Lesson Overview
Students build model beaches and use waves to simulate coastal erosion, observing how it disturbs and destroys archaeological sites. They then explore engineering solutions to reduce erosion and discuss its impact on cultural heritage.
Essential Question
How can coastal erosion, a natural process exacerbated by human activity, threaten archaeological sites and the cultural heritage they contain?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
3, 5, 6, 8
Materials
• Heritage at Risk Activity Handout (one per student)
• Lab Equipment:
o Paint-Roller Trays, Clear Plastic Tubs can also work (one for each group)
o Dry measuring cup (to measure sand)
o Liquid measuring cup (to measure water)
o Sand (approximately five cups of sand for every group)
o Water (approximately six cups of water for every group)
o Stopwatch / Timer (one for each group)
o Paint Sir Stick for creating waves (one for each group)
o Ruler (one for each group)
o Small Rocks, about 1 -2 cm in diameter (two to four for each group)
o Wooden dowel rod, approximately 1 cm in diameter and 10 cm in length (one for each group)
o LEGO ® pieces, small blocks, or other props to mimic an archaeological site.
o Model trees, bushes, etc. can be used to delineate between the beach and maritime forest (optional)
o Goggles and aprons (optional)
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- 3.2.2.ER Identify and analyze the ways people interact with the physical environment in different regions of the state, the country, and the world.
- 8.1.CO Compare the three British North American colonial regions economically, politically, socially, and in regard to labor development.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the three British colonial regions developed in terms of their culture, economies, geography, and labor. The indicator was also developed to encourage inquiry into the unique story of the development of South Carolina.
- 8.1.CC Analyze the changes and continuities of the Native Americans' experiences prior to and as a result of settlement and colonization.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into Native American civilizations and cultures prior to European contact and their interactions with Europeans during the period of settlement and colonization, including their efforts to preserve their cultures.
- 8.1.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to examine multiple perspectives and influences of the economic, political, and social effects of South Carolina’s settlement and colonization on the development of various forms of government across the colonies.
- RI.MC.5 Determine meaning and develop logical interpretations by making predictions, inferring, drawing conclusions, analyzing, synthesizing, providing evidence, and investigating multiple interpretations.
- 5-ESS3-1. Evaluate potential solutions to problems that individual communities face in protecting the Earths resources and environment.
- 6-ESS2-2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth’s surface at varying time and spatial scales.
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Lesson Partners: South Carolina Department of Natural Resources