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Pbs Learning Media: Avalanche Town

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The impact of natural disasters is made vivid in this video segment adapted from NOVA. A small town in Iceland, prepared for recurrent avalanches, is devastated when one takes a new and damaging path. [4:18]

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Concepts
avalanches
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deflecting wall, destructive snowslides, 1995 flateyri avalanche, flateyri avalanche, flateyri snowslides, flateyri, iceland, iceland avalanche, iceland snowslides, pbs learningmedia: avalanche town, teachers' domain, wgbh
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)