Week 14: Levees

This week's activities:

• Living with Streams: Engineer and Build Your Own Levee (p.92-105)

Build-Your-Own Levee

This activity builds on last week's stream activity to comply with incorporating engineering in science lessons for the Next Generation Science Standards.

Links that may be useful to you for this activity on levees:

• difference between porosity and permeability: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Difference_between_porosity_and_permeability
• porosity and permeability applied to oil & gas production: http://www.geomore.com/porosity-and-permeability-2/
• ways that levees fail: http://www.riverpartners.org/resources/riparian-ecology/veg-levees/levee-failure/
• how levees work (and fail), a simulator: http://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/flooding_flood_risks/levee_simulator.jsp
• levee safety fact sheet (including explanation of sand boils): http://disasterrecovery.sd.gov/documents/leveesafetyfactsheet.pdf

If you miss week 14:

You can not make up these activities, but you still have to do the weekly assignment as best you can and turn it in before the next class period. Read the material in the manual about this activity with care so that you understand what you missed, talk to a classmate to find out more. Worksheets collected for this lab will be listed on the Lab Schedule page and must be turned within a week. Click here for the syllabus information about missing class.

I have uploaded a pdf of the powerpoint presentation that was used for this class onto SacCT (once you get there, click on 'pdf documents' in the left sidebar).

Here are more specifics about the worksheets that were collected:

• p. 103 of your lab manual (Our Preliminary Levee Design)
• Check Your Understanding: Levees (if you missed lab, do the best you can - be sure to read through the activity to see what we did in lab)

 

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