Rivers, Streams & Canals

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K-12 TLC Guide to Rivers of China

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U.S. Rivers, International Rivers
Canals
Locks, Dams, Floods & Flooding
Estuaries, Waterfalls, Wetlands

Rivers, Streams & Canals
Rivers, Streams & Canals	The Hydrosphere: K-12 TLC Guide. American Whitewater. BBC: Global Warming Destablizes Freshwater Ecosystems. Fresh Waters of the Earth, University of California, San Diego. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Hydrology, The Great Lakes Information Network. The Hydrologic Cycle, University of Illinois. NASA: Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. The Water Cycle. National Public Radio (audio): 05/19/00 Fish Kill in the Kentucky River (4:00). 09/07/00: Freeze Dates Indicate Global Warming (3:30). National Rivers Hall of Fame. Rivers and Environment, Tennessee Valley Authority. Snaith Primary School, UK: Crossing Rivers. River Course. River Data. Rivers in Flood. Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, United States Department of Agriculture. Surface Water Runoff Modeling, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Surf Your Watershed. Visualizing The Great Lakes. Your River and Its Watershed. Water Resources of the United States, U.S. Geological Survey. Water, Snow and Ice, University of Alaska.
Rivers, Streams & Canals Canals	Mules: K-12 TLC Guide. Canal Society of Indiana. The National Canal Museum. Ohio Historical Society: Alfred Kelley. Canals. 07/20/1838: Workers Begin a Failed Attempt to Construct a Canal Between Michigan's Lake St. Clair and Lake Michigan, Michigan History Center. The Augusta Canal. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal: BikeWashington.org. Britannica. C&O Canal Association. Encyclopedia.com. GORP. Library of Congress. National Park Service.
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 10/10: Comparing the C&O and Panama Canals.
	The Erie Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. Lake Washington Ship Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. Manchester Ship Canal. Miami and Erie Canal: K-12 TLC Guide: The Panamá Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. The Suez Canal: K-12 TLC Guide. Whitewater Canal: K-12 TLC Guide:
Rivers, Streams & Canals Floods & Flooding	1899 Brazos River Flood: K-12 TLC Guide. 2005 Hurricane Katrina: K-12 TLC Guide. 2010 Rhode Island Flood: K-12 TLC Guide. 2010 Nashville, Tennessee: K-12 TLC Guide. 2010 Pakistan: K-12 TLC Guide. Flooding in Mozambique: K-12 TLC Guide. Vietnam Floods of 2000: K-12 TLC Guide. Dartmouth Floods Observatory, Dartmouth College. FEMA for Kids, Federal Emergency Management Administration. Flooding, The Weather Channel.com: Flood Climatology. Historical Floods. Flood Research. Flood Safety. Forecasting Floods. How Floods Occur. Floods!, PBS. National Public Radio: 06/10/2010 Arkansas Ouachita National Forest Flash Flood. Billion-Dollar Floodgates Might Not Save Venice. China, Pakistan Floods: Preventable Disasters? Climate Change Poses Threat to Colombian Coast. Eight Catastrophes That Changed America. Extreme Rains Linked to Global Warming. Flood Insurance (audio: 4:00). Flooding in New Jersey (audio: 2:55). Flooding in Thailand and Malaysia (audio: 4:00). Kids and Floods. Rains, Flooding Threaten Haiti's Most Vulnerable. Underwater City and Great Flood? (audio: 4:58). Natural Hazards, Canadian Government. Photo Essay: Rising Waters, The Flooding Mississippi, TIME (4/18/2001). Rivers in Flood, Snaith Primary School, UK. The Ups and Downs of Dams, National Geographic. *The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: 1945: German POWs Save South Dakota Bridge. Flooding Along the Missouri River. Noah's Flood. Teacher Lesson Plan*.
Rivers, Streams & Canals Floods & Flooding	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 09/21: Hurricanes.
Rivers, Streams & Canals Locks	Soo Locks: K-12 TLC Guide.
Rivers, Streams & Canals International Rivers	Rivers & Lakes of Canada, Teaching & Learning about Canada. Space Radar Images of Rivers, NASA. The Amazon: K-12 TLC Guide. Assiniboine River: K-12 TLC Guide. The Congo: American Museum of Natural History: HowStuffWorks.com. Living on Earth: Preserving the Congo Basin's Trees. National Geographic: Congo Trek. Monster Fish of the Congo. National Public Radio: River of Life - Congo Odyssey. Thinkquest. U.S. Geological Survey: Congo Field Trip. World Wildlife Federation. The Ganges: K-12 TLC Guide. Haihe River: K-12 TLC Guide. Inambari River: K-12 TLC Guide: Mekong River: International Rivers. Mekong River Commission. National Geographic. National Public Radio: As Mekong Rolls to the Sea, Turbulence On Its Banks. At Mekong's Source In China, Past And Present Collide. Cambodia's Fortunes Ebb and Flow Along the Mekong. Mekong Divides Different Worlds In 'Golden Triangle'. Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East. TIME. World Wildlife Federation: Protecting the River of Life from Source to Sea. An Unknown and Threatened Kingdom (pdf). The Niagara River & Niagara Falls: K-12 TLC Guide. The Nile: K-12 TLC Guide. Pearl River: K-12 TLC Guide. The Rio Grande: K-12 TLC Guide. The St. Lawrence Seaway: Britannica. Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum. Great Lakes Seaway Study. Hofstra University. International Water Law Project. St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. Teaching & Learning about Canada. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Volga: K-12 TLC Guide. Yangtze River: K-12 TLC Guide. Yukon River: Britannica. California State University Northridge. Canadian Council for Graphic Education. Canadian Encyclopedia. ExploreNorth.com. Gorp. National Park Service. Smithsonian Institution. Society of American Foresters. Texas A&M University. U.S. Geological Survey: Basin Studies. Water Quality. U.S. State Department: University of Guelph. Yukon Archives. Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association. Yukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council. Yukon River Panel. YukonInfo.com. YukonRiverQuest.com. The Yunnan Great Rivers Project, National Public Radio.
Rivers, Streams & Canals U.S. Rivers	2008 Kingston, Tennessee Coal Ash Spill: K-12 TLC Guide. Florida's Wild/Scenic Rivers, GORP. Kentucky Water Watch, State of Kentucky. The Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center, Penn State University. National Public Radio: Cleaning Up the Hudson River: (audio: 5:02). Crawfish Crowd AZ Lakes and Rivers: (audio: 2:45). The Los Angeles River: (audio: 14:15). Missouri River in South Dakota: (audio: 1:00). Restricting the Chattahoochee River: (audio: 4:15). Rubbing Delaware River Mud on Every Major League Baseball. Rivers of Colorado, Colorado Travel and Tourism Authority. *Smithsonian Magazine: America's 19th Century Highway: The River. Space Radar Images of Rivers, NASA. The Tennessee River System, Tennessee Valley Authority. Big Bend River. The Chattahoochee River: K-12 TLC Guide. Chattooga River: K-12 TLC Guide to South Carolina. National Public Radio (audio): 12/7/00: Georgia River Barge Flap (4:15). The Clinch River: K-12 TLC Guide. Colorado River: Hoover Dam: K-12 TLC Guide. Westwater Canyon: K-12 TLC Guide. 06/21/1845: Launched at Matagorda, Texas, the Kate Ward* Is the First Steamboat to Operate on the Colorado River , Texas State Historical Association. Lower Colorado Region, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Smithsonian Magazine: The Colorado River Runs Dry. The Columbia River: K-12 TLC Guide. Deschutes River: K-12 TLC Guide. Flathead River: K-12 TLC Guide. Gallatin River: K-12 TLC Guide. Indiana Rivers: K-12 TLC Guide. Jefferson River: K-12 TLC Guide. Madison River: K-12 TLC Guide. Minnesota River: K-12 TLC Guide. The Mississippi River: K-12 TLC Guide. Missouri River: Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery Gallatin River: K-12 TLC Guide. Jefferson River: K-12 TLC Guide. Madison River: K-12 TLC Guide. Bureau of Land Management. Coalition to Protect the Missouri River. History Channel. Missouri River Basin Association. Missouri River Energy Services. Missouri River Flooding, Mount Washington Observatory. National Park Service. National Weather Service. Papio-Missouri River Natural Resources District. Missouri River Relief. ThinkQuest. U.S. Army. U.S. Geological Survey. University of South Dakota. Montana Rivers: K-12 TLC Guide. The Ohio River: K-12 TLC Guide. Oregon Rivers: K-12 TLC Guide. Passaic River: K-12 TLC Guide. Platte River: K-12 TLC Guide. Potomac River: K-12 TLC Guide. Red River: Minnesota, North Dakota: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. North Dakota State University. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. University of Minnesota. Red River: Texas, Oklahoma: Red River Authority of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. The Rio Grande: K-12 TLC Guide. Saint Croix River Valley: K-12 TLC Guide. The Selway River: K-12 TLC Guide. The Snake River: K-12 TLC Guide. Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Texas Rivers: K-12 TLC Guide. Wabash River: K-12 TLC Guide. Willamette River: K-12 TLC Guide. Yelowstone River: K-12 TLC Guide**.
Rivers, Streams & Canals Estuaries	Land Forms: K-12 TLC Guide. Estuarine Research Federation. Estuary Live. George Mason University. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Esutaries.gov. Ocean and Costal Resource Management. Nature Works. Our South West. Restore America's Estuaries. Rivers & Estuaries Center. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Wikipedia. U.S. Esutaries: K-12 TLC Guide. The Dee Estuary. Derwent Estuary Program. Duddon Estuary Partnership. The Thames Estuary Partnership. Tijuana Estuary.
Rivers, Streams & Canals Waterfalls	EduSeek. Factmonster. Latvian State Geological Service. World Waterfall Database. Yellowstone National Park Waterfalls. Angel Falls: Venezuela: K-12 TLC Guide. Angel-Falls.com. Thinkquest. Venezuela Tourism. Wikipedia. Celilo Falls: K-12 TLC Guide. The Dalles: K-12 TLC Guide. Multnomah Falls: K-12 TLC Guide. Niagara Falls & Niagara River: 1965 NE U.S. Power Blackout: K-12 TLC Guide. 03/29/1848: The Day Niagara Falls Stopped: Library of Congress. *The Weather Notebook, Mount Washington Observatory: 04/30/1901: Annie Edson Taylor Is the First Person to Survive a Ride over Canada's Niagara Falls in a Barrel: State of Michigan: Fact Monster. Niagara Falls, Buffalo, The Stock Solution. Niagara Falls Premier Vacation Guide. Preservation of the Scenery Of Niagara Falls, Library of Congress. Writer's Almanac. Victoria Falls: Zambia: K-12 TLC Guide. Zimbabwe: K-12 TLC Guide. CNN Destinations. GORP. UNESCO. World Waterfall Database. Zambia Tourism*.
Rivers, Streams & Canals	All My Rivers Are Gone, Katie Lee, National Public Radio. Rivers, Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site. Primary: *Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe, Vera B. Williams: Amazon.com. Reading Rainbow. Young Adult: Down the Yukon, Will Hobbs. Downriver, Will Hobbs. The River, Gary Paulsen. River Thunder*, Will Hobbs.
	K-12 TLC Teachable Moments 05/08/1541: Hernando De Soto Is the First European to See the Mississippi River. 10/10: Comparing the C&O and Panama Canals.
	Grades K-12: Small Stream Ecosystem (pdf 650K), Lonnie Nelson, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Grades 4-6: Amazon Rainfall, Janet Bragg, Cherry Tree Elementary, Carmel Clay Schools. Grades 5-8: The Big River Ecosystem Teacher's Guide (pdf), Kentucky Afield for Teachers. Grades 9-12: A River Runs Through It, Thomas Quinn, Pacific High School, CA. Grade 10: Transportation and Alabama Rivers, Dr. Harvey H. Jackson III, Alabama Department of Archives and History. Other: Canals and Railroads Open Illinois (pdf), Lincoln Legal Papers.

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This guide last edited 12/26/2011
This guide last revised 02/04/2009