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Flood Risk Reduction Education Resources

Flood-related games for kids of all ages.

Educational Products

On this page, you will find links to two educational products to aid in demonstrating the importance of flood risk reduction.

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Please let us know if these tools help your classes and what else we can do to help teach the impact of flood risk reduction.

Building Clay Challenge: Constructing a Dam

Join U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District team members for an interactive activity that helps to explain how dams work using building clay.

image - Control reservoirs and more!

A Simulated Water Management Model (SWMM) user’s guide and four lesson plans, designed for teachers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.
These lesson plans include free-use modeling software and set of “games” to help teach these subjects. Right-Click each item and save the ZIP or PDF file.

User's Guide
Lesson 1 Physical Science	Lesson 2 Earth Science	Lesson 3 Physics	Lesson 4 Trigonometry

An Activity Book for younger kids to print and use to learn about flood risk and how to help their families prepare for the risk of flooding.

Activity Book (English) - download here
Activity Book (Spanish) - download here