Teaching & Learning Resource Pilot
Fire, Flood And Acid Mud: The Flood Pulse
Catalyst Interactive Edition (01 May 2008) National Curriculum: Year 9 Subjects: Science
Professor Richard Kingsford shows the effect of the flood pulse down the Paroo River, and discusses the effect of regulating the river flows on other parts of the Murray-Darling Basin, eg on bird life and trees.
Format: Video
Segment run time: 6m 51s
Last reviewed: 13/06/2010
Year level: Year 9
Relevance:
Curriculum strands
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Assumed prior learning
Water cycle, reproductive cycles, food chains.
Suggestions for using this resource
1.Year 6 could use this to develop an example of food webs in wetland areas.
2.Year 7 students could research how the reproductive cycles of native species depends on natural events
3.Years 7-9: In units about natural cycles and ecosystems, this is an appropriate stimulus for students to compare advantages and disadvantages of human activity, and the impact scientific research has on community decisions.
Related resources
Internal link: Flood Pulse: Quantum story on inland water birds from 1989 (8 min 56 sec)
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