Protecting Our City with Levees

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Description: Students design and build their own model levees.
Grade Levels: 6-8
Keywords: soil engineering, levee, flooding, human impact, Soils in Urban Environments
Lesson Area: Soils in Urban Environments
Resource Type: Lab Experiment

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
PreK-2 ESS3.B: Natural hazards In a region, some kinds of severe weather are more likely than others. Forecasts allow communities to prepare for severe weather.
3-5 ESS3.B: Natural hazards A variety of hazards result from natural processes; humans cannot eliminate hazards but can reduce their impacts.
6-8 ESS3.B: Natural hazards Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region and understanding related geological forces.
9-12 ESS3.B: Natural hazards Natural hazards and other geological events have shaped the course of human history at local, regional, and global scales.
6-8 ETS1.A: Engineering Design