their own street/house in high res detail, seeing how close the floods may have come to their neighbourhood and even their own property. [] just realised it takes you to the same ABC images already posted ... however I had never clicked on the icon where it says 'larger map' ... wow

ABC's aerial photos taken over Brisbane reveal the scale of flood devastation across dozens of suburb and tens of thousands of homes and businesses. Hover over each satellite photo to view the devastation caused by flooding. There are two pages of photographs []

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de Bono's Thinking Hats

SEQ Water - map of river and Wivenhoe Dam

==**Vuvox ** == Create interactive slideshows.... media type="custom" key="9334306" Here is one I created as a trial ... I love it! (Linda) media type="custom" key="9335270"