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Big Dam Resources

This section includes informational fact sheets about big dams on the Columbia and around the world. Click on Big Dam resources to your left and find images, documents, and video presentations from the day-long conference, “Reversing the Flow: Big Dams, Power, and People in Global Perspective.”

Power lines at Bonneville Dam, ca. 1950s. Image courtesy of Army Corps of Engineers

COLUMBIA BASIN DAMS

The Columbia River Basin, Physical Characteristics and History

Bonneville Dam and the Cascade Rapids

Grand Coulee Dam and Kettle Falls

The Dalles Dam and Celilo Falls

WORLD DAMS

The Amazon River Basin and the Tucurui Dam (South America)

The Narmada River and the Sardar Sarovar Dam (India)

The Volta River Basin and the Akosombo Dam (Ghana)

The Yangtze River and Three Gorges Dam (China)

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Columbia River Studies Curriculum | Educator/Teacher Resources

Columbia River Studies curriculum: An Integrated Course for High School students.

The Columbia River Studies class at Stevenson High School in Stevenson, Washington, was an interdisciplinary course that used science, history, mathematics, geography, technology, art, music, and literature to study a place.

Through studies in class and in the field, students learned about the Columbia River and practiced ways to gather and analyze information about specific places on the river. Individual projects take students into the field to study a place they care about and give them opportunities to study agencies, laws, and developments that have an effect on the landscape and on the natural and human communities that live on the river.