1.5 & 1.6 The Dutch Landscape & Water Knocking

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1.5 & 1.6: 

The Dutch Landscape and Her Water

Lesson1: Aim

• To understand the assignment.
• To get acquinted with the Dutch Landscape's history.
• To understand the role of water is regarding to the landscape.
• To understand why water should be managed in the Netherlands. 

Help, My Garden is Drowning

You wake up and you realise something is weird. Then you look out of the window and you see ...

What are you going to do?

What is so unique about the Netherlands?

God made the world and the Dutch made the Netherlands?

Ditches

Polders

Dykes

Canals

Terps

On this photo you see:

1. pumping station
2. polder
3. the afsluitdijk
4. terp

1.6 Sea Knocking at the Front Door

• Read through the text of lesson 1.6
• Familiarise yourself with the terms
• Do WB p.26-27, ex. 1,2,4,5,6 

Lesson 2 Aim:

- Students will familiarise themselves with lessons 1.5 & 1.6 of the textbook.

-Students will understand how the deltaworks work.

-Students will discuss rivers and bogs.

Make turns to explain the terms from the section, using the white board.

What caused the flood in 1953?

What is meant by: 'The sea is knocking at the front door and rivers at the back door?'

Name three major rivers that incease the risk of floods.

In which ways do the Dutch manage the water?

What on earth is this?

What is this?

Time to work.

Lesson 3: Aim

- Students will understand how glaciers, glacial debris and meltwater influenced the Netherlands' landscape.

Any idea what this is?

Where is this?

Where do the boulders and low hills in the Netherland come from?

Glaciers and Push Morraines

Why do you think the Dutch soil is so fertile?

What do you think is the future of the Netherlands?

What did you learn from this video?