Students design and build their own model levees.

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Discipline
Earth and Space Sciences
Grade Level
6-8
Lesson Area
Soils in Urban Environments
Lesson Type
Lab Experiment
Lesson Keywords
Soil Engineering
levee
flooding
Human Impact
Soils in Urban Environments

Next Generation Science Standards

Grade Discipline Core Idea
6-8 ESS3.B: Natural hazards

Mapping the history of natural hazards in a region and understanding related geological forces.
6-8 ETS1.A: Engineering Design