Gorgeous Geography - a nice idea with a Google Earth overlay
http://gorgeousgeography.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/flood-june-2007/
See also the Sky News page
JUNE 2007 : WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN YORKSHIRE (New Case Study)
Updated November 2007 - watch out for the next steps in 2008 if some projects develop as planned...
Report on flooding failures...has some comments to make on the role of the Environment Agency
The Environment Agency is the government agency charged with flood protection (river and marine) from flooding
There was major flooding in parts of the country in June 2007
The area that was most affected was the area of South Yorkshire which includes Sheffield (including Meadowhall), Rotherham and Doncaster, across as far as Hull. This is my home area, and I know a lot of the areas that were affected...
Some useful places for resources include: Geographical Association page which was set up very quickly...
http://www.geography.org.uk/resources/june2007floods/ - this is likely to become a standard case study for a large part of the UK's schools, assuming you can fit it into the CONCEPT LED curriculum... I know that publishers are already rewriting books to fit this case study in...
Hint: If you have Sky, and some major event has happened in a part of the country where you don't live, make sure that you check out the regional news magazines at around 6.30 pm that evening for useful video material...
Added a new YOU TUBE page of videos on the flood... Download them with ZAMZAR for classroom use.
Gorgeous Geography - a nice idea with a Google Earth overlay
http://gorgeousgeography.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/flood-june-2007/
See also the Sky News page
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A very large selection of YOU TUBE videos is also available - there's a link from Melanie's page above to some of these - I like the one where the police van gets stuck. Remember Tony's guide to ZAMZAR conversions - there is also a series of BBC News articles:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6255522.stm - a useful article on Winn Gardens in Sheffield, which featured on the local news...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6254960.stm - cost of floods likely to top £1 billion !
There is also a useful book which has been published by the Sheffield Star. I have a copy of that too.
"The Great Flood" - Compiled and written by Martin Smith (At Heart Ltd, 2007)
SHEFFIELD FLOODING PAGE - Rob Hindle Poetry
A link to an earlier flood, caused by a very different event...
Check out the poem samples...