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Year 4

Extreme weather: flooding (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)

I can explain why more extreme weather leading to flooding can affect environments.

New
New
Year 4

Extreme weather: flooding (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability)

I can explain why more extreme weather leading to flooding can affect environments.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Flooding occurs when an area of land is covered with water, especially from rain.
  2. Floods can cause damage to crops, when air cannot get the the roots and they rot.
  3. Floods affect some parts of the world more than others.
  4. The air all around our planet is warming up, and warmer air can hold more water.
  5. The extra water in the air falls as extra rain, and can cause flooding.

Common misconception

Children may think that it doesn't rain very much in countries with warmer climates.

Through the lesson, and drawing on children from other countries in your class, discuss the rainfall and weather to illustrate this is not the case. The data within the slides will help illustrate this.

Keywords

  • Flooding - Flooding is the covering or submerging of normally dry land with a large amount of water.

  • Crop - A crop is a plant that is grown to be sold, often as food.

  • Waterlogged - Land which is waterlogged is full of water or almost covered by a layer of water.

  • Extreme - Extreme means very large in amount; much more than normal.

  • Climate - Climate is weather patterns over a long period of time.

You may wish to alter which countries you focus on, linking to personal hertitage amongst the group or countries being studied in other lessons. Allowing the children access to secondary research to find out about other countries and imapct of flooding would add to the lesson.
Teacher tip

Equipment

A news report is provided in the additional materials if the children do not have access to secondary sources to do their own research.

Content guidance

  • Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2024), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which part of the plant can you see in the image?
An image in a quiz
flower
petal
Correct answer: roots
leaves
Q2.
Rain, sun, wind, snow and hail are all types of...
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: weather
Q3.
Which of these pieces of equipment would you use to measure temperature?
An image in a quiz
force meter
weighing scales
tape measure
Correct answer: thermometer
measuring jug
Q4.
Put these temperatures in order of hottest to coldest.
An image in a quiz
1 - 40 °C
2 - 37 °C
3 - 22 °C
4 - 12 °C
5 - 0 °C
6 - - 5 °C
Q5.
Match the equipment to the thing it measures.
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer:measuring cylinder,volume

volume

Correct Answer:tape measure,distance

distance

Correct Answer:stopwatch,time

time

Q6.
If we were using a rain gauge, what would we be measuring?
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amount of sunshine
How cold it was.
Correct answer: amount of rain
How windy it was.

6 Questions

Q1.
occurs when land that is usually dry is covered with water, often as a result of heavy rain.
An image in a quiz
Correct Answer: Flooding, Floods
Q2.
What can happen to crops when they are waterlogged?
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Correct answer: They are damaged as the air cannot get to the roots.
The crops grow really well as they need lots of water.
Nothing, as crops are plants and they need water.
Correct answer: The roots of the crops may rot.
Q3.
True or false? The air all around our planet is cooling down, and cooler air can hold more water.
true
Correct answer: false
Q4.
The average air temperature around our planet is...
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staying the same.
falling.
Correct answer: rising.
Q5.
Why does warm air cause flooding?
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Warm air causes less water to evaporate and rivers then flood.
Farmers use more water on their crops which causes fields to flood.
Correct answer: Warmer air can hold more water. The extra water in the air falls as extra rain.
People are hot so they need more rain to keep themselves cool.
Warmer air makes the land turn to water.
Q6.
Which of the following statements are true?
Correct answer: The average temperature of the air around our planet is rising.
The average temperature of the air around our planet is falling.
Correct answer: Warmer air leads to more rainfall.
Warmer air leads to less rainfall.
Air temperature doesn't affect rainfall
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