What is the solution in Bangladesh?

Age 11-14 (KS3)

Full lesson looking at how the Bangladesh government responded to devastating floods in the late 90s. Presentation gives all the background information on types of flood defences, and pupils work in groups to decide which are most cost effective.

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Published 03 Sep 2008

Contributed by Rosie Clark — Contributor Wembley High Technology College

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I found the lesson useful for my yr 9 IGCSE Natural Disaster topic.It will help students visualise the case study in a better way.

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Whats the solution in Bangladesh

1What is the solution in Bangladesh?2Video http://geographyatthemovies.co.uk/rivers.html33 2 1Using the video as a stimulus
Name three reasons for the flooding in Bangladesh in 1998
Name two short term consequence of the flooding in Bangladesh in 1998
Name one long term consequence of the flooding in Bangladesh
4Objectives By the end of the lesson you will be able to:
Define what a flood defence is and describe the difference between soft and hard engineering options.
Explain how flood defences have been used in
Bangladesh.
Evaluate the most successful option for
Bangladesh. 51989 In 1989 the government of
Bangladesh began working
with several international
agencies to produce a flood
action plan which was
hoped would provide a
long term solution to
Bangladesh's flooding
problems
As a result they
introduced a number of
flood defences 6A flood defence is ..
A strategy designed to stop or reduced the severity of a flood 7Hard and soft engineering 8Definition Hard engineering is when a structure is built to
stop a flood from

lesson plan

LESSON PLAN
DATE:
CLASS: 10 ab2
PERIOD: 5

TITLE: Flood defence in Bangladesh

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson students will be able to
Define what a flood defence is and describe the difference between soft and hard engineering options
Explain what flood defences have been used in Bangladesh
Evaluate the most appropriate option for Bangladesh

NC PoS / GCSE / BTEC:
KS4 mixed ability set (range from predicted grades of A*-E however the majority of the class is D/C)
SEN/EAL/G&T:

HOMEWORK:
None set

RESOURCES:
Power point
Grid (3 versions for differentiation)
DME information
DIFFERENTION:

Differentiated activities
DME
High ability blank table and students are expected to answer all the questions
Middle ability some of the answers are modelled in the table students are not expected to complete all the questions
Low ability - Reduced the choice of flood defences to three sentence starters for the questions
ASSESSMENT:
Understanding will be checked of the

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