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Grades: 3, 5, 6, 8
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...
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Grades: 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Students design a mock archaeological site and simulate a survey using punch holes to represent shovel test pits. They then discuss the limitations of this method and explore how geophysics offers a...
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Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Students explore the concept of radioactive decay and half-life through a penny-flipping activity, then learn how this principle is used in radiocarbon dating to estimate the age of ancient organic...
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Grades: 8
Students build a miniature landscape in a sandbox and use tools to measure elevations at various points. By converting these measurements and coloring a graph, they create a 2D elevation model similar...
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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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Grades: Kindergarten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
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