by Alice | Oct 8, 2024 | Educator Resource
A lab class for high school students on making and using a wave machine. Students will (1) build a wave tank, (2) create and discover when and how waves break, and (3) record their observations. In this process they will learn about ocean waves, particularly how they...
by Alice | Oct 8, 2024 | Educator Resource
A lab class for high school students on factors that affect the rate of stream table erosion. This lesson plan includes instructions for building your own stream table out of inexpensive materials likely to be available in rural Alaska communities.
by Alice | Oct 7, 2024 | Educator Resource
A lab class for high school students on factors that affect the rate of erosion. Students will conduct an activity where flowing water is placed on different materials to demonstrate differing rates of erosion.
by Natalie Osborne | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Lesson plan, including a brief hands-on demonstration, to introduce students to the idea of tectonic plates, subduction zones, and the story of one specific type of rock in southcentral Alaska.
by Natalie Osborne | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
This online curriculum includes middle school and high school coastal erosion units with student and teacher guides as well as units at lower grades to build understandings about how the Earth and landforms change as a result of the action of wind and water. Learning...