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Junior science study guide

Study Guide When Good Rivers Turn Bad - Extreme Flooding

Extracts from the Queensland Science Years 1 to 10 Syllabus

Earth and Beyond Strand
Level 1
 (Click on links for direct access to course materials)

1.1 Students identify and describe obvious featuresof the earth and sky(including landforms and clouds)

• Streams
• Floods / Flood Safety
• Cyclone / Tornado Safety

1.2 students descrobe obvious events (including day and night) that occur on earth and in the sky

• Thunderstorms
• Hail
• Lightning

Level 2

2.1 Students identify and describe changes in the obvious features of the earth and the sky

• Tides
• Floods
• Wind

2.2 Students identify and describe short and long term patterns of events

• General Australian Climate
• Drought
• Flood Warnings

Level 3

3.1 Students identify and describe some interactions that occur within systems

• Streams
• Erosion
• Landslides
• Mass wasting activities (web based)

Level 4

4.1 Students recognise and analyse some interactions between systems

• Weather (web based) activities
• storm surges

4.2 Students collect information which illustratesthat changes on earth ...occur on different scales

• streams - local scale
• streams - satellite imagery
• climate (web based) activities

Level 5

5.1 Students explain how present-day features and events can be used to make inferences about past events

• Crater History on Venus (requires PC for freeware supplied)
• Cyclone pressures from satellite imagery(freeware supplied)

5.2 Students infer from data that the events that occur on earth and in the solar system can have affects at other times and places

• El Nino
• Cyclone Formation / Prediction
• Satellite image processing and interpretation (freeware supplied)
  • Hawaii- hidden water
  • the Pyramids -ancient roads
  • Mt. Pinatubo - ash flow direction

Level 6

6.1 students use scientific ideas and theories about interactions ... to explain past and present features and events

• Case Study- Flooding in North Queensland
• Case study open ended task
• Flooding (web-based)activities

Beyond Level 6

DB6.1 Students explain how scientific ideas can be used to predict natural catastropes and help minimise their effects

• Flood prediction and mitigation pros and cons for a debate
• Cyclone Precdiction - factors involved plus time/value of money

DB6.4 Students use the ideas and concepts of science to evaluate ways in which human activity could be modified to create a sustainable future

• Adapt the research sequence and procedures of the flood case study to another sustainability issue ( for example acid sulphate soils or salinity...)
• To what degree should humankind restore vs. modify natural environments if we are to achieve sustainability? Can there be a balance ?