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Special News Feature
Floods and Tornadoes
Unusually heavy winter snows and spring rainstorms have produced two destructive forces in the United States this spring.
Help students understand the conditions that combine to produce severe flooding — greater than the typical seasonal floods that farmers have relied on for centuries —
and storms that produce tremendous tornadoes and other severe or violent weather.
Credit: Courtesy of Dan Thomas, U.S. Geological Survey Leveled Books
Fluency Passage
Flooding Picture Cards
Photographs, articles, discussion questions to support instruction Causes of Floods  Flooding Dangers Flooding Fallout Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, The Interactive World Map Learn About La Niña Learn About Levees Mississippi River Watershed Nature v. Concrete Rescue Craft Stranded Animals Comparison of Mississippi River before and after, as taken by Landsat 5 satellite, showing the extent of recent flooding.
Credit: NASA/Matt Radcliff |
