Learning resources: Flooding

Learning in, learning about and learning for the natural environment

These education resources share suggestions to help your learners understand the concept of flooding.

All the activities and games will enable your learners to progress in the ways described in the four purposes of the Curriculum for Wales. Curriculum links are included in the documents, and all the activities will help you deliver many aspects of the cross curricular skills within the Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) and Digital Competence Framework (DCF).

Supporting your planning and curriculum design

Our 'supporting your planning an curriculum design - flooding' document is available to help you to identify learning needs and progression, and to develop a learning plan.

• Supporting your planning and curriculum design – flooding

Flooding: an overview

Our information note provides an overview of what flooding is, why it happens, and discusses the different types of flood.

• Information note - Flooding: Overview

How to prepare for a flood

This activity shares suggestions to encourages learners to think about what they would do to prepare for a flood event and encourages them be flood ready.

• Activity plan – How to prepare for a flood
  
• Resource cards – Organisations that can help with flooding
  
• Information note – What goes in your flood kit?
  
• Resource cards - What goes in your flood kit?

Writing a flood plan

This activity challenges learners to write a flood plan, allowing individuals or groups to prepare for flooding, supporting them to respond quickly should a flood occur.

• Activity plan – Writing a flood plan
  
• Template – Personal flood plan
  
• Template – School flood plan

The dangers of flood water

This activity focuses on the hazards hidden within flood water and the risks and dangers they present.

• Activity plan – The dangers of flood water
  
• Information note – What’s in flood water?

Impacts of flooding

This activity shares ideas to support learners to identify the immediate and long-term impacts of flooding.

• Activity plan – Impacts of flooding
  
• Resource cards - Impacts of flooding

Investigating the emotional and psychological effects of flooding

This activity shares ideas to help learners discuss and consider the emotional and psychological effects of flooding.

• Activity plan - Investigating the emotional and psychological effects of flooding
  
• Resource cards - Investigating the emotional and psychological effects of flooding

Tune into a podcast

Our 10-part podcast series breaks down flood risk management in a way that’s easy to understand. Search ‘Cyfoeth: The Natural Resources Wales Environment Podcast’ on your favourite podcast app.

Check your flood risk

You could ask your learners to check the risk of flooding to an area using our interactive tool. The chance is always there – this year, next year and in the future.

Check flood warnings

Search for flood warnings and alerts.

Check river levels, rainfall and sea data

We publish the information about river levels so people living in flood risk areas are better informed and can decide what actions to take as the water levels change. Up to 13 months of historical rainfall and tidal data for gauging stations around Wales is also available.

River levels, rainfall and sea data.