Rising seas and coastal erosion are eating away at the barrier island on which the Alaska Native Village of Kivalina rests. Residents and others are making concerted efforts to move the community to safety.

In this virtual resource, students will investigate the lithosphere, focusing specifically on conservation practices to improve soil quality. They will evaluate their school grounds, and sketch a plan to improve the soil health in their space.

The wakelet site features videos demonstrating hands-on activities for students to complete at school in small, socially-distanced settings. Activities may also be adapted for at-home learning. Some activities incorporate an outdoor component, acknowledging the need to balance screen time with green time to support mental health. Tips for taking your students outside can be found here: https://education.eol.org/cnc_materials/TipsForTeachingOutside.pdf

This lesson explores how the Earth?s landscape features change through forces of nature such as wind, water, glaciation, and volcanism.

A short article on how living shorelines utilize natural methods to slow coastal erosion within the Chesapeake Bay.

Students will observe and learn more about the different types of erosion by rotating through 4 different VR stations.Lesson Link

This is an encyclopedic entry for the term "silt." Silt is a solid, dust-like sediment that water, ice, and wind transport and deposit. Silt is made up of rock and mineral particles that are larger than clay but smaller than sand. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.